I recently needed to do some processing of some data in a text file within matlab where I needed to break up a given string based upon a number of delimiters. I produced the following function which can be used in MATLAB to split a string into a cell array of strings based upon a [...]
Read more →I’ve just released a small tool on CodePlex that lets you convert from a TeX bibliography (such as that done in JabRef) into an XML file that can be read with Word 2007. It’s called bib2Word07Xml and you can get it from http://www.codeplex.com/bib2Word07Xml, under the Releases tab. There are some limitations, these are documented on [...]
Read more →I’ve been trying to perfect my HTPC setup recently, the latest addition being a Logitech Harmony 555 remote which lets me control all my devices from one remote control. It’s based on activities like ‘Watch Sky’,‘Play XBOX 360’ and ‘HTPC’ and switches the appropriate inputs on my TV, amp, and other devices, and assigns the [...]
Read more →This follows on from an earlier post, Speech Recognition and the System.Speech namespace, where I was trying to find out roughly what the the topic of a given set of unannotated lectures was. As expected, using the DictationGrammar didn’t help too much, in fact some of the results from the recogniser were pretty funny! So [...]
Read more →It was so on the cards but it looks like we’ll all be able to get a bit of Windows 7 action tomorrow (9/01), with a public beta for what looks to be the first 2.5 million people! I’ll be checking http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ periodically Bookmark
Read more →I’ve just recently signed up with a new web host (Weycrest) to take over the hosting of my blog, and they utilise the Plesk control panel for administering the thing. I was with Dreamhost before and I had created several sub-domains of paulkiddie.com that act to redirect to another page but I couldnt for the [...]
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