Mekk's programming notes

Scrap email addresses from GMail inbox (or other folder)

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:30:25 +0100

Recently I happened to obtain quite a few emails in case of which I wanted to preserve To or Cc list members in my addressbook. GMail interface makes it easy to do it for a few addresses, but very tedious when there are a lot of them (every address must be clicked separately).

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From Serendipity to Blogofile and Disqus

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:31:00 +0100

I just converted this blog from Serendipity to Blogofile, and I am in the process of converting my bigger and more important Polish blog. The news as such is not particularly important (although I would appreciate a warning in case I spoiled something), but I think that the scripts I wrote to aid the conversion may be of use for somebody.

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WatchBot migrated

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:31:00 +0100

To resolve the disconnection problems I migrated mekk.waw.pl to another Linode datacenter, now it is operating from London. So far it seems that it helped, not a single disconnection during first day of work (while from Newark there were a few connection breaks an hour).

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WatchBot disconnections and my attempts to resolve the problem

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:57:36 +0100

You could notice that, since December, WatchBot started to have connectivity problems. The most visible effect is that a lot of games are splitted into many separate parts in spite of the fact that no adjournment by players took place.

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Yet another Python client for RememberTheMilk

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:45:20 +0100

I started using RememberTheMilk more seriously, faced some limitations, decided to script over them and, in the result, my previously described module evolved to mekk.rtm.

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Migrating data from Nozbe to RememberTheMilk

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:27:11 +0200

In the past I wrote some helper tools for Nozbe, but today I am telling this service good bye. Short explanation why can be found below, but mainly I publish this article to describe how I moved my projects and actions from Nozbe to RememberTheMilk.

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Calibre scripts updated to handle Calibre 0.7.* and refactored for more natural installation

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:54:05 +0200

Important update to my Calibre scripts (described previously here and here):

Calibre 0.7.* is supported and should work,
installation and distribution method has completely changed, the package is now available from pypi, so can be easy_install-ed.

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Special marks for comments and quick search

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:32:57 +0200

Two small updates to the WatchBot website:

whispers made by the people playing the game are marked with different background color,
new quick search option is present in the sidebar.

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Calibre utils update

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Mon, 17 May 2010 22:13:45 +0200

Some updates to my Calibre helper scripts (which I described previously here): ISBN guessing script covers wider range of file formats, there are also two new scripts: one converts all .doc files to .rtf, another one crosschecks disk directory against Calibre database and reports documents not registered by Calibre.

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Game search improvements

nospam@example.com (Marcin Kasperski) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:45:47 +0200

A few small, but possibly useful improvements of the WatchBot search. It is now possible to search games by the result, use any rating ranges, and limit search to games commented by at least a few players.

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