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Interesting Writing Software

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Thanks for visiting.
欢迎关林来！I came across this site today, and thought it might be useful for recording day to day items or homework because of the many dimensions that it tracks about each item written. It’s free software, specifically targeted at creative writing. It also (somewhat) handles Unicode. I’ve tried it out with both [...]

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Google as a poor man’s OCR

Friday, February 13, 2009

I was reading a couple days ago a post comparing different OCR programs. Turns out that Google’s own proprietary OCR engine is often better under some circumstances. It seems they’ve adjusted it to use specific handling for many more use cases.
So, I’ve scanned the first two pages of my upcoming semester book. You can read [...]

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One Laptop per Child and fast browsing

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Here’s a little different viewpoint on the OLPC XO program, from a web browser performance perspective.
This guy works at Google (near the top, btw) and normally writes about optimization, but this small blog entry deals with the OLPC XO program, so I thought it would be interesting regardless.
Of course, if you’re into fast browsers <smile> [...]

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Hardware Migration Update 1

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Hopefully there won’t be more than one update!
The first site migration failed to migrate any of the email aliases (names), so I wasn’t getting any email to panlogicsoftware.com that originated from outside of the box.
To make it a little less obvious, I did get emails that the new hardware box sends out by itself. Since [...]

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Migrated to new hardware

Friday, January 23, 2009

The site, which includes both this blog, and my site with Chinese texts for download (http://china.panlogicsoftware.com/ebooks.html) and other stuff, has been sucessfully moved to new hardware.
It’s been working for a couple hours now, so hopefully within 48 hours (max time for DNS record propogation), it will be acessable by everyone.
Let me know if you have [...]

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