PAPA'S CAVE – commonplace and hideaway
VMS Tutorials
Gathering references in preparation for working on my Alpha host account at Polarhome. Additional resources: http://www.polarhome.com:763/~papa/
- Giorgio P. Ingargiola, Kenneth B. Sall, John Fowler. VMS Mini-Primer. http://dg3.chemie.uni-konstanz.de/www/fb/prghlp/VMS_PRIMER.HTML accessed 2010/7/28.
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Blosxom Up and Down
Sjambak
Read 2010/7/1:
- Jack Vance. Sjambak. If Worlds of Science Fiction. July 1953. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/30002/30002-h/30002-h.htm accessed 2010/7/8.
This Crowded Earth
Ahead of its time in 1958, this novel's central theme of overpopulation is a crisis-du-jour whose time has come and gone. However, Bloch brings much more than that to the story: a very plausible portrayal of humanity trying to preserve the appearance of normality in the face of impending doom, unintended consequences to even the best-intentioned social engineering, and a judgement passed on the entire science fiction genre, which make the novel well worth the read. This is the first Bloch novel I've read, though his is a very well-known author and I have watched movies and television he has scripted (Psycho, Star Trek's Catspaw). Read 2010/7/7.
- Robert Bloch. This Crowded Earth. Amazing Science Fiction Stories. October 1958. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/25776/25776-h/25776-h.htm accessed 2010/7/8.
vcard.lisp parse-attribute
Incremental improvement to parse-attribute based on advice here:
(defun parse-attribute (string) (let* ((pos (position #\: string)) ; need to allow for lines w/out ":" (prop (subseq string 0 pos)) (val (subseq string (1+ pos)))) (setq *curr-card* (append *curr-card* (list (values (intern (string-upcase prop) "KEYWORD")) val))))) ; (values ...) and (string-upcase ...) necessary?
Once this works, next steps:
- derived properties (first name, last name)
- HTML dump (all records, properties)
- alternate prop. names in HTML listing
- list all properties
- CSV output (all records, selected & ordered prop's)
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