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Month: October, 2008

Converting CP1252 to UTF-8

22 October, 2008 (17:05) | Geek Talk

I have written a small python script to selectively backup critical work files to a network drive. To reduce disk speed and backup times, I exclude many superfluous files based on their extension, including .svn directories. Recently, I discovered that the excellent 7-zip program now only reads UTF-8 text as an input list file. This [...]

Our trip to the Smokies

16 October, 2008 (13:53) | News

We left St. Louis on Thursday morning, September 25th. Thursday night was spent in the hot tub, easily the best feature of our rented cabin. It’s debatable what the worst feature of he cabin was; the extremely small shower, the complete lack of window coverings in the bedroom, or the Worst Bed Evar ™.

Recent Smokies trip photos added

11 October, 2008 (15:35) | News

I’ve added photos from our recent trip to the Smokies. I’ll be posting a full write up about it very shortly.