Fri: May 11, 2012

After seeing no hint of a fox for the past 6 months or so I caught a small new one taking a nap in my backyard:

Must... Stay... Awake...     #>


md5verify: A script to automatically verify file integrity. Written in Python. If bash is a little more your speed try MD5 Tool. I'm going to run md5verify against my photo archive so I can find out if any hard drive corruption is happening before I back things up...     #>


Salida Mountain Trails. I'm planning to get up there and mountain bike this summer.     #>


Shoot Your Own Google Earth-style Aerial Photos with the E382 Drone Kit. Six hundred bucks seems like a bargain for something like this, I would have thought it was in the thousands.     #>


Re-Growing Celery: Grow a New Bunch Indoors or Outdoors. Interesting.     #>


LightPlot: A Robotic Arm That Creates Animated Light Paintings. Very cool.     #>


WiFi Pineapple Mark IV. Interesting. Fortunately my phone and laptop only have 2 networks that they auto-connect to and I'd notice right away if I was traveling and came across either of those names, but still a danger for say a hotel where that could easily be spoofed.     #>


Why Publishers Don't Like Apps. *I* don't like them because they lock you to the iPad, which is over-priced and locked-down too much for my tastes.     #>


Free Kindle Books. While the headline sounds like a scam it's actually a website that scrapes Amazon.com and compiles a single page of the top free books for the Kindle. And then a quick trip through Calibre and they can be read on anything, not just the Kindle...     #>


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