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By Dave, September 18, 2007 3:54 pm

Ancient Records Help Test Climate Change

Good read.

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By Dave, September 18, 2007 3:39 pm

Schoolgirl’s “Smog Hog” Cuts Air Pollution (TreeHugger)

Good idea. I suspect that the process to reduce the liquid to a solid to burn will require a bit more work to remove some of the more toxic products before it can safely be burned in a house.

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By Dave, September 18, 2007 3:24 pm

French art from 1910 depicting the year 2000 – Boing Boing

Interesting stuff. Gonna have to go to Google and do the translate thing on the site so I can read what these are about (mangled French and all). 😉

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By Dave, September 18, 2007 3:19 pm

Speed Hacker: Toy Radar Gun Hacked and Made into the Real Thing – Gizmodo

Cool hack!

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By Dave, September 18, 2007 3:17 pm

BRio – The Brazilian Flying Boat

Tis certainly different. Not that I would go up in one of those things…

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By Dave, September 14, 2007 11:48 pm

dreamstate – Currently ranting about PC World

A new chapter in the saga of the faulty hinge mount. Looks like PC World only hires folks with bad attitudes. The Linux voids the warranty line about hardware problems is stupid (and I suspect illegal) but it seems to be company policy with these folks whether their head office claims otherwise or not.

I’m waiting for the video. 😉

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By Dave, September 14, 2007 5:13 pm

Groklaw – SCO Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy

Well, here’s the news that I have been expecting to see. Would like it better if it was a going out of business/fire sale but this is close. Guess they are trying to beat Novel to the mark so they will only get pennies on the dollar when the smoke clears…

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By Dave, September 14, 2007 9:32 am

Been working from the iBook (with the external hard drive) for the past while (months it seems), trying to get my head together enough to figure out how and what to do to fix the linux machine. Yesterday seemingly was the time. Got it up and running with a PCLOS 2007 bootable cd and copied the files from the going bad 30gb hd to the storage drive. Then took the 30 gb drive out and put a 10gb in and installed PCLOS. Rebooted, reconfigured and am back up and going.

Main reason was to scan as there are only 2 USB ports on the iBook and with the mouse in one and keyboard in the other there’s no place left for the scanner. Anyway now I can scan more book covers and get back to working on the Nero Wolfe site.

Feel worse today than I did yesterday. Suspect that I am a couple of days behind Cat with this bug, and she was in bed all day yesterday. Got the 2 steps away from normal feeling, which started late last night. Hoping it will go away soon.

More as I feel up to it… 🙁

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By Dave, September 13, 2007 11:45 am

Awoke this am to find a large number of hits on this site. Turns out that Morris, the fellow with the broken hinge mount, noted my comment on his problem and put a link to it on his site. Thanks for the link! His site can be found at http://www.dreamstate.eu/ for those of you who wish to follow his ordeal.

Also awoke to find that the update I did at The Nero Wolfe Site had managed to break most of the picture links, which is a BIG thing on that site as it is mostly dealing with the cover art of books in the Nero Wolfe series by Rex Stout. So after trying it figure out what I had done originally to get them to show up (2+ years ago and my memory is much like swiss cheese but with more holes) I went back to the old theme (which had displayed quite broken yesterday) and for some reason it worked right off. Had to add some of the new tracking code and scripts in here and there, but considering what I had done to get the pix to show up in the first place and what I would have had to do to get them back in now, tis no biggie. I’m gonna leave the old theme in place for now and just start redoing the entire pile of covers on another of my sites in a sub domain. Hate to loose the work and the domain but that one is coming up for renewal in Dec and I ain’t gonna spring for another year. Just ain’t worth it as there has been NO income from the site in the entire time I have had it online, so fark it…

I’m trying to decide what path to take on the new site. I want to sell books on it as well as showcase my collection but I don’t want to limit it to just the Nero Wolfe series so I need to decide on whether to use blogging, content management, e-commerce, or what kind of software. I’m more comfortable with WordPress but adding the code to each post to sell via paypal can be a bit of a bother. But the amount of crap that you have to go through to get the data into some of the other programs can be worse so gonna have to cognate a bit more on it. Comments and ideas are more than welcome.

Both of us have been down with something (still or again, not sure which) after having a couple of days getting things done. I’ve been mostly house bound and doing nothing requiring being upright for the last 3. Cat is doing the bed thing today. I’m upright but just barely. Guess I will post this and then go unlock the far gate so should anyone need to get in they can. Then will most likely come back and poke at the computer some more.

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 3:45 pm

PC World denies Linux warranty void – ZDNet UK

Yep, reinstalling that crap Window$ bloatware will sure-nuff be required to fix that broken hinge mount. IDIOTS!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:35 am

The Essence of Nearly Anything, Drop by Limpid Drop – New York Times

Sounds good. Gonna have to try it sometime soon.

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:34 am

Nature Photography: Meerkats – Better at Acting in Nature Shows than Photography – Gizmodo

Nuff said… 😉

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:29 am

Survey: Are You a Retro-Progressive? (TreeHugger)

Yes.

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:26 am

Working Hard: Testing the HappyVappy Vaporizer – Gizmodo

Now we know what the folks at Gizmodo REALLY test. Love the peanut butter from the spoon toward the end! Probably not safe for work.

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:23 am

IT Crowd Season 2, Episode 3: Great anti-piracy PSA sendup – Boing Boing

Just a link to help get the word out. Another great show!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:21 am

Brass Goggles » Blog Archive » The House on the Rock, Accidently Steampunk

Totally awesome! Well worth the time to just look through the pictures. Great stuff!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:16 am

Nero Wolfe

My Nero Wolfe paperback covers site. Not that I have done anything with it in ages. Just a link to possibly remind myself to got off the back of my lap and do something to/with it…

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:14 am

The Sietch Blog » This Is But One Small Scene From My Perfect World

A video of moving via bikes. Cool stuff!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:06 am

The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century › Your Gordon Ramsay Fix

The scrambled eggs look good. Am gonna have to try to do some this way soon!

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By Dave, September 12, 2007 10:03 am

Home-made Sun Jar – Instructables

Interesting idea and construction. Some of the folks in the comments have different designs that are cool too.