Month: January 2015
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fitness trackers and their vast inaccuracies
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2925963/The-fitness-gadgets-make-fatter-claim-count-calories-burn-test-shows-theyre-wildly-inaccurate.html
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what’s the future of the digital CV and résumé?
There are nice approaches out there, but we do not only need formats and schemas, but we certainly need “stylesheets” resp. target format generators.
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hr-xsl – a set of XSL scripts to produce a formatted CV or résumé from an HR-XML source document
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hr-xsl/ http://sourceforge.net/p/hr-xsl/news/2010/02/hr-xsl-is-now-inactive/ – abandoned – what a pity https://github.com/zeliboba/HR-XSL – just the same and as abandoned
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“truely – archaic spelling of truly” – en.Wiktionary.org
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/truely https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_archaic_forms – if you want to check your vocabulary I had no idea, that “truely” is rather outdated. My e-mail spellchecker underlined it in read, so I thought, I should look it up.
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it is 2015, and it looks, as if I got my CV in “xmlresume” functional once again
My script wanted to use xmlmind.com’s xslutil_perso-4_3_1, but I did not have that on my current Linux machine. I thought, that there would always be a free variant of xlsutil – for just personal usage. But nowadays they only let you download xslutil_eval-5_1_0 for free, and they say it creates double characters on purpose – something you don’t…
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“resume formats” on the Microformats wiki
http://microformats.org/wiki/resume-formats
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I got my “FRITZ!Box + LTE-Modem” set-up re-established again
FRITZ!Box 7490 Huawei E3372 “Surfstick” knows LTE and also UMTS (and so forth (I think)) http://www.amazon.de/Huawei-E3372-Modem-microSD-weiss/product-reviews/B00M2JO9LI – these reviewers (and also myself) confirm, that these 2 devices work together well I had lost that modem (together with its SIM card) a couple of months ago, but I got new ones right now, and everything is fine…
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a Joe Jackson playlist on YouTube
I remember a time in the 1980-s, where I needed that music played loud on my Sony “Walkman” – and that wasn’t funny – it was about life and death – and Joe Jackson’s music comforted me then my dear brother had introduced me to that music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKr2n-9p7WM&list=PLBEB68E746C4E2CF7 http://www.youtube.com/v/fKr2n-9p7WM&list=PLBEB68E746C4E2CF7
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how to deal with abandoned foreign wikis – export+import their relevant articles
http://www.b.shuttle.de/hayek/mediawiki/w/index.php?title=Main_Page#foreign_wiki_articles_living_here.2C_their_local_categories export the wiki articles in question (together with their history) to a nice XML “tarball” (or whatever) import them to your own wiki categorise them as “imported from which website” for every such category create a TOC this is such a pleasant way of dealing with the problem