Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language

Some years ago I came across one of the hardest poems in the English language, and since I've been playing with the text-to-speech engine I decided to let the text-to-speech deal with the poem. It seemed to do very well and tought me how to pronounce some words I had never heard of as well. … Continue reading Use text to speech to read the hardest poem in the English language

Powershell application – Get information from a webpage, parse it and show the results

Today I created a nice little 'application' in Powershell. In The Netherlands we have a site called Marktplaats (www.marktplaats.nl) which is some sort of combination between e-bay and craiglist. This is one of the biggest sites in The Netherlands, but I was missing some search options on this site and thought they started to show … Continue reading Powershell application – Get information from a webpage, parse it and show the results