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Pork

We eat quite a bit of pork and since we’re both from farming backgrounds, figured we’d take a stab at growing some. Living in the city doesn’t really allow it (we’re trying to move where we could), but luckily some farmer friends grew some for us. They tend to grow rather quickly over the year, [...]

Some Nerve

(My Violent Wife by Jesse Gardner from Flickr)

Guns, I am told, are dangerous. But women are dangerous, too.

I’ve always enjoyed reading K.G. Schneider’s writing (and presentations) and her essay for Nerve is no different. If you haven’t already given it a read you should. I’ve been an occasional reader of Nerve and they tend to [...]

Boxes

Audio is NSFW. Full series on Coudal.

Some Farming

One of the benefits of knowing lots of farmers is the ability to buy local or from small farms where you have at least of an idea where things are coming from. Quite a few of our meals this summer have been completely from either our garden or from relatives’ farms. Besides plenty of pheasant, [...]

Slidecast

I missed it earlier but you now have the ability to sync audio with slides at slideshare. It’s a nice addition for those who can do audio of presentations but not video for whatever reason. Here’s the overview:

Wesabe Snapshots

I’ve talked before about Wesabe and that I use it for some of my finances. They’ve added a new feature which is probably one of the most useful things I’ve used recently. It’s called Browser Snapshots and it uses a Firefox extension to let you capture images of receipt screens and upload them straight to [...]

Quick History of the Internet

The Internet Crash of 2007

Breaking News: All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash

Wordpress 2.2

Most users have probably already seen it but thought I might point out some of the changes that look really useful. I’m still a huge fan of Wordpress.

You can now set your site’s “home” and “siteurl” values in the wp-config.php file. Meaning you can copy the DB easily between a test and live instance without [...]

EnrageComp

I’d probably have to agree:

I hope ubicomp really does take a hundred years. That way I’ll be spared the indignity of having to use it.

It’s worth reading the full post. The examples seem too familiar.

magnetosphere

If you use iTunes for music check out the magnetosphere visualizer. Be sure to hit ‘m’ to cycle through a few of the modes. I tried taking screenshots but you should just try it out and see it in motion

National Homebrew Day - May 5th

If you didn’t know May 5th this year is National Homebrew Day, also known as Big Brew. It is actually a holiday recognized by congress, despite some states still being a little anti-homebrewing. Many clubs and breweries organize brewing demonstrations with the nationally chosen recipes. There is also a simultaneous toast at noon Central Time, [...]

Spring Cleaning

I’ve been under the weather for the last week or so. The random weather here in Michigan isn’t helping. It looks like it might be warming up more permanently now, although the greenhouse says they expect one more cold snap (so aren’t selling an vegetables yet).

The garden will likely have to wait but I was [...]

Listening to Words

Just came across the listeningtowords site which is collecting information on the lectures available on the web in audio or video. There’s a lot of great content online, especially with more and more universities and colleges adding their lectures to iTunes and the like. It’s nice to see sites like this that may make them [...]

The Zimmers

From youtube:

Lead singer Alf is 90 - it’s quite something when he sings “I hope I die before I get old”. And he’s not the oldest - there are 99 and 100-year-olds in the band!

The Zimmers will feature in a BBC TV documentary being aired in May 2007. Documentary-maker Tim Samuels has been all over [...]

Virtual Spam

There’s no escape from spam, no matter what world your in.

RIP Kurt Vonnegut

From BBC news:

One of the outstanding figures of modern US literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died aged 84 in New York….He suffered brain injuries after a fall at his home in Manhattan and died on Wednesday, said his wife Jill Krementz.

And there’s also the Wikipedia Article

Quantum Gravity Computation

Some articles that may interest some. Referenced from a recent article in New Scientist. Subscription is required to read the New Scientist online, but the articles themselves are available on arxiv:

The Computational universe: Quantum gravity from quantum computation.
Seth Lloyd (MIT, LNS) . Jan 2005. 31pp.
Submitted to Science

Quantum gravity computers: On the Theory of [...]

Wordpress Update

If you run wordpress make sure you have the latest version as there was a compromised download on their site. If you use the SVN update method then you should be unaffected but there is a new version regardless. I just updated here via SVN without a problem.