Rants, Raves, and Rhetoric v4

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  • TED Talk: Photos that changed the world

    April 13, 2010
    News, Photography

    Images can be powerful. It is one of the many reasons why I enjoy both looking at photography and taking my own photos. Looking through Getty Images news photos hadn’t occurred to me. Then again, I am not an editorial editor. My sources are more things like Flickr or the Boston Globe’s Big Picture.

  • Notepad++ load langs.xml failed

    April 9, 2010
    Open Source, Unix / Comp Languages

    Notepad++ is my Windows text editor. Work has a site license for UltraEdit. I bought a personal license for EditPlus back in 2002-ish. Notepad++ does what I need it to do without having to track down a license key. This week I started getting this error when it starts. Load langs.xml failed! Apparently this happens…

  • Flowers Gone Wild

    April 9, 2010
    Photography

    Cora invited me to her Easter potluck party. I was curious what kind of flowers I’d find given her work involves flowers. The tulips were nice, but the patch of these in the backyard were much more interesting.

  • TED Talk: Every pollen grain has a story

    April 8, 2010
    Biol / Genetics

    Given the local record pollen count level, I found this one interesting.

  • World Autism Awareness Day

    April 1, 2010
    Psychology

    On December 18, 2007, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/139… which declares April 2 as World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD) in perpetuity. News last month about oxytocin helping autism patients’ socialization was quite intriguing. I hope research continues and helps as many as possible. Something so basic as a naturally produced hormone makes me…

  • Comment Phishing

    March 31, 2010
    Blog Software, Cybersecurity

    I noticed today comment spammers are getting craftier. Some of the comments I approved I now believe to be comment spam. Perhaps they are probing to later deliver the real deal? They use the name of people who legitimately commented. Because the scammer cannot see the real email commenter’s address, they use a different one…

  • A Very Small Shell Script

    March 31, 2010
    Geek / Nerd / Dork, GeorgiaVIEW

    I ought to give this teeshirt to Amy as just this week she suggested this very thing to solve a personnel problem for the office. Maybe she has a birthday coming up?

  • Uselessness of Showing Up Early

    March 31, 2010
    Hardware

    Came into work early. I was paged just as I was waking up, so I thought it would be easier to deal with the issue first thing from my desk as to deal with it then restart getting ready for going into the office. I didn’t plan on getting greeted with a message I’ve never…

  • The Future of Publishing

    March 30, 2010
    Books / Novels / Writing, Corporations

    Yeah, I am definitely the latter consumer….

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