20

Aug

Cryptozoology

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Cryptozoo-what? Yes, the “science” of studying such fictional, mythical beasts such as the Loch Ness monster, the Yeti etc…has a real name. I’ve been fascinated by such stuff ever since reading Tintin in Tibet as a kid. In any case, two stories about the Yeti of late have garnered a lot of interest and media [...]

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14

Aug

She sells Shell Scripts on the Sea Shore

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Recently, I had to parse data in several text files and calculate averages. From these averages, I had to create a chart. So I could either write a program using a real language like C or Perl or something, or even worse, copy and paste each value into a spreadsheet and then go from there. [...]

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