Max Beatty

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Archive for April, 2009

Quick Perl Script to Extract Text from a File

How long would it take you to copy and paste 230 things from one text file to another? If your answer is more than 10 mins, you could prob­a­bly use this short script I wrote tonight. I needed to expand a list of URLs I already had that are serv­ing as “seeds” for my search […]

Informatics in Action

Not a week has gone by in the last four years where I didn’t have to try and explain what Infor­mat­ics is. For starters, it’s my major and it’s awe­some. If you come off as the type of per­son who isn’t on Face­book and thinks a Nokia 3310 does the trick, I’ll prob­a­bly tell you […]

A Good Laugh from Great Customer Service

I was super impressed by Zap­pos when they deliv­ered two pairs of shoes to me in less than 24hrs last week, but a small sand­wich shop from Green­cas­tle, Indi­ana just topped them. If you’ve heard of Green­cas­tle or DePauw Uni­ver­sity, you’ve prob­a­bly also heard of Marvin’s and their GCB’s. For those of you are clueless, […]

The Only Reason You Should Ever Take The Elevator One Floor

You are dis­abled mean­ing you can’t phys­i­cally climb a flight of stairs at all or with­out being in severe pain. That’s the only accept­able rea­son for tak­ing an ele­va­tor up or down one floor. If you are mov­ing a refrig­er­a­tor or suf­fer from extreme bath­mo­pho­bia, then maybe I can let you slide, but no able-bodied per­son should ever […]

Stop Misusing Technology Tools, Start Getting More Out of Them

My day has been filled with peo­ple mis­us­ing tech­nol­ogy tools as com­mon as voice­mail and email, and as “cut­ting edge” as Face­book sta­tuses and Twit­ter. I’m not an expert or guru or ninja at any of them, but I’d like to think I pay enough atten­tion to see how peo­ple are using these tools and […]