January 2012
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“Happiness comes from the intersection of what you love, what you’re good...”
– To Find Happiness, Forget About Passion - Oliver Segovia - Harvard Business Review
December 2011
2 posts
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“You can create a single space using ”
– Blank Space in XSLT
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“Here’s a usage example to insert the current date and time in XSLT 1.0”
– XSLT can insert the current date - Stack Overflow
October 2011
1 post
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TARDIS cat playpen →
This is The Best Cat Playpen Ever!
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understanding DUID decodes →
3 tags
decoding the abominable DUID
echo "\DUID\from\DHCPv6\leases" | od -x | awk '{for (i=NF; i>1; i--) printf("%s ",$i);print ""}' | awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j>=0;) print a[j--] }'
June 2011
2 posts
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5 Technologies That Will Shape the Web - IEEE... →
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“Now, when I’m home—or actually anywhere with my phone—I can send a tweet...”
– Send a Tweet to Your Office Door - IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
3 posts
3 tags
Penguin Being Tickled →
This is a short movie of a penguin being tickled, and my kids love it!
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xkcd: (Remember Your) Dreams →
Yeah, I know the feeling, but sometimes I hold my tongue at work anyway [when it’s more effective].
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Dilbert 9/16/1996: the Phantom Pager Syndrome →
This is my favorite Dilbert!
April 2011
1 post
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“those [infants] with the condition [of colic] being found to have high levels of...”
– Klebsiella bacteria linked to infant colic and irritable bowel syndrome
January 2011
2 posts
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Thunderbird not opening large messages →
set mail.server.default.fetch_by_chunks = false to work around a size bug
Tried it, didn’t help Tbird open large messages over IMAP to an Exchange 2010 server. I also set mail.server.default.max_message_size = 5000 from 50 at the same time. Still looking for answers ….
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(PDF Service to) Create Booklet →
Creating a booklet (fold in the middle and staple) seems like the perfect tedious task for a computer to do. Now it’s easy! OS X 10.5+
November 2010
1 post
Where is Vegan Rella cheese? →
Aha, a supply chain problem! I was so sad that I couldn’t get it anymore (local co-op stopped carrying it), but then #1 Cale outgrew his dairy allergy and then #2 I discovered that I like Daiya cheese shreds too.
July 2010
1 post
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How to make a drop capital in Pages '08 →
May 2010
2 posts
1 tag
Guided Imagery reduces abdominal pain in children →
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Recipe: Homemade Snickers Candy Bar, want Almond... →
Homemade Snickers Candy Bar Recipe http://www.instructables.com/i…ndy-Bar-Recipe/# hmmm… I want to make home made almond joys, with dark chocolate. I’ve always felt cheated by that choice, dark chocolate vs. almonds. I want both.
Me too! I’ve always wanted dark chocolate, coconut, and almonds! But guess what? It should be easy to add almonds to this recipe!
March 2010
3 posts
Progestins, carbohydrates, and weight gain around... →
progestins with less androgenic activity tend to have little to no effect on carbohydrate metabolism
Or, turning this the other way around, androgenic weight gain (that preferentially deposits excess weight around the waist) is linked to androgenically-impaired carbohydrate metabolism?! That’s one nasty side effect!
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Bifidus for Celiac →
People with celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder with gastrointestinal symptoms, also have lower numbers of bifidobacterium than healthy people. Although there is no cure yet for celiac disease, probiotics with bifidobacterium help control the symptoms.
Why Casein-Free (CF) diets should also be Soy-Free →
The main reason why GFCF diets should also be SF:
Soy is broken down by the same enzyme as gluten and casein.
Unfortunately,
It is common for parents to substitute soy for dairy. Soy is inflammatory to the gut, it’s known to inhibit thyroid function, contains strong estrogen compounds, and decreases absorption of calcium, magnesium, zinc and other minerals. For these and more reasons, I do...
February 2010
2 posts
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A Beet Question I Like →
Q. What varieties should I grow for beet greens?
A. A special vigorously growing variety, Green Top Bunching, is excellent for producing greens. Crosby Egyptian and Early Wonder also can be used for greens. Planting the seeds 1/2 inch apart without thinning produces an abundance of greens. Swiss chard is a heavy producer of greens very similar to beet greens.
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Milk Protein Intolerances →
Another condition that’s different from dairy allergies — but one with similar implications for feeding — is milk protein intolerance. In this condition, the digestive tract is unable to digest casein or whey, the two major proteins in milk. The major symptoms of milk protein intolerance are gastrointestinal — bloating, diarrhea (which may be bloody), vomiting and nausea....
December 2009
1 post
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mythfilldatabase and Segmentation Fault →
At first I thought I had hit a show stopper when mythfilldatabase gave me a segfault after I upgraded to MythTV 0.22, but it turns out to have been an artifact of Qt. Whew! On with the testing …
November 2009
2 posts
1 tag
Mac and "Cheese" nutritional Yeast
3 1/2 cups elbow macaroni 1/2 cup margarine 1/2 cup flour 3 1/2 cups boiling water 1.5 tsp salt 2 Tbs tamari 1.5 tsp garlic powder pinch of turmeric 1/4 cup oil 1 cup nutritional yeast paprika to taste Boil pasta while preheating oven to 350 F. In a saucepan, melt margarine over low heat. Beat in flour with a wire whisk and continue to beat over a medium flame until mixture is...
“… to copy the inner identity to the outer identity [for accounting] (works...”
– Nabble - FreeRadius - User - EAP/TTLS on LDAP with freeradius 2.0.1
October 2009
2 posts
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InformIT on Pattern Matching →
Using the replace() function in Javascript, $& is the found pattern.
“Research shows that motorists talking on a phone are four times as likely to...”
– Driven to Distraction - NYTimes.com
September 2009
6 posts
Clear print queue in OS X →
Works like a champ!
cancel -a -
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JavaScript undefined vs. null →
JavaScript is annoying me today.
Use if(!foo){foo="bar";}
Still Seeking an Exploded Tinderbox for Tiger –... →
Oh, I completely agree! Except I never got sucked into TinderBox because I didn’t trust that I could get out ALL of my metadata. Exploded Tinderbox would be the best Finder replacement ever!
use expect on local machine →
I thought I was going insane because expect_out didn’t exist and I was starting to loathe expect … and it turns out that all I needed was to
spawn sh
. There goes a day of searching for the wrong answer to
can’t read “expect_out(buffer)”: no such variable
!
Example 14-17. Using set with positional... →
Interesting … how to fake out ‘getopts’ and maybe support short and long options without needing a different options processor.
non-greedy matching with sed →
The trick to get non greedy matching in sed is to match all characters excluding the one that terminates the match. I know, a no-brainer, but I wasted precious minutes on it and shell scripts should be, after all, quick and easy. So in case somebody else might need it: Greedy matching % echo "<b>foo</b>bar" | sed 's/<.*>//g' bar Non greedy matching % echo...
August 2009
2 posts
Exit Codes With Special Meanings →
The author of this document proposes restricting user-defined exit codes [from bash shell scripts] to the range 64 - 113 (in addition to 0, for success)
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Shell Scripting Exit Codes →
the construct is
command && command-to-execute-on-success || command-to-execute-on-failure
Only one command can be in each part, though the ( ) brackets make a subshell, which is treated as a single command by the top-level shell.
July 2009
5 posts
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Fixing SIMBL →
Before the problem drives you crazy!
Try this command in Terminal. It sets up privilege of InputManagers folder. sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/InputManagers
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Attention Deficit Trait →
In his book, CrazyBusy, Hallowell argues that Crackberry culture leads to ADD-like symptoms in people that don’t officially have the disorder—a problem he calls Attention Deficit Trait (ADT).
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“According to Hugh A. Sampson, M.D., “Virtually all infants who develop cow’s...”
– Outgrowing a Milk Allergy? - Wellsphere
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“getting people to think about how to share data as opposed to how to consume...”
– Looking for swine and the data society - Network World - Mark Gibbs (Backspin column May 1, 2009)
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“Repair Disk Permissions”
– Fix fruux “Missing Sync Session” error
June 2009
3 posts
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“A healthy culture includes breathing room for people to remark the emperor has...”
– Joni Keller
iCal and Google Calendar Zen →
A cli into Google Calendar! Spiffy!
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match and replace a tab →
I never can remember this one:
a real tab, entered by issuing a ^V^I ( control-V control-I )
May 2009
1 post
x11vnc: a VNC server for real X displays →
I wrote x11vnc back in 2002 because x0rfbserver was basically impossible to build on Solaris and had poor performance. The primary x0rfbserver build problems centered around esoteric C++ toolkits. x11vnc is written in plain C and needs only standard libraries and so should work on nearly all Unixes. I also added some enhancements to improve the interactive response, add many features, and etc.
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March 2009
1 post
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“It just isn’t an enterprise production service if it isn’t...”
– Joni Keller
February 2009
5 posts
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“In effect, they [the students in this research study] were willing to pay a 22%...”
– The Economist: The Price of Prejudice
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“People act in a timely way when given concrete tasks but dawdle when they view...”
– The Economist: people procrastinate when asked to think in the abstract
Any Muffins : Recipezaar →
*** I made a 2/3 batch with 1 cup cake flour, 1/3 cup sugar, 1/4 tsp baking powder (ick), 1/2 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp cream of tartar, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp cinnamon, 1/4 tsp cloves and 2/3 cup mixed fruit juice, 1 tsp vanilla, 1/4 cup almond butter, 1 cup of fruit (2 nectarines, 2 pears, 1/2 banana). I left out the egg due to allergies. It did seem a bit “wet” which is surprising...
Olive Garden Pasta E Fagioli : Recipezaar →
**** I made this without beans and basil. I used a splash of Texas Pete instead of vinegar. Yummy! and easy.