Quick guide to making PDFs with text outlines from HTML

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Create the HTML document. <html> <body style="margin: 0; padding: 0"> <div style="width: 2in; height: 2in; ...

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I'm going to miss that man.

Response to Tom Hoffman's "Peter Greene on Tenure"

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Response to "The threat of firing is the great 'Do this or else...'" in Tom Hoffman's Peter Greene on Tenure : On t...

Inner curmudgeon awoken

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My inner curmudgeon was awoken this morning when I read of yet another OS X application for note taking with cloud storage and a correspondi...

I want a Markdown "during-view"

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I like that Markdown and its kin have been adopted by more than just the geek community. The simple inline directives do not take away the f...

I am not going to create another account just to use your feature

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Dear Marco, I really like the audio tools included in Overcast , but I am not going to create another account just to use them. I read th...

What would one use programming for if programming were easy?

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I stopped by Slashdot today and found Normal Humans Effectively Excluded From Developing Software . I read it and many of the comments and s...

Logging and the utility of message patterns

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I wrote a logging layer over log4j sometime ago. The layer was to encourage our developers to log at any point in the code where they though...

Basic human concern for the welfare of others

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I had a surreal moment this morning while walking Milo at our usual spot. A car was found in the nearby pond. (I later found out that two ca...

A gnuplot example

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If you searched for Gnuplot in this blog you know I am a fan of the tool. It is easy to install, somewhat easy to use, and very likely some...

Atlassian has forgotten that Jira is a communication tool

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Atlassian has forgotten that Jira is a communication tool. Comments need numbers so the team can communicate with specificity everywhere. Se...

No more chickens

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The last of our chickens were attacked last night. Two dead and one so badly mauled that it had to be put down. Our home is once again witho...

Restic to the flame

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I bought a copy of Dreadball earlier this year mostly to have a sports boardgame that Henry and I could play. (Owen is happy playing non-sp...

Walter Dean Myers and Henry

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I was very sad to hear that Walter Dean Myers died today. While he wrote for young adults I enjoyed reading them as did my son Henry. It wa...

Skype and development teams

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My employer extensively uses Skype to coordinate and communicate. (Email is almost unused.) Within a software development team there are som...

Jeff Bigler's tact filter theory

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An oldie, but a goodie. Jeff Bigler's tact filter theory

Wanted: Portable worktop and toolbox

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Leo and I were talking about our first-world troubles of 1) not having a permanent miniatures painting station and 2) the that the temporary...

Using standard open dialog box in NetBeans

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You can have NetBeans use OS X's standard open dialog instead of the poor Swing alternative. To do this, update your "netbeans.conf...

iPhones and camera lens lint

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My iPhone 5 has lint between the camera lens and the external housing. I had the same problem with my iPhone 3G. Is this a common problem fo...

Using greenstuff

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I am about to convert a female fantasy figure into a dark age warrior. I have clipped off the fantasy weapon, modified a hand to hold a swo...