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April 12th, 2009
11:37 pm - scanning books
I've been wanting to join Library Thing, but didn't feel like manually entering scores of books. But I have an Android G1, which comes with a camera and a barcode scanner, and LT imports ISBNs! Only, the scanner application doesn't record its results anywhere(?), so the information isn't readily available.
So: a few hours of finally learning how to program this thing*, and I have a tool that integrates with the scanner (yay Intents!), keeps scanning continuously, and writes the results to an sqlite database, which you can then ship off via email (yay Intents) to yourself and copy-paste to Library Thing.
Totally straightforward, sure, but fun and hopefully useful to others as it was to me. I'll polish this up a bit before releasing it.
* Ugh, hardy only has Eclipse 3.2, which is no longer supported by the ADT; and the ADT took three hours to install. Other people didn't have this problem though, so it may have been bad luck.
Current Music: Love - Forever Changes
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February 18th, 2005
10:52 pm - Chess to MIDI
This guy wrote a small tool that converts a transcript of a Chess game into music set in the key of F.
The really interesting thing is that I've been listenning to some Fischer games this morning, and I'm hearing some very similar patterns toward the end-game.
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December 23rd, 2004
10:24 am - stealth programming
A charming, amazingly cool story about a consultant whose project in Apple was canceled. He didn't want to see his work going down the drain, and still having his door badge, crept into the building and kept working on it, getting the help of engineers, QA personnel, and other people. This Really HappenedTM.
(Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) lauralemay.)
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November 21st, 2004
09:26 pm - audio shaker
Tristan Tzara lives!
(Via edge_feed. The longer clip is recommended.)
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October 28th, 2004
09:27 pm - mad, mad, mad
- I finished The Baroque Cycle today. Nice. Very nice.
- A comment
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) brad made in his journal brought me to these charming pics by eli.
“Taylor and I figured that it’d taken us about 15 hours. And yes, we realize that all this work is just going to melt away.......but not until June.”
- Some dude is backporting GTA3 to Nintendo.
Current Music: The Beatles - White Album
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October 15th, 2004
12:12 pm - hackaday
hackaday has some cool linkage. For example:
Current Music: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
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