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Web 2.0 is supposed to stand for the convergence of the desktop computer and the Internet where your files and your favorite editor are available at any time on any kind of Internet-savvy device, but there's a huge difference between the idea of Web 2.0 a...
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The Make: Magazine blog has a soldering tutorial that's a must for anyone with no formal training in soldering.
As someone who considered himself pretty good with a soldering iron until recently botching a couple of PCB LED kits, I enjoyed the refresher....
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One of the scientific supply houses that I order from is now sending out evangelical Christian religious recruiting pamphlets.
That's a weird opt-out list.
There's no way to opt out from their web site. Customers have to call them to request that they...
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Looking at the guitar tabs for the first time, I just played a long Grateful Dead tune straight through without a pause or mistake.
That was nice.
I haven't been playing the guitar for very long. I lack a formal music education. I'm teaching myself. U...
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I'm still making good progress on the guitar.
I started working on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven" last week and I think I've got it down pretty well.
But then I'm tearing through it in front of my folks and I'm waiting for some sign of approval w...
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Last Friday, while performing some minor surgery on a G4 tower (swapping a DVD drive), I somehow managed to slice the side of my finger on the case.
I inevitably pick up a few scratches from working inside of computers, but I seldom get cut deeply enou...
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The DVD Player in Leopard doesn't display the Script menu. If you're not a "power user," this may not seem like such a drastic oversight, but it's painful to me because I've customized the DVD Player quite a bit through the Script menu.
"Forgetting" the ...
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When I upgraded to Leopard, I found that web sharing no longer worked under the user account that I ported from Tiger. It did, however, work for all new users that I created.
A little research turned up a reason and a fix. It seems that the Migration Ass...
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My hint about using the Tiger version of the DVD Player to enable the AppleScript menu under Leopard was recently invalidated by the Mac OS 10.5.1 update.
Under 10.5.1, the OS does version-checking of various applications, including the QuickTime Player ...
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I use mail rules to sort out what little spam I get from my legitimate email. I have automated spam filters turned off in my mail client.
I don't receive very much spam at the various email addresses that I use for everyday business and friends because...
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This is not a camera-trick!
My local Wendy's has shrunk the Jr. Hamburger/Cheeseburger.
It's just over 2.5 inches across!
It's so small now that I think we should start calling it a "slammer" -- a tiny hamburger-like appetizer commonly served a...
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I was out doing a "Flat Stanley" project for my nephew when I spotted Scott Bakula at the Old Post Office in Washington, D.C.
I felt bad interrupting what seemed to be a day out with his family, but I couldn't pass up the opportunity to get a shot for ...
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I went to Ikea this weekend. Last resort.
I spent much of Saturday at Ikea, measuring pieces and working out which parts to get to make an entertainment center that could neatly stow my stuff with sufficient hidden storage to hide the stuff that ain't ...
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I Just Saved $200 Dollars
It seemed like my 4 year old upright vacuum cleaner was on its last legs. The belt was going -- making a nasty burning smell whenever I ran it -- the suction power was down to almost nothing, the case was cracked and splitting ...
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Those Seagate enclosures... they just plain suck, don't they? First you have to run Windows to turn off the sleep-feature (the one that parks the drive while data is being written to it). Now people are complaining that as the drives age they are having...
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I got a new betta this weekend.
'Took advantage of the timing and cleaned my Pleco's 12-gallon aquarium, putting about a half gallon of the waste water into the new 2.5 gallon tank for the betta. Gravel on the bottom and a submerged sponge-based filter s...
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My Comcast bill went up drastically again. It happens every 3-6 months.
Now I have to go through the dance where I call and they tell me that I was on a promo rate and have to wait 90 days for a new promo plan to become available. Then I threaten to qu...
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As you may have noticed, this site has been offline for a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.This weekend, we're moving to a new server, and that affects not only the main site, but also all subdomains, including imacquarium.com.The good news i...
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As you can see, most of the site's basic utility is back, including the subdomains.We're still tweaking the main page a bit and because comments for imacquarium.com were saved using a Moveable Type template, they will be non-functional until we can move t...
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