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[badbarry]

[justdig]

Don't worry too much about him being snappy. I'd give it until tomorrow afternoon before we should call it a day.

Anyway, the best way to do this, as far as I'm concerned, is to download the whole site, which you can use wget for (although somebody uploaded it, zipped, at http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/notes/www.polygonparkmarathon.com.tgz so you can get it there), then use grep to search for ranges for each value. We know that she's younger than or equal 26 and at least 22, height 5'6" or 5'7", time less than 4 hours. So get everything from 265 and 258 that fits those values, that should be small enough to be able to manually seperate male from female. Then manually check for the same name (better than uids, since it's possible that the same person can be entered in different races under different uids?), see what fits. If it's not been done by the time I get home today, I'll give it a bash.

[kizandtango]

Maybe we should get a list of possibles (like the one badburry found) and post them somewhere, and pick over them as well as send them to kurt, see if theres any names he recognises. Maybe He has seen an alias name in miranda apartment on a scrap of paper or something and thought nothing of it, but will remember if we sugest a few names to him? Add this to the email we NEED to send to show him we are working hard on it?

[justdig]

Good thinking, but if there's one thing that'll seriously tick off Kurt more than he already is it's a list of random names and "Anything look familiar?". We need to narrow it down to as few as possible before bothering Kurt with it.

For example, while we've called 4 hours the maximum time, it's likely to actually be convsiderably under that from what he's told us. Also, while the age is certainly between 22 and 26, it seems unlikely that it'd be much lower than 24, from what people have said. That kind of picking off of entries on the boudaries may be able to be done manually. Also, there's the matter of the charity. It seems very likely that she's supporting either MEND (we can't discount that either she really has BFS or that she decided it'd be a good idea to support MEND as part of her cover) or the Plant Preservation Project, but it'd probably be unwise to actually search for only entires including those charities. Since the number of duplicates that fit the more definite criteria is lilely to be low and managable, that kind of thing can be done manually (I think).

[EvilGenius]

[Al Green]

Has anyone tried to run the names through an OCR package?

We may be able to automatically update them all.

[thalamus]

[Juxta]

[Sasuntsi Davit]

I will have a complete searchable database by the end of today, so will use the parameters he gave us to come up with a list of possible suspects.

[Juxta]

Um. I think we found her...So sayeth both Kurt and Violet.

J

[judderman]

Death Wish

[Sasuntsi Davit]

Yep looks like we found her.

[eeeqz]

I've emailed Violet telling her Kurt's rushing off to Drowsington - don't want him getting in trouble by himself.

Of course, they could both end up in the bottom of the Mazy river wearing the most fetching concrete shoes..... but there you go. How are they ever going to realise their love for each other if they don't go through hideous life-threatening peril together??

[badbarry]

[Mima]

badbarry - that was a really nice spot, and so quick off the mark as well, I was still fumbling around trying to work out how to look!