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Weekend Review #1
A thought that occurs to me, from time to time, is how the course of our lives seem to follow Heisenberg's uncertainty principle:[W]e cannot measure the position (x) and the momentum (p) of a particle...
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Buying, building, and something in between
In our neighborhood, homes built in the 70s had 2-car garages in the strictest sense only. They could fit 2 cars as long as you like crawling out your windows Dukes of Hazzard style. Trying to fit in a...
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The first website is still online (again)
Back in the 90's, everyone wanted their own little corner of the web, and thanks to geocities, tripod, and angelfire, anyone could. Like, literally anyone. You could just jump in and.. make a site....
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Your fast, my slow
Do you ever wonder if some end-user is sitting at their desk right now, eye twitching spasmodically while a screen you helped write takes 30 seconds to load, cursing your name and the names of your...
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What's a word cloud and how do I make one?
You've most likely seen word clouds before, like in the sidebars of various blogs, even if you didn't know what they're called. Those odd pictures with lots of words, in different sizes and colors and...
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Weekend Review #2
It's tough to believe we're in June already. Maybe part of the reason it doesn't feel like it's nearly summer is because our summer rituals haven't really started! Amusement parks aren't open and...
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Surviving or Thriving?
Our collective response to the wuhan coronavirus was like hitting the brakes, pulling the emergency lever, and slamming the transmission into park, all at once. It worked, and we stopped, but there's...
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Microsoft respects our privacy, shows it by invading our privacy
If you have new software and want to let people know while simultaneously respecting their privacy, there's a long list of things you might do. Send an email you obtained licitly and respect opt out...
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