Last.fm python wordle. Fun with pylast

That’s sort of a visualization of the top tracks I’ve listened to and reported back to Last.fm. I’ve been wanting to do more research in the webservices area in anticipation of doing a larger collective intelligence type project, so when my friend Mark mentioned this python script called pylast I thought I’d try it out.
The [...]

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Randomizing a list of 25 things using Python

I got tagged in the oh-so popular “25 Random Things” meme on Facebook. To make a point that I sometimes think in code and I don’t think its weird, I wrote the script below to randomize my list before I posted it.

import random

f = open(‘25-things.txt’)
list = f.readlines()
“”"Magnus L Hetland’s solution http://bit.ly/uN4iq”"”
result = []

for i [...]

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Save PDF Web Receipts Folder – Change Default – 10.5

This hint provides information on modifying the OS X “Save PDF Web Receipts Folder” work-flow that’s attached to the print dialog, but it is for 10.4 only.
I never like having a “Web Receipts” folder at the top of my “~/Documents”, I’d prefer they we kept in a sub-folder, e.g. (“~/Documents/Personal/Web \Receipts/”). Well, the above hint [...]

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