Month: January 2012
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movie: Chinese Take-Away (2011) – IMDb
Chinese Take-Away (2011) – IMDb Quite a nice comedy.
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The rise of programmable self. Quantifying your changes + motivational hacks = programmable self. by Fred Trotter
The rise of programmable self: Programmable self is a riff on the Quantified Self (QS). It is a simple concept: Quantify what you want to change about yourself + motivational hacks = personal change success. […]
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Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers
Debian passes CentOS as most popular Linux for web servers: During the last year, Debian GNU/Linux and CentOS were the most popular Linux distributions on web servers […]
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What is big data? An introduction to the big data landscape. by Edd Dumbill
What is big data?: Big data is data that exceeds the processing capacity of conventional database systems. The data is too big, moves too fast, or doesn’t fit the strictures of your database architectures. To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it. […]
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Chromium 18.0.1002.0 showed a lot of form fields inverted
That was quite a PITA. Chromium 18.0.1006.0 seems to be fine again. I am very glad.
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vistaprint invoices vs currency characters: it’s safer to print those invoices from their web-site
Flat text invoices – they are really not my favourite, because I anticipate problems with the taxman. The flat text invoices, they send me via e-mail, are even worse: my software says, they are in UTF-8, and that’s my select encoding, but still the EUR character gets displayed as “?”. I doubt, my taxman would…
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To understand the Good Samaritan, you must know a Samaritan was the last person to whom Jews would look for help
The Bad Samaritan – Biblical Archeology Society – Jewish Ideas Daily You can’t understand the story of the Good Samaritan without knowing that a Samaritan was the last kind of person to whom a Jew would look for help. Amy-Jill Levine, Biblical Archeology Society.
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Google Chrome extension “Scraper”
Chrome Web Store – Scraper A really nice and useful utility. Looks like it currently deals deal perfectly with spanning columns, but then … something must remain for the human factor.