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How to handle unrealistic schedules?

How do you personally handle unrealistic schedules? Currently I have a high workload (who doesn't) but I am still getting projects added to my list. I am trying to stay positive and motivated but the workload is killing my performance. Mainly due to the fact that I trying to think about all the projects at once and the task switching ...

Background reading for parsing sloppy / quirky / "almost structured" data?

I'm maintaining a program that needs to parse out data that is present in an "almost structured" form in text. i.e. various programs that produce it use slightly different formats, it may have been printed out and OCR'd back in (yeah, I know) with errors, etc. so I need to use heuristics that guess how it was produced and apply differen...