Saturday, October 17, 2009

Replacing O2 Sensor Yukon

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I went to see him in weeks. A very interesting film, for two reasons: one because, despite being a science fiction film tries to give a strong message about the issues of immigration and racism, the other for the technique is made, a mix of cinema and documentary, similar to other titles that have had some success: "The Blair Witch Project," "Cloverfield", "REC" and the more recent "Diary of the Dead" by George Romero, as yet unpublished in Italy.
Like the aforementioned films, this one uses a massive viral campaign (the site of MNU, the blog of an alien political dissident) that constitute if you wish, an in-depth than the main plot and not just promotional.
The film relies on the production of Peter Jackson and Weta Digital special effects (the same as "The Lord of the Rings") and in fact the images that portray the alien ship "parked" over Johannesburg are realistic and convincing.
The choice of Johannesburg as the scene of the story is not accidental: it is indeed the symbol of apartheid. What happened between the first white men and blacks, now takes place between humans and aliens. The implicit message is that racism and discrimination of "different" seems to be a constant in human history, and whenever we can no longer hit an enemy one looks for a new one, let there be. The films range
seamless clips from documentaries, amateur footage, images of television news, interviews, and filming "classic" to give a multifaceted view of each other.
The plot is well constructed all in all: we do not have the classic protagonist who is on the side of the righteous and the oppressed (in this case the "prawns" aliens), but all in all a person is mean and vile.
However, events in which finds himself, against his will radically change the (sounds like a cliché, but trust me, this time it's very appropriate!)
Another theme that emerges "between the lines," is the manipulation of information in and instrumental political ends. Want to avoid alarming the population, or to bury responsibility, or greed of power and money, the media have an official version of reality but is counterfeit than real, and that we viewers know why we are also presented the unfolding the story from the perspective of the protagonist.
Although I liked it is clear that this is not a film appreciated by anyone, especially those expecting the classic science fiction movie mainstream.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Cellulitis Of The Genitalia

Regular ...

10 days of silence and, unfortunately, few new elements. The software I'm developing is basically the point of a few days ago. Also because of a loss of data that I reported the situation around the end of September. Now I'm rewriting the code being closer every day to save the changes, so as to prevent spills. But I am confident in one thing: to return to the same place as before, probably will take less time, and the result will be better, it often happens when you are to rewrite some code already done.
I still can not set a date for a public release, I have to go a little 'later. I must also try to focus my energies on those that are the essential features (post export) even if the temptation is to make a full-featured software "extras" that could still serve.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Leather Bible Engraved

Splinder Exporter .... we're almost

After thinking a bit 'much thought I decided to change approach, and I was inspired to that followed by those who have made a plugin to import a Wordpress blog on Splinder.
template editing is required, but not particularly invasive, in that it adds a bit of code silently.
However, this is a good solution that has already yielded positive results. However when I try it only with my blog, just because we need a change to the template.
soon publish the code needed to test Splinder Exporter on your blog, by the time I still need to make small adjustments.
say however that for hours I can successfully import the posts, with title, date, time and content. Missing for now importing the comments (but I'm working) and also still do not keep track of the authors (useful for group blogs).
Another thing that is missing (but that can be resolved soon) are the tag.

Among other things, there are several issues that came to my mind when I developed the code:
  • would be useful to convert internal links Splinder internal link in Blogspot. I just have to see if it is feasible.
  • Another nice thing would be to offer advanced features such as import only a portion of the post, with certain criteria (before / after a certain date, for example). To hours concentrate only on that basis.

What Does A First Menstruation Look Like

Become an expert of computer in 1 minute

Since computer "professional" even though I'm still attending the University ', people often call me' cause it problems. Here's how I usually fix things:
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Source: http://xkcd.com/627/

Congratulations, you too have become experts d ' Computer!
Incidentally, the degree course in Computer certainly did not teach me how to solve the problems of everyday life with computers (Internet connection is wrong, as the Word format a text, bla bla bla ...). These are all things you can learn a bit 'of passion and experience. Above all, if we do not succeed does not mean that we are incapable, but simply and 'something you can' fix in 5 minutes searching on Google.
PS I do not blame anyone, just that I happened on this cartoon and I think that describes perfectly the situation in which I often am.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Why Is There Metal Around Trees In Hawaii

Small turning point uphill

In the previous post I said that there were difficulties in importing the data. Well, I added a small piece that has improved the situation considerably. There is an open source library called HTML Tidy, and just serves to "clean up" the ill-formed HTML code. It was originally written in C.
This library is used by a Python binding (ie a library that acts as "glue" between two languages, in this case C and Python) named μTidylib .
I tried it on my blog e. .. Well, the results are very good. I solved the problems I had when reading data. I tried with a handful of blogs selected at random, I can not say the same.
Tidy library to read and can not successfully convert the HTML code, and returns an empty file instead of the page cleaned up.
Unfortunately this time we are faced with a problem I had in a sense, feared, and that is that we were dealing with bad HTML format so heavy. What I do not is expected that the situation was so widespread. The only other blog that I could parse correctly is one that uses the same template that I use.
do not know who is to blame, if the browser is too permissive with regard to the most serious errors in the HTML pages rather than the little information with regard to issues such as W3C validation, the fact is that I am losing a lot of time to correct mistakes made by others, to ensure maximum compatibility.
I do not know which way to catch, if groped to give maximum compatibility correcting errors "downstream" or leave the burden to users to correct errors in the template.
In any case remains a last beach: change the template with a "minimal", that guarantees to eliminate up to its mistakes. If I turn
publish a small "gallery of horrors."