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Marine Technology

This morning was very foggy. In my daily ferry trip to work I learned a little about marine technology. I had assumed that, here in the 21st century, ships, like the ferry I ride to work, used some combination of

Posted in Stories, Technology

Chef, cookbook versioning and the development cycle

The problem A common development paradigm is as follows : Joe developer commits code into a feature branch Joe developer deploys that code on his own machine to see if it works Joe developer either continues committing and deploying or

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Why Lastpass is a great piece of software that sucks

I am a big proponent and supporter of Lastpass. I’ve used for about 3 years now and have many hundreds of credentials in my Lastpass vault. At the moment I think it’s the best software out there for password management.

Posted in Technology

Scary side of direct democracy

There has been a lot in the news recently about how this whitehose.gov petition has gotten more votes than any other before it. I went and took a look at it and here is the text : Legally recognize Westboro

Posted in Politics

Origin of Cementhorizon

In 1999 the internet landscape was very different from what it is today. In the absence of free services for things like weblog hosting, photo hosting, group collaboration, etc. Google had started the year before and was at the time

Posted in Stories

Welcome to the Sixth World

On December 24, at the same moment that hundreds of Japanese witnessed the first appearance of the great dragon Ryumyo as they sped past Mount Fuji on a bullet train, the Prophet of the Great Ghost Dance, Daniel Howling Coyote,

Posted in Games

Connected

Sometimes I’m briefly shocked by the change in technology that has occurred in such a short time. I’m watching a video of an intro to git (a software version control system) and in it the guy, while describing how git

Posted in Technology

Field Day 2011

Come out Saturday to Treasure Island to check out my Amateur Radio club participating in Field Day. Field Day is a yearly event where ham radio users around north america compete to establish as many connections with other hams around

Posted in Radio, Uncategorized

This is what it takes to determine the price of service from Comcast

Here’s the transcript of the chat and what it took to find out how much it costs to get internet services from Comcast. All to find that internet costs $59.95 per month. Jessica: Hi, I’m a live Comcast product specialist.

Posted in Stories

Cool stuff at Maker Faire 2011

Here’s some cool stuff that I saw at the Maker Faire today : Forbidden Island : New (2010) game by Matt Leacock The Atari 800 : There was one in a booth at the faire and it reminded me that

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