everything is an experiment
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] [Permalink]
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] [Permalink]