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Technology, stuff about computers, software and boys toys.

Wordpress Skeleton

You're probably looking for the Wordpress skeleton theme. It's still here : skeleton.zip.

This theme is old, from 2007 I believe. It might even no longer work with the current Wordpress version. I recommend you find another Wordpress starter theme.

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Computational Linguistics

Where the fields of Computer Science and Linguistics meet.

Useful subjects:
• natural language processing
• artificial intelligence
• statistics
• machine translation
• text mining

From linguistics:
• phonology
• morphology
• semantics
• syntax

Also called
• Natural Language Technology
• Human Language Technology (companies)

Networks
• North America
∘ Linguistics society of America www.lsdadc.org
∘ North American Association of Computational Linguistics www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/naacl
• International

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Code

Small code snippets can be found on my Snipplr account.

I also wrote a Ruby library for handling various phonetic representations of Mandarin Chinese, it is called Pinyin.

I have a handful of projects sitting on my harddrive or in Subversion in various states of completion. These might show up here one day or another.

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Ting - Pinyin library for Ruby

Ting can convert between various systems for phonetically writing Mandarin Chinese. It can also handle various representation of tones, so it can be used to convert pinyin with numbers to pinyin with tones.

Hanyu Pinyin, Bopomofo, Wade-Giles, Tongyong Pinyin and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are supported.

For code examples visit the GitHub page.

Gems are hosted at GemCutter, so a simple "gem install ting" should do the trick.

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Getting subtitles in sync

As an early new years resolution I'll start with sharing more of the snippets I code up to make my life easier. Here's one : the SRT subtitle scaler. It's a little ruby script to sync subtitles with a movie. I don't know how often one needs this, but I got some English subtitles on-line for a Chinese movie and I just couldn't get them to properly line up with the movie.

Submitted by Arne on Sun, 12/23/2007 - 16:40
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Going Gutsy : installing the latest Ubuntu

A while ago the fabulous folks from Ubuntu released the latest version of their popular Linux distributions. The version number of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu is now up to 7.10 (being the year and month it was released). More often however Ubuntu versions are referred to by their alliterating nicknames. I'll go over my experiences upgrading from Feisty Fawn to Gutsy Gibbon.

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 11/14/2007 - 03:24
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Announcing ZhongWiki

Last week saw the launch of the first version of ZhongWiki. A wiki for people learning Mandarin Chinese. It's still in it's infancy, but I have a feeling it might become a great site and possibly a vibrant community.

Submitted by Arne on Sun, 10/14/2007 - 04:52
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Smile :-), it's your birthday

Last week the Smiley :-) turned 25. Happy birthday and congratulations! It was proposed by Scott E Fahlman in a post to a "Bulletin board" at Carnegie Mellon University the 19th of September 1982. Scott proposed its use to mark humorous or sarcastic remarks so they wouldn't be misunderstood.

These two pages have more info on the origin of the Smiley

Submitted by Arne on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 23:00
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Scratching my Flickr itch with Nitro

I have somewhat neglected my English speaking audience, I must apologise. I've recently moved to Taiwan to study Mandarin, and my travellers journal will mostly be published on the Dutch side of this blog.

Before I left to Taiwan my grandmother gave me a beautiful little camera, and I've been taking pictures like a madman and posting them to my Flickr account. I would like to include these pictures into my blogposts, but I would like to use a specific HTML template, so I can easily style them with CSS, like so :

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 18:43
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OPML export van Planet Ugent

De OPML export van Planet Ugent, het bestandje met de lijst van alle feeds die op de site weergegeven worden, bevat geen links, waardoor je er niet erg veel mee kan doen.

Langs deze weg wil ik dus graag deze bug rapporteren. Hopelijk wordt er iets aan gedaan. In afwachting heb ik er zelf maar eentje gemaakt. Zeer handig als je alle Planet Ugent feeds wil lezen in een feed reader a la Bloglines of Netvibes.

Submitted by Arne on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 23:13
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