Monday, June 30, 2008

Blue Mts next weekend

It looks like the city's minimum temperature is the same as Katoomba's maximum…

Monday, June 23, 2008

Letter frequency in Pride and Prejudice

Playing with Wordle (where I can make my own word clouds) is fun but I see it as being a short lived fad. In the meantime I'm coming up with other pays to play with it.

So, I decided to take Pride and Prejudice (the text of which I had just downloaded), replace all the letters with the same letter followed by a space (i.e "a" goes to "a ") in order to separate them, then put the result into Wordle…

Yes, I am still studying, why do you ask?

Anyway, this is what it came up with:

Saturday, June 21, 2008

Pride and Prejudice (abridged)

Wordled essays

In case you were wondering what I was doing at uni… Here are the two essays that I just wrote (both about Xinjiang in north-west China):




This blog

Psychodougie pointed me towards Wordle. I tested it out by pasting in all the text from this blog. Well, I did cheat a little by getting rid of "comments" and "categories" (and adding "Katrina" since she was sitting next to me as I did it). Fun?

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Celebrating our undecimensary

Katrina made lovely eggs benedict and banana smoothies. I tried using the coffee machine for the first time (I need more practice). And it was a lovely sunny morning for sitting outside.