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These are links associated with recent searches I’ve done. They’re not difficult enough to warrant to their own posts but still super useful.

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I figured I’d like to start readings works by Isaac Asimov, but the sheer volume of stories is overwhelming. I didn’t know where to start and I was paralyzed by the fear of starting with the wrong book and say spoiling hundreds of other books/stories.

Luckly the people from Ask MetaFilter came to the rescue and recommended reading the stories in the order of publication.

Here is a list of his books with publication dates grouped by series. I shall start with “Foundation”.

Little tip, If you’re getting this error in Python and you have no idea why, check for circular imports. That’s what the problem was for me.

A circular import is for example module A imports module B and module B imports module A. There are certain scenarios where this doesn’t work. (More reading here, and here.)

For me with Pidgin 2.3.1 I found them stored here:
C:\Documents and Settings\gpinero\Application Data\.purple\logs\

When saving an Excel file as DBF 4, I was finding that the values in one column were getting truncated.

Well it turns out that you have to change the width of your columns to avoid this behavior. So make sure every column width is wide enough to show the full text from that column before saving as DBF. (Even make it wider than auto width to be safe.)

Do note that when saving in DBF 4 format from excel, it will still insist on cutting off your header (first row) values at 10 characters.