http://www.alocurto.com/blog4.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Wed, 10 Dec 2008 20:05:35 +0000 gopi [Visitor] c6@http://www.alocurto.com/ Hahaha! I have a sense of deja-vu...<br /> <br /> One of the Logitech Anoto pens stored an XML file, which looked interesting, except it only had the metadata in a human readable format.<br /> <br /> But there was this big block of ASCII bytes. It had a length tag that was longer than the block. And the block looked like MIME. 30 seconds in Python, de-MIMEd. But length doesn't match. The binary data is too short. I think it was gzipped, but I may be wrong. The first attempt worked, and...<br /> <br /> XML! Of the strokes!<br /> <br /> So an XML file containing MIMEd compressed XML in the middle. How perverse.<br /> <br /> I can't wait to get in to the office where my Mac is and try to poke at the AFD file. Thank you for your poking. I just "cross-graded" from a Nokia SU-1B Bluetooth Anoto pen to the Livescribe. I want to get feature parity now...
One of the Logitech Anoto pens stored an XML file, which looked interesting, except it only had the metadata in a human readable format.

But there was this big block of ASCII bytes. It had a length tag that was longer than the block. And the block looked like MIME. 30 seconds in Python, de-MIMEd. But length doesn't match. The binary data is too short. I think it was gzipped, but I may be wrong. The first attempt worked, and...

XML! Of the strokes!

So an XML file containing MIMEd compressed XML in the middle. How perverse.

I can't wait to get in to the office where my Mac is and try to poke at the AFD file. Thank you for your poking. I just "cross-graded" from a Nokia SU-1B Bluetooth Anoto pen to the Livescribe. I want to get feature parity now...]]> http://www.alocurto.com/blog4.php/DigitalPens/livescribe-afd-file#c6