List of all 1446 Mandarin syllables extracted from this hanzi input table for cxterm:
http://www.all-day-breakfast.com/chinese/big5-PY.tit
Javascript Pinyin to ASCII transliterator
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Guignol et poney aux Buttes Chaumont et ailleurs à Paris
Guignol aux Buttes c'est à 16h ou 17h.
Et le poney c'est mercredi, samedi, dimanche, jours feriés et vacances scolaires entre 15h et 18h.
Guignols & spectacles pour enfants - Paris.fr
Guignol - par les Petits Bouffons de Paris ! - Le Théâtre Guignol Anatole
guignol19's blog - Le Guignol de Paris - Famille RANK - Skyrock.com
Les promenades à poney - Paris.fr
Et le poney c'est mercredi, samedi, dimanche, jours feriés et vacances scolaires entre 15h et 18h.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Making Zhongwen.com more web-accessible
I like Zhongwen.com, which is wonderful and was way ahead of its time, cleverly avoiding character-set hell with image maps. But it could be more linkable.
With this bookmarklet, you can quickly look up a character etymology via its sound:
Lookup pinyin in Zhongwen.com for 漢字 etymology
These etymologies, inaccurate or fanciful as some of them may be, are great if you are looking for a way to remember a character.
I wish a lookup would produce the full Zhongwen.com site view, with all the frames, including general info and links, not to mention ads.
At some point I'd like to get in touch with the author Rick Harbaugh to see if there's a better way to link to his site.
Examples of etymologies:
聽 tīng - to listen = ear + virtue = heart + straight = ten + eyes (see true)
漢 Hàn - Chinese = water + clay = yellow + earth
法 fǎ - law = as water goes = secret earth (ok that last is my fancy from the MDBG character decomposition)
UPDATE May 9th: I recently realized Skritter links to Zhongwen.com via the Big5 version of a character:
勞 láo
With this bookmarklet, you can quickly look up a character etymology via its sound:
Lookup pinyin in Zhongwen.com for 漢字 etymology
These etymologies, inaccurate or fanciful as some of them may be, are great if you are looking for a way to remember a character.
I wish a lookup would produce the full Zhongwen.com site view, with all the frames, including general info and links, not to mention ads.
At some point I'd like to get in touch with the author Rick Harbaugh to see if there's a better way to link to his site.
Examples of etymologies:
聽 tīng - to listen = ear + virtue = heart + straight = ten + eyes (see true)
漢 Hàn - Chinese = water + clay = yellow + earth
法 fǎ - law = as water goes = secret earth (ok that last is my fancy from the MDBG character decomposition)
UPDATE May 9th: I recently realized Skritter links to Zhongwen.com via the Big5 version of a character:
勞 láo
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
for a Wikipedia page for Opa?
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Todd and Progs
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Tab dump via Chrome extension
OK I wrote a Chrome extension to dump my tabs quickly, here's the result:
On Stones in Japan, Tsunami Warnings — Aneyoshi Journal - NYTimes.com
gittutorial(7)
icking-music-archive.org/scores/bach/bwv_anh114/Menuet_bwv_anh114_fing.pdf
htty, the HTTP TTY
AEI - The State of White America
Learning to Love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media - Magazine - The Atlantic
angry chicken: homemade bean burgers
Web 2.0 Development and Business Lessons: You Don't Know JavaScript
What to do with Okara (Milking the Soy Bean, Part 3) | Just Hungry
Microsoft's Odd Couple | Business | Vanity Fair
How to Read the Source Code of Chrome and Firefox Extensions « God, Your Book Is Great !!
Credits: to make my extension, I mostly copied the Frank Yan's (I think) nice Tab Menu extension.
I wish I could have used something like Blog This, but that extension kind of sucks, because the underlying Blogger functionality kind of sucks. Maybe I can use the Blogger API to make it more automatic.
Tab Menu - Chrome Web Store
Blog This! (by Google) - Chrome Web Store
Developer's Guide: Protocol - Blogger APIs - Google Code
Tutorial: Getting Started (Hello, World!) - Google Chrome Extensions - Google Code
Credits: to make my extension, I mostly copied the Frank Yan's (I think) nice Tab Menu extension.
I wish I could have used something like Blog This, but that extension kind of sucks, because the underlying Blogger functionality kind of sucks. Maybe I can use the Blogger API to make it more automatic.


Sunday, April 17, 2011
location autocomplete
Google Maps API v3 Geocoder Tool
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/v3-geocoder-tool.html#q%3D2500%20KYUSTENDIL%26country%3DBG
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/822b416df3d19bfa
jQuery plugin to autocomplete location using Google Maps v3 API and Google Static Maps v2 API
http://code.google.com/p/geo-autocomplete/
http://geo-autocomplete.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demo/ui.demo.html
reverse geocoding demo: click on map, get detailed address
http://demos.projectx.co.nz/gmaps3/reverse_geocoder.html
Google Maps Javascript API V3 documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html
UK-specific
http://www.oak-wood.co.uk/2010/04/postcodes-freed/
http://www.uk-postcodes.com/
http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/
databases:
http://www.geopostcodes.com/resources
http://www.upu.int/en/resources/postcodes/universal-postcoder-database.html
lookup and validation services
http://www.addressdoctor.com/lookup/default.aspx?lang=en
http://www.uniserv.com/en/products/data-quality-functions-features/address-validation-data-capture.php
http://gmaps-samples-v3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/geocoder/v3-geocoder-tool.html#q%3D2500%20KYUSTENDIL%26country%3DBG
http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-js-api-v3/browse_thread/thread/822b416df3d19bfa
jQuery plugin to autocomplete location using Google Maps v3 API and Google Static Maps v2 API
http://code.google.com/p/geo-autocomplete/
http://geo-autocomplete.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demo/ui.demo.html
reverse geocoding demo: click on map, get detailed address
http://demos.projectx.co.nz/gmaps3/reverse_geocoder.html
Google Maps Javascript API V3 documentation
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/javascript/services.html
UK-specific
http://www.oak-wood.co.uk/2010/04/postcodes-freed/
http://www.uk-postcodes.com/
http://www.tomanthony.co.uk/blog/geocoding-uk-postcodes-with-google-map-api/
databases:
http://www.geopostcodes.com/resources
http://www.upu.int/en/resources/postcodes/universal-postcoder-database.html
lookup and validation services
http://www.addressdoctor.com/lookup/default.aspx?lang=en
http://www.uniserv.com/en/products/data-quality-functions-features/address-validation-data-capture.php
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