Tag Archives: Projects
InterAlta
George wants to look at hyperlink networks between countries, using AltaVista. Others have done this, but I was very resistant. It seemed to me that AltaVista probably had significant deficits in terms of non-English pages, as well as coverage generally. Furthermore, I wasn’t sure you could trust the “we found 34,222,534 links” stuff. Further yet, […]
Scraping Homeland Security
“Scraping” content from web pages means trying to guess at where the content is and making it usable. It’s what the NetFlix plug-in for MT does. After installing the NetFlix plug-in, I decided to adapt it to scrape the Homeland Security Advisory System page over at the Department of Homeland Security. Unlike the Buffalo weather […]
More Scripts Online
Slowly bringing over all the scripts I had up on the old server. I have put up the I++ Ching 404 Page, as well as the long-awaited new appointment sign-ups. I should be able to finish off my backlog of emails by tomorrow morning. Hooray! On the down-side, it turns out Slashdot has changed the […]
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