Archive for December, 2008

Condensed Knowledge - December 29, 2008

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CCTV Cameras Going Unmonitored
Illustration: St Nicholas Magazine, Dec 1910
Anyone Seen My Cat?
I'm…. co-o-o-o-o-ld!
Go for Baroque: All of Bach on an iPod
iPhone 3G Unlock complete, due for New Year’s Eve release
Selling cars to insensitive jerks!
Hybrid Blu-Ray and DVD Movie Disc Announced
Tesla accuses Top Gear of foul play in roadster test
Alaskan [...]

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Shame on Romanian TV

So I’m here at my parents’ house in FL for Christmas, and they have a satellite dish that receives several Romanian TV channels. My parents turned it on to see what Christmas programs are available, and one of the channels had a Christmas Carol show. I was working on my laptop, and turned to watch [...]

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Is it easier to design for the enterprise or for the consumer?

I was thinking about the difference between hardware and software products designed for the consumer and those designed for the enterprise. In particular, I thought about how vocal consumers can be nowadays vs. companies, and how that affects the process of making and selling products to them vs. the business market. I think it makes [...]

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Condensed Knowledge - December 22, 2008

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Dimensions Turns iPhone, iPod Touch into a Toolbox
The RED CANON
Christmas Night
Wide Christmas: 1920
OMG!
The Gift of a Bible
Baby turtle practices “release wave”
Five and Ten: 1921
Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1014
Sherry Johnston Arrested
Dell Shipping Inspiron Mini 9 With Super Mini Batteries?

WTD 633: “Pearls of Wisdom”
11th Grade
Das Piratenboot: 1915
Puddle King: 1914
Ferrari F1 going racing with… Tata [...]

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Hardware review: WD My Book Studio Edition II

I have been working daily with a WD My Book Studio Edition II drive for the past eight months (since April ‘08). I mentioned it back in July in my popular “What’s on my desk” post. It is a quad interface (USB 2.0, FW400, FW800, eSATA) 2TB drive that can run in RAID 0 (2TB [...]

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Run WordPress by itself or cached?

I’ve been running an experiment for the past three months. I wanted to see how well WordPress would do if I ran it by itself, without any sort of caching. So far, so good.
About four months ago, my web server kept getting pummelled into the ground almost daily, and I couldn’t figure out why it [...]

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Condensed Knowledge - December 15, 2008

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Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #1008
Teachers Speak Out Against Unions
Old and in the way
Weblog Tools Collection: Wordpress Notifier for Mac OSX
Nokia Readies 3G Wireless Push for Notebooks
Feds having fits over FISMA and cybersecurity
Cartoon Brew 2008 Favorites: Jerry’s Picks
Improved Contacts Management
Lenny and Edna: 1924
High efficiency wind turbine based on jet engine technology
Revolving door generates [...]

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This is why I dislike tests

A couple of evenings ago, we were at our friends’ home, and I helped their daughter with her homework. She’s in kindergarten, and they’re teaching them how to read. One of the homework questions helped to re-awaken my dislike for tests. You can see the question below, I took a quick photo of it.
My beef [...]

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Condensed Knowledge - December 8, 2008

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Cutting Edge: 1920
Amsterdam ousts weed and hookers
Before and After: 1918
Kittens on a slide- Mesmerizing.
Somebody get me Bob Costas
Kena Kai’s Leather Inter-Office Memo Notebook Sleeve
Builders of Victory: 1943
(sigh) I Remember Back In 1963…
Hey, Wanna Come To A Stag Party?
The Pontch: 1910
Hotel Pontchartrain: 1907
I can't decide if this is lazy, brilliant, [...]

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An announcement about my photos

I’ve been mulling over this decision for some time. As I thought about it, I wanted to balance my desire to let people enjoy my photos with my very real need to retain the ability to sell my photographs, because I do want that to become a larger source of income for me than it [...]

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Condensed Knowledge - December 1, 2008

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The Most Remote Place on Earth
Bud and Dick: 1915
Penny-Pitchers: 1912
Saturday Noon: 1910
The Two Okinawan Diet Rules (or How I’m Getting Leaner During the Holidays)
Bon-bons, s'il vous plaît
The Cinnamon Bear: An Old-Time Radio Christmas Tradition
Worms in love
Teacher must still surrender license in bizarre ‘exposure to porn’ suit
Big 4 Candy: 1926
Saddest. [...]

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