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West Entrance to Maker Faire 08 [© CC-BY-SA-3.0 Jon Davis](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maker_Faire_2008_San_Mateo_Entrance.JPG) This year the Wikimedia Foundation is going to be there again! Of course that means we need volunteers. If you’re in the SF Bay Area and a Wikimedian, you should volunteer to help out at the booth. You can find more info about it on…
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Least I Could Do on the Kindle (© Blind Ferret Entertainment) One of the interesting possible uses of the Kindle DX is to “give them away” free with a year (or longer) subscription to a major newspaper. Many people have thought of this, in fact it was used as part of the plot line for…
View Larger Map General Area: Past the Calaveras Reservoir — Sunol to Milpitas Difficulty: Advanced Riders Ride Length: 15 Miles (Up to 1 Hour) Scenery: Up on a hill side overlooking the Reservoir or strolling through some farm lands. Special Notes: I don’t recommend this ride to anyone just starting riding (or just getting back…
==Background== The other week Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty was officially released, to my great enjoyment! Of course, I’d already been running it for a while on my ASUS Eee PC 1000. The one issue I had with it was that the Ubuntu Netbook Remix Alpha that I downloaded was for i386, and the Eee runs an…
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Recently, we’ve had an upwelling of spam at the office. The most problematic component of which is the fact that all the text is gibberish with only the images being “Spam”. If your spam filter doesn’t have an OCR plugin, it’s not going to do a very good job stopping the spam — which is…
I’d like to introduce yet another of my half ass’d concepts of “regular programming”. This one is motorcycle related (::small cheer::). Basically in my random wanderings around wherever the hell it is I’m wandering, I’ve found a few nice/interesting/challenging/etc rides. Generally they aren’t too long, just short trips that I think are worth while that…