Peterbe.com

Have you ever heard of the film Story of an Unknown Actor or at least the soundtrack called Film Music?

I heard one of the songs on the radio the other day. Despite never having heard it before I fell for it immediately. Quickly I scribbled down the name and went immediately to Amazon.co.uk and IMDB.com to look for it. Sadly they're out of stock on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com and having Googled a bit for it I suspect now that I won't be able to buy a copy online. One source said the album is out of print, meaning they're not producing any more.

Thus, if you have a copy, are you willing to sell it to me somehow?

Classic Movie Scripts is a site that hosts a long lists of, unsurprisingly: movie scripts. The list isn't very long but keep it in mind, it might grow. I was happy to find the script to Annie Hall by Woody Allen. One of my favourite films of all times. This is taken from Annie Halle:

                       ALVY 
       Tsch, I know.  A relationship, I think, 
       is-is like a shark, you know?  It has 
       to constantly move forward or it dies. 
               (He sighs) 
       And I think what we got on our hands 
               (Clearing his throat) 
       is a dead shark.

This really takes you back. I found only two computers on that site that I've owned; the Commodore C64 and the Amiga 500

One thing that makes me wonder, what kind of productivity can you at all reach with a keyword like this

I don't know why but I felt very compelled to just read one comic after the other. Can't tell if this Michelle actually exists in reality but I'll imagine so anyway. She tells the story of her unexpected work experience at a psychiatric ward as a third-year medical student.

Don't miss this. It's cute and positively inspiring.

In my latest work stuff I have a custom debugger module that prints the SQL statements used to stdout. To make the debug output more readable I whipped together this quick script that pretty prints SQL statements with hopefully correct case and indentation. It converts something ugly like this:

select * from foo order by bar;

into this:

SELECT
  *
FROM
  foo
ORDER BY bar;

Try with your own SQL statements

I have a degree in mathematics and computer science, but still I don't know why different programming languages evaluate Integer/Integer differently. On any calculator if you divide one integer with another you get a decimal number (of course not if the numerator is a factor of the denominator).

Python for example returns a integer number:

>>> print 3/10
0
>>> print 3/10.0
0.3

Perl on the other hand returns a decimal number:

print 3/10;  print "\n";
print 3/10.0;
...gives...
0.3
0.3

PostgreSQL is like Python:

database=# SELECT 3/10 AS quotient1, 3/10.0 As quotient2;
quotient1 |       quotient2
-----------+------------------------
        0 | 0.30000000000000000000

And good old MS Excel gives:

=3/10  <=> 0.3

Why is it so?

Oystercard for those who don't know is the modern ticketing system used in London. It's a "swipe" card you can use on buses and the underground.

Anyway, I registered on their website today and it starts like any other registration form with the desired username and password. When I submitted the first form it gave me an error message shown in this picture

All you need is a photo and Photoshop. Obviously you need a pair of 3-D glasses. Where do you get hold of a pair? Well, next time a pair is included in a popular science magazine or something, I'll buy the magazine just to get the glasses.

Anyway, this NASA JPL article explains how to do the Photoshop bit. It doesn't look very hard to do. First I just need to get a pair of glasses.

Wanna know what words are most commonly used in the English language? Well, look at this site then I was surprised to see that "in" was more common than "it" or "is".

I'm envisioning a input form which asks initially for a date on a calendar. The next question is duration, or how long from that date. The input for this must be clever. So now I've put together a little script that adds numerically what someone enters in English.

The "problem" is what do you do when you add "1 month" when incrementing the month number is not enough? This program does like this: 2004-08-31 + 1 month = 2004-09-30.

Please have a try of my little program and let me know what you think