My brother recently purchased an iMac … finally got to talk to one of my family members using video conferencing … only 28 years after getting my first computer
Just finished watching the Doctor Who Christmas special which alas is the end for one of my favorite doctors, David Tennat
I have now been watching Doctor Who since the late seventies!
Went to a party at my friends house in South Melbourne.
hmm. … backups … you should always check backups before depending on them.
I backed up my site from my previous hosting company assuming it had copied all the folders where my wordpress installation was … all the misc stuff like images, etc
guess what, it didn’t !
thank goodness for my SQL backup which retained all my posts and comments, but alas, no images, no wordperss themes.
So next time, I will do what I did when I worked in IT, check the backups work before you need them
Update Jan 1, 2010
All is well, the “home directory” of my web site was archived in a single tar file … 
saved!
and I now have a backup of my website off line !
I purchased a new bike on Saturday, went a little over budget so I walked into the city (8km), picked it up and was riding home and I got a bloody nail through the tyre, so another 4 km walking 
So far, I like it. It is very responsive, easy to accelerate.
My goal with the bike is to lose 20kg over the Australian summer and build a good physical base.
My new bike, except it has a white seat
My bike fully loaded ready to go to Blanket bay last week, so pretty
Upon my return, it included extra protein, in the form of bugs, lots of bugs
Got back safety from my trip to Blanket Bay last weekend, But alas, as I was hooning down the alley behind my apartment I must have run over some glass, $50 !
This Saturday I went on my first big ride, a 500km round trip from Melbourne to Blanket Bay (near Apollo Bay).
Some pictures are up on my Flickr account ==> http://www.flickr.com/photos/hucker/sets/72157622332954407/
PDFMiner is a suite of programs in python that help extracting and analyzing text data of PDF documents. Unlike other PDF-related tools, it allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well as other extra information such as font information or ruled lines. It includes a PDF converter that can transform PDF files into other text formats (such as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that can be used for other purposes instead of text analysis.
I downloaded a PDF from work which has my call stats in tabular form. It worked great.
[25] 21:56:47–> pdf2txt.py -t html test.pdf > test.htm
/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/pdfminer-20091004-py2.6.egg/pdfminer/pdfparser.py:8: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import md5, struct
My project is to:
1. Email my weekly stats from work.
2. Construct a python program to read the data into a temporary textfile
3. Extract the data into a SQLite file
4. Produce statistics graphs on my average call times.
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