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 . . . →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