Obviously this has been a cold winter for we Austinites. My propane bill in my new house has been shockingly high. So, I did a little noodling to see just how true that is. I found the requisite data here http://www.wunderground.com/ I chose to look at the average temperatures for Dec, Jan and Feb of […]
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During single-minded work time, people are ideally in a state that psychologists call flow. Flow is a condition of deep, nearly meditative involvement. In this state, there is a gentle sense of euphoria, and one is largely unaware of the passage of time: “I began to work. I looked up and three hours had passed.” […]
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GSM Feature Codes If you own a GSM phone then there are several codes that can be entered to tell the network how to handle incoming calls and more. These codes are not really considered secrets, but they are poorly documented by service providers.
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“easy but time consuming… makes you want to eat a bullet” – supervette describing his MIS final, but thinking it was said about him!
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I heard a guy today say that his two year old can operate his iPhone. Everyone knows that an iPhone is easy to use. But I hadn’t actually heard of a two year old using one. This illustrates the fact that it is in fact designed to such a low common denominator that, apparently, one […]
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No programming language is perfect. There is not even a single best language; there are only languages well suited or perhaps poorly suited for particular purposes. –Herbert Mayer
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The first time I ever borrowed money from anyone I was 15. I had taken drivers ed and had everything taken care of to get my license on my 16th, I was ready to go. I’d been working various jobs since I was 14, saving up to buy a car. Unlike kids today back then […]
Continue readingBest joke I’ve heard in a while…
A friend just told me he was reading about how to setup the built in VPN in Windows Server… You have to disable the firewall.
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Dog Story A guy is driving around the back woods of Tennessee and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale .’ He rings the bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard. The guy goes into the backyard and sees […]
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