Little known facts about Hong Kong’s sovereignty
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Published by
davinci on
September 12, 2009 in
personal and social issues.
Tags: Britain, China, Communist China, Convention of Peking, Hong Kong, independence, Kowloon, New Territories, People's Republic of China, Qing, referendum, Republic of China, sovereignty, Taiwan, Treaty of Nanking, United Kingdom.
This post was inspired by the paragraph about the former flag of Hong Kong in yesterday’s post on the flags of the world.
Hong Kong island was actually ceded in perpetuity by the government of Qing China to the British crown in 1842 in the Treaty of Nanking… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]
Converting DigiMemo files to Jarnal format
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Published by
davinci on
September 12, 2009 in
programming and technical issues.
Tags: ACECAD, bash, DHW, DigiMemo, digital notepad, electronic notepad, Jarnal, journal, Kevin Lindsey, L2, Linux, Little Wooden Boy, note-taking, notetaking, open source, PDF, Perl, Scalable Vector Graphics, software, SVG, ZIP.
Update (Sept. 29, 2009): I got in touch with Kevin Lindsey, the author of the script discussed below for converting DigiMemo DHW files to SVG format. He’s put his code on github, and written a new blog post about it.
For taking notes physically on paper, I use an ACECAD DigiMemo L2 digital notepad (whom I have named Little Wooden Boy).
Because I use Linux primarily, I don’t use the Windows-based software provided by ACECAD. Instead, I use Jarnal, an open source note-taking application written in Java.
This poses a minor problem, as the DigiMemo products store their output in a proprietary ACECAD format called DHW… » [Expand post]« [Collapse post] [Permalink]