Month: April 2006
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Looking Upstream
Looking Upstream Originally uploaded by sneezypb. A new camera gave me reason to go wander. I visited Watkinsville and souhgt out the “Elder Covered Bridge”. Later, I visited the Georgia State Botanical Gardens. Click on the picture to get into the stream.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts, and 1.4 Cents for the Penny
This is a great story. The slowness the U.S. Mint is reacting to change is costing them. More than just the cost of the metals go into making pennies, so we could easily be close to 2 cents to produce a single penny. However, the U. S. Mint doesn’t exactly sell the money it makes,…
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Google, You Suck
One of the fun things about Google is they change the logo at their search page (and the smaller one for the results) whenever there is something special about that particular day. Christmas and Easter are pretty obvious. However, they get things like the Olympics, election days, and other things one might know. On rare…
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Highlighting
Why, oh why, doesn’t Adobe include the highlighter tool in Acrobat Reader? I understand the intent of the tool. For the person creating the document to highlight the important parts. Perhaps though the people reading the document would like to highlight the important parts. For an off-computer example, students highlight parts of text books. So…
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Underplanned Internet
My have things changed. The number is probably in the millions to tens of millions considering people often set up networks at home. RFC 1118 – Hitchhikers guide to the Internet. E. Krol. When the Internet was designed it was to have about 50 connected networks. With the explosion of networking, the number is now…
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Taking Screenshots of web pages without Spending $40
Screen Grab will be very useful. It is easy enough to take screenshots, past them into GIMP and save them as PNG. Why do that when you can have something do it for you in one step? Take Screen Capture of Webpages in Firefox » Digital Inspiration: Software Reviews, Technology News, Downloads, Productivity Tips As…
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Who has the best job in America?
Survey: Software engineers top list of best jobs – Computerworld Software engineers have the best jobs in America, according to a Money magazine survey released yesterday. College faculty are number two? I am so going to get my PhD now!
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Crime and Malnourishment
Perhaps this can suggest something even more novel like fast food is responsible for the increased crime levels? By eliminating McDonalds and Burger King, the US could cut crime by whole percentage rates? Maybe this could spawn whole new legal defenses? “Because I was malnurished, I was not thinking straight.” Perhaps too similar to the…
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Quarry Layers
Quarry Layers, originally uploaded by sneezypb. Red Georgia clay is only at the top. I saw these from the US 441 north of Dublin and south of Milledgeville and had to stop to take pictures for my mom. The other photos were bonuses.