Monday, May 31st, 2004

How to use Markdown.pl on the Command Line

Use the --htmltags command-line switch to produce HTML output from a Unix-style command line. E.g.:

% perl Markdown.pl --htmltags foo.text > foo.html

Type perldoc Markdown.pl, or read the POD documentation within the Markdown.pl source code, for more information.

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Monday, May 31st, 2004

Steve Hoelzer’s Blog

Steve’s Blog has arrived. Some say he’s crazy, and I concur. Also, check his homepage, where he dabbles in CSS.

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Monday, May 31st, 2004

Face Detection

A pre-requistie for face recognition is face detection. The Robotics Institute at CMU has a great demo with my submission.

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Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Face Recognition

I’ve been working on face recognition for my ECE 432 computer vision class at NWU. Here’s some images I’ve been working with:

a montoage of the ALAN database

They come from some photos I took in class one day and from my dad’s student websites.

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Sunday, May 30th, 2004

Domain Name Registration

Just a quick note: dotster.com is good for domain name registration. You can do fun searches for what domain names are available.

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Saturday, May 29th, 2004

Fun at Navy Pier

We had a good time dining and visiting with our friends tonite at Navy Pier tonite.

Some “oil cans” of Fosters were consumed, and that led to discussions concerning the best movie of all time. The candidates included:

  • Forrest Gump
  • Rain Man (don’t these 2 always come up in similar discussions)
  • American History X
  • American Beauty
  • The Shawshank Redemption
  • Office Space
  • Old School
  • The Jerk (courtesy of Kris)
  • 12 Monkeys (the greatest movie ever)
  • Bandits & Zoolander (oops, dat’s Manda talkin)
  • L.O.T.R. (i can’t believe we forgot to discuss this)
  • help me menber de rest cuz I be forgettin now

Over & out.

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