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Get your very own Badonkadon Land Cruiser

Well, this is something I didn’t expect to buy through Amazon… JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank NAO Design Price: $19,999.95 … 1-Click ordering is not available for this item.

2006 03 20 Comments Off on Get your very own Badonkadon Land Cruiser

When Super Heroes become Trademarked ࡊ

Marvel and DC Comics have jointly filed a trademark on the word “super-hero”. Oh brother. I guess we now have to label them Extraodinarily Powered Beings (EPB for short) or Not Ordinary Entities (NOE). How about I call this Wasted Time Futzing (WTF). Or even better WOMBAT (You guys can puzzle this one out yourself) […]

2006 03 19 Comments Off on When Super Heroes become Trademarked ࡊ

There is some resemblance there

2006 03 06 Comments Off on There is some resemblance there

Vodaphone calls it quits in Japan

Well… there goes my phone provider. They just handed it off to SoftBank. Perhaps this is a sign I should be getting a new provider. Read the news yourself

2006 03 05 Comments Off on Vodaphone calls it quits in Japan

How much does the US pay for energy on average?

Check out the map below:

2006 03 04 Comments Off on How much does the US pay for energy on average?

Finding out OS X information from the command line

I was trying to find out information on what particular version of OS X I was running from the command line. Being a UNIX type person my first reaction was to try uname $ uname -a Darwin hsph.bebear.net 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc That gives […]

2006 02 11 Comments Off on Finding out OS X information from the command line

Enfuego Guild Wars

I am extremely impressed and amazed. I think I can sum it up as… Build it and you can be sure someone will use it for another purpose What am I talking about? Taking a 3d game engine RPG and deciding it makes a better tool for doing MTV music videos… Check out more of […]

2006 02 08 Comments Off on Enfuego Guild Wars

Squeak Plugin breaks with Adblock enabled in Firefox

One of those things I seem to be good at falling over when geeking out with technology is falling into all those annoying corner cases where adding two things together means you get neither working. So in my little world, 1 + 1 = 0. Or perhaps a more correct way to express that in […]

2006 02 02 Comments Off on Squeak Plugin breaks with Adblock enabled in Firefox

Flow: Measuring one’s happiness in life

Paul Graham put another essay on How to do what you love. I’ll have to say I wasn’t as impressed with this essay as his other ones but it is well written. In the commentary on his essay one reader put up a link to a concept called Flow. This concept I found a bit […]

2006 01 28 Comments Off on Flow: Measuring one’s happiness in life

Making sure Thunderbird and Tiger Mail.app use the same IMAP dir for storing sent messages

One aggravation when using Thunderbird AND Mail.app together on an IMAP account is making sure that they use the same folder for sent messages. By default, Thunderbird wants to put it in INBOX/Sent while Mail.app wants to put it in INBOX/Sent Messages. Mail.app under Tiger does not seem to let you set the particular folder […]

2006 01 16 Comments (1)

Humor for the day

2005 12 14 Comments Off on Humor for the day

Chinese_rules.cf – A Chinese ruleset for SpamAssassin

This puts to rest some of my complaints on how SpamAssasin deals with spam in Chinese. Chinese_rules.cf is a third party drop-in custom rule set for SpamAssassin to catch spam written in Chinese. Due to there is no rule for Chinese mail before, SpamAssassin can not catch Chinese spam effectively. Chinese_rules.cf is the first rule […]

2005 12 03 Comments (1)

A better way to run Postgresql on Windows

Under Windows, trying to get Postgresql has been a tricky thing for some time. At one point you definitely needed cygwin before it would run correctly but it seems there are now native binaries at last. And even better a nice cross platform GUI tool for working with Postgresql is called PGadmin. It also includes […]

2005 12 03 Comments Off on A better way to run Postgresql on Windows

NLP techniques applied to Vietnamese

I’ve been getting interested in computational linguistics lately and have been trying to read up on the fundamentals. It’s been quite a bit of probability which I’m not sure I really understand that well but I imagine it’ll get easier to understand if I work with it a bit more. Most of the examples in […]

2005 12 03 Comments Off on NLP techniques applied to Vietnamese

Postgresql on cygwin giving you bad system call?

You’ve probably done the whole song and dance of getting the cygrunserver and postgresql just gives you the bad system call and no love? Like me and the article I link to…. you probably forgot to set the CYGWIN env variable to server export CYGWIN=server Thanks Mr Schneider!

2005 12 03 Comments Off on Postgresql on cygwin giving you bad system call?
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