Bulk converting doc files into txt (or html)

By arafalov, on April 19th, 2008%

I have written about converting Microsoft Word files into text or html using OpenOffice before. However, the wizards I described in that article were crashing when the number of files crossed into several hundreds.

I have written some macros to do the conversion, but they were scary looking and fragile. Fortunately, I now found a tool that . . . → Read More: Bulk converting doc files into txt (or html)

4 comments   Computational Linguistics, My PhD research

Cooking sour grapes

By arafalov, on April 17th, 2008%

No, I am not complaining about food. I love food. And I love it different and – sometimes even – adventurous. Which is where Sour Grapes come in.

We have been walking around the neighborhood and have discovered Middle Eastern shop with some unusual but recognizable foods and some not-quite-recognizable ones. Our strategy with the . . . → Read More: Cooking sour grapes

4 comments   Weird Stuff