Archive for February, 2007

The dismal science turns to comedy.

Funny translation (YouTube) of the 10 principles of economics for the layman by a stand-up economist. I guess comedy was more lucrative.

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What are your secret ingredients?

Nice thread over at parenthacks talking about secret ingredients for quick cooking. I think I am salivating already.

Monogram.org lives again

We now have four, count them, four blogs linked to the monogram.org main page. We have it set up so anyone who wants a blog can have their own wordpress installation that they can manage. Then all of their posts will be aggregated on the main monogram.org blog. Basically the monogram.org blog just points back to your personal blog for any comments people leave. Any of you long-time monogramers who would like to have a blog back, let me know.

Paperback Swapping…Brilliant!

I just joined PaperBackSwap and already have a few books that have just been collecting dust that others want. I am getting a few myself. What a great way to create an economy where the currency is books.

Testing imified

Just testing imified to see how easy it is to IM blog entries to the blog. Woot…it works.

Download Gmail Attachments

Here is a bit of code I put together using libgmail and python to download the attachments of all emails with a given label in my gmail account. It is pretty simple and the libgmail library can enable you to do the same thing for emails in a certain folder, or emails as the result of a certain search term. The code isn’t incredibly robust, but it gets the job done.

I call mine getatt and it run it like this:

getatt mylabel

It then drops each attachment out as a separate file in the current directory. I use it for grading I have to do for an undergraduate class where I am getting hundreds of emails a week with attachments I have to grade.

Python Code: getatt