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Adobe Reader Cannot Send PDF’s via Email

Jon Watson — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:00:09 +0000

Image via Wikipedia In keeping with my long tradition of blogging about things that only interest me and not caring a whit about what might interest you, this entry is dedicated to an area of deep confusion on the Interwebs: Why can’t I send a PDF form via email with the free Adobe Reader? First off, I would [...]

Data Scoring and Massive Data Matches

Jon Watson — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 11:44:40 +0000

I’ve spent the last two weeks waist-deep in US medical provider data in an attempt to match federal-level provider identification numbers with state-level licensees. The two levels of government make little attempt to correlate their two data sets so matching them together was quite the task, but we did it. In broad terms, here’s how: The [...]

reCaptcha – Help Digitize the World

Jon Watson — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:04:10 +0000

I have employed reCAPTCHA on many sites that I have worked on over time. For the unitiated, a Captcha is a graphic representation of a word or words that are distorted to such an extent that it is unlikely a spam bot would be able to determine the original word. The words are clear enough [...]