Category Archives: Technical

So with my school database that generates a word document for Final Report for students, it hit a wall with narrative/comments from teachers that's over 255 characters long. Instead of complaining long winded commentaries, I just had to fix this. … Continue reading →

Looks like there's a hole in the soffit near the mudroom. Critters/birds? movement could be heard in the mudroom on the ceiling sometimes. I went out from the master bedroom's window all the way to the roof of the mudroom, … Continue reading →

First of all, to preview word/excel, etc. in Outlook, the Office apps must be all in the same version, so said google. Solution: Now, for PDF preview, Office/Outlook does not provide this, it's said to be provided by Adobe. Therefore, … Continue reading →

Of course, nothing can escape Snipping Tool screenshot. But what about the shortest way to convert to a pdf document file? Because Google Drive somehow, giving the ability to restrict viewers from downloading if the owner so chooses, convert the … Continue reading →

It seems that some app is changing the hotkeys I set for Chinese/English input. This solution that apparently helps is: After setting the hotkeys, go to Region > Administrative > Copy Settings... > check all.

We did oil change today, at Edison Pep Boys (the one nearest to us in South Amboy was understaffed and they refused service, hence no Bubba meal). We ate at Penang Restaurant, drinks from Gongcha. They were supposed to get … Continue reading →

Boolean Indexing - passing a series of list that satisfy the specified boolean condition. The operator &, | instead of AND, OR, are the only ones that work with boolean indexing here because it's an element-wise (like bit-wise operators) operator … Continue reading →

Since Hostmonster (NYGC) cannot really catch up with the new Python, I could only do Python, the older version, via cgi-bin. And use PHP's exec('python test.py'); to do the trick. test.py's permission would have to be set to 755. I've … Continue reading →

So there was Web Scraping with Python, but what I want is the other way around: Python to html. So the answer to that is DJANGO or FLASK, server side service. Hostmonster seems to be rather outdated with Python support; … Continue reading →