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Read it Later Digest
Read it Later Digest is beautiful, smart, and easy!* What it does is take the addresses you saved to read later, sorts them into categories, and then creates a web page just for you. Doesn’t sound...
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The pain of not using simple file storage locations
There is a special torture in computing nowadays. Its the managed content syndrome. Your media applications want to manage what you own. Thus, a music player only knows about Playlists. That’s...
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My blog’s 2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 37,000...
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Work on ‘Common Event Expression’ stopped
MITRE has stopped all work on CEE — http://cee.mitre.org/. MITRE is willing to pass this effort forward, and allowing further development: “MITRE is open to transition opportunities for CEE — including...
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Roadways as linear induction power generators
Take every roadway in a country, embed a series of electromagnetic coils, now put a magnet on the bottom of every vehicle, result is electrical generation. This idea came up during the morning shower....
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Continuous testing with Infinitest
With Infinitest every time you make a change in your code, the JUnit tests will be executed. How cool is that? Infinitest will run in IntelliJ or Eclipse. I tried it in a very small Groovy project, and...
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FORTH language processor on comet
The Philae spacecraft that landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P) had an experiment on board that was driven by a FORTH language processor, the Intersil HS-RTX2010RH. The experiment/hardware...
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maven-tomcat7-plugin not extracting the war file
The Apache Tomcat Maven Plugin has a great feature: it can create a runnable jar file with an embedded Tomcat server. I tried this on a simple ‘Hello world!’ webapp to see if this works. It didn’t....
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Do tablets have a black screen of death problem?
Just happened to my tablet, a Samsung Tab Pro 10.1. If you search online for this you find many discussions and pleas for help. Does this happen to other brands of laptops? BTW, there is also a White...
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How to easily siphon water from pool cover
Time to open up the pool. This time I’ll use my brain and figure out how to do this better. Yucky Method The cheapest way to do this is by getting a short length of hose, putting one end in the pool,...
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Large-world networks and species, social, and internet collapse
A Small-World Network is found in many naturally and and artificial situations. At the other extreme, if a network is totally connected, a complete digraph? You get zero information. This can be...
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Sonos unable to add folder due to Kapersky firewall
On laptop I tried to add a local folder on C drive to Sonos. The Sonos controller on the same laptop gave the 1002 error code. This is a timeout? Tried to find solution on web. Firewall had no issues...
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A Visit from Saint Nicholas: “Twas The Night Before Christmas”
Great poem! Originally called “A Visit from St. Nicholas“. I still remember singing a version of it in a grade school choir. Doesn’t he sound like the late Mitch Hedberg? The diction and phrasing....
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