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Archive for May, 2008

Software blooper

Posted in Random, tagged , , on May 31, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Phone numbers aren’t supposed to be written in scientific notation

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Smiling Tambura

Posted in Music, Random, photography, tagged , , , , on May 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »

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Beautiful Soup

Posted in IIT, Linux, tagged , , , , on May 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Beautiful soup is indeed beautiful!
I wanted to parse an HTML page containing a table and import it into a MySQL table in an automated way. Upon my friend Kumar’s advice, I came to know about Beautiful Soup. Today was the day to explore Beautiful Soup. Being new to python, I had to do a bit [...]

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Photo Session

Posted in IIT, photography, tagged , , , on May 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »

Recently, some of us went around on a photographing spree. The subjects weren’t natural wonders or astronomical objects. They were professors. Yes. I tried my hand at taking professional portrait shots of professors for putting up on the department website. The idea was inspired by the photo on this webpage.
This was one of the shots [...]

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Drupal and Clean URLs

Posted in Linux, Tutorials, tagged , , , , , on May 10, 2008 | 5 Comments »

The default unclean URLs that Drupal provides with question marks lurking around, could be annoying. But it does offer an option to have clean URLs. I couldn’t find a neat tutorial to do this and this was not of great help either. So, let us see how to get this done.
Step 1
Check whether the rewrite [...]

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