I’ve been (slowly) making my way through FOSDEM `23 presentations and caught up to Peter Lowe‘s “Bizarre and Unusual Uses of DNS • Rule 53: If you can think of it, someone’s done it in the DNS” talk. DNS oddities are items I collect whenever I see them, and while I knew about a good… Continue reading
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Getting Fit2Tcx Working on Mac OS X (10.9.x)
Andreas Diesner’s `#spiffy` [Fit2Tcx](https://github.com/adiesner/Fit2Tcx) command-line utility is a lightweight way to convert Garmin/ANT [FIT](http://www.thisisant.com/resources/fit) files to [TCX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Training_Center_XML) for further processing. On a linux system, installing it is as simple as: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andreas-diesner/garminplugin sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fit2tcx On a Mac OS X system, you’ll need to first grab the `tinyxml` package from… Continue reading
Scraping Content From Google Groups
I was helping a friend out who wanted to build a word cloud from the text in Google Groups posts. If you’ve made any efforts to try to get content out of Google Groups you know that the only way to do so is to ensure you subscribe to the group posts via e-mail, then… Continue reading
Christian Science Monitor Text Layout (Single Page Full Article View)
As I was about to “buffer” a reference to a CSM article on “cyber war” (below), I paused to look for a “print view” or some other icon that would let me show the whole article as a single page vs the annoying multi-page layout view they normally are presented in (which also doesn’t work… Continue reading