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Author: Christoph Bartneck
New Position at Canterbury University
I started my new position at the Canterbury University in the HIT Lab NZ. I updated my contact details. I am looking forward to contribute to this great research institute.
Collecting LEGO Minifigures
I had the honor to visit Frans Snijders Blok in Bussum for the last three days. He has collected nearly ALL LEGO Minifgures. His collection is just amazing! He is also offering special sets and pieces at this online shop Blokbricks.
Collecting LEGO
Today I visited Ruud Woeltjes, one of the founders of the Dutch LEGO club De Bouwsteen. He collects and builds LEGO models for already more than forty years and his amazing collection of LEGO bricks and models takes more than a whole floor in his house. He has more than a million bricks! It is the biggest collection that I have ever seen.
How to create multiple folders with AppleScript
For a project I needed create 5000 folders. Needless to say that I certainly did not want to do this manually. After searching on Google I combined two AppleScripts. This new script creates multiple folders in the front window.
try
tell application “Finder” to set the this_folder ¬
to (folder of the front window) as alias
on error — no open folder windows
set the this_folder to path to desktop folder as alias
end try
repeat with i from 1 to 100
tell application “Finder”
make new folder at this_folder with properties {name:”xyz” & i}
end tell
end repeat