Saturday, May 9th, 2009
My previous blog entry on TXTing provoked this response from my friend Lloyd:...[I] figured out that longest word typed with only the upper letters in the QWERTY keyboard is not only TYPEWRITER but also includes several 3 other words: PERPETUITY, PROPRIETOR and REPERTOIRE. The longest in the middle line is: ...
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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
The question came up at work: what is the longest English word you can TXT using only a single key on your phone assuming no fancy predictive text?
Using a list of my favorite 147948 words (the same dictionary used in WordMap) and a few lines of python the answer is ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Another budget has come and gone, this one more discussed than most for it actually contains the much promised but little seen tax cuts (read the Minister's Executive Summary for details).
Here is a little project I whipped up to calculate the amount you are going to better off when the ...
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