“Wow, I didn’t see that coming”. That was the line of interior dialog that Martha kept hearing, rolling around her head like a marble trapped in a jar. She hadn’t expected it all to turn out this way. She felt confident that things would have gone differently, but years from now she knew she would …
#27 Monday
It’s Monday again, the work week does start Once more we wish it Friday, with all of our heart But perhaps if we try To revise our view We’ll see it isn’t that hard, to make it through. [SSDay]
Encryption – It’s Not Just For The Paranoid
Recently I purchased a few external hard drives for backup purposes, and the first thing I did with them was to encrypt them using TrueCrypt. When I mention this to people, I generally get a sorta weird look. Sort of a “If you aren’t doing anything illegal [which I’m not, if you care], why do you …
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This is Why You Save Everything Locally!
So earlier this week I was googling something related to SQLite databases, and came across a rather interesting topic on reading them locally using Javascript. At the bottom of the ‘answer’, I found a link to a blog with more information: http://blog.developeronhire.com/create-sqlite-table-insert-into-sqlite-table/ And what did I find when I went there? This: An unhappy message saying …
#26 Flash
It had been 6 months since the day when Mark found the list in an old hoodie he was putting on for the first time that September. It wasn’t too remarkable – just a list of chores for the day, 11 months ago. call insurance agent buy eggs call Kelsey’s school drop off Jo’s car print …
The Bookmarklet Combiner is Awesome – and So Are These Bookmarklets
A bookmarklet is a small piece of javascript code that is run by clicking on a bookmark on your browser’s toolbar. Lots of sites have them, and I use a bunch in my daily life. One thing that’s annoying is the requirement that each has it’s own bookmark on your toolbar – so after 3-4 …
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#25 Road Warrior
He settled into the seat with the drink. “That kinda tastes like chocolate milk”, she said as she glanced over at him. He nodded in reply, and she went back to her papers. He opened up the lid of the laptop and connected the wireless. A few dozen new emails poured into his inbox just …
#24 I Heard It From a Friend
All lines from this poem are lyrics, since songs are simply music and poetry. Each lyric is linked to the song’s YouTube video. I heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from another that I’m winning a hundred men or more‘s thoughts of you. I’ve been searchin’ my soul, I …
#23 Does Dinosaurs Wear Socks?
She sat there quietly, lost in her work. The keyboard clicked away as she wrote another email, the icons growing smaller and smaller on the screen, the more work she did. Pages of text, documents scattered about, and an overflowing table of material. She was working in the library, and seldom noticed even the slight …
#22 Jim the Bunny Learns to Knit
Jim hopped through the forest with a giant grin on his face. He’d just grabbed a bunch of files from Jabberpaw, and had covered his internet tracks by paying off Sylvester the snake. Now he just needed to get home and load up his found files. On the way, he tripped, since he wasn’t the …