{"id":397,"date":"2005-04-19T00:50:18","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/?p=397"},"modified":"2013-12-18T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T22:39:37","slug":"andre-pang-on-csv-to-address-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/19\/andre-pang-on-csv-to-address-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Andre Pang on CSV to Address Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

%u039Blgorithm.com.au: CSV to Address Book Importer<\/a><\/p>\n

Surely my OSX Address book VCF to Evo VCF perl script is more free software friendly.<\/p>\n

i think tihs may even be fixed now. i seem to recall a bugzilla mail recently. so maybe it’s redundant! yay!<\/p>\n

move from the proprietry world of OSX to the free world of Linux.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/junkcode\/vcf.pl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

%u039Blgorithm.com.au: CSV to Address Book Importer Surely my OSX Address book VCF to Evo VCF perl script is more free software friendly. i think tihs may even be fixed now. i seem to recall a bugzilla mail recently. so maybe … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-6p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":859,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/07\/evolution-import-vcf-possibly-the-slowest-thing-in-the-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":397,"position":0},"title":"Evolution import VCF possibly the slowest thing in the world…","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2007-07-07","format":false,"excerpt":"Waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. 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