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<!-- A stab at how the first pie chart on http://teethgrinder.co.uk/open-flash-chart/gallery-pie.php could be created from a table -->
<table summary="Microsoft's Internet Explorer appears to be dying, with the Wii taking 20% of market">
  <caption>Pie Chart</caption>
  <tr>
    <td>Wii</td>
    <td>15%</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Opera</td>
    <td>12%</td>

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const MICROBLOG_STATUS_MAXLEN = 140;

CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
  name: "dent",
  takes: {status: noun_arb_text},
  
  author: {name: "Daniel Haran, barely modifying work by Blair McBride as seen in the Ubiquity tutorial", homepage: "http://danielharan.com/"},
  license: "MPL",
  
  preview: function(previewBlock, statusText) {

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require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

postal_codes = File.open("postal_codes.txt").read.split("\n")
# randomize to make the pattern slightly harder to see in logs
postal_codes = postal_codes.sort_by {|e| rand(10_000)}

@agent = WWW::Mechanize.new do |a|
  a.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
  a.max_history = 1

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require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

postal_codes = File.open("postal_codes.txt").read.split("\n")
# randomize to make the pattern slightly harder to see in logs
postal_codes = postal_codes.sort_by {|e| rand(10_000)}

@agent = WWW::Mechanize.new do |a|
  a.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'
  a.max_history = 1

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require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

postal_codes = File.open("postal_codes.txt").read.split("\n")
# randomize to make the pattern slightly harder to see in logs
postal_codes = postal_codes.sort_by {|e| rand(10_000)}

def filename(postcode)
  postcode.sub(' ', '')
end

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Dir.glob("*").each do |pc|
  File.open(pc).read =~ /aug08cpocRidingProfileTitle>([^<]*)</
  puts "#{pc},#{$1}"
end

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class Hash
  def +(other)
    (self.keys + other.keys).uniq.each do |key|
      if [self[key], other[key]].all?
        if self[key].is_a?(Hash)
          self[key] += other[key]
        elsif self[key].respond_to?(:+)
          self[key] += other[key]
        else
          raise "values for #{key} were neither hashes or summable"

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class String
  def starts_with?(str)
    self =~ /#{str}/
  end
end

names_to_edid = File.open(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/edid_names').read.split("\n").
  collect {|line| edid, pruid, edname = line.split("|"); [edname.strip, edid.strip]}.
  inject({}) {|hash,e| hash[e.first] = e.last; hash }

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class KeyValuePairs
  # Take a file like:
  # G6C=24034
  # H9E=24049
  # and create the hash you'd expect
  # if instead you have something like:
  # G6C=24034,24036
  # H9E=24049
  # then use a block to do the specify the value
  def self.hash(file_name, separator='=', &block)

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require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

postal_codes = File.open("postal_codes.txt").read.split("\n")
# randomize to make the pattern slightly harder to see in logs
postal_codes = postal_codes.sort_by {|e| rand(10_000)}

def filename(postcode)
  postcode.sub(' ', '')
end