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For Sale 1982 Tanzer 7.5 Sailboat $5,000 CDN in Ontario Canada
Posted on September, 16 at 11:57 am | Filed Under Sailing
Its time to move on to a bigger boat so I am selling my 1982 Tanzer 7.5. It comes with a full set of sails (Main, Furling Genoa and Jib). The roller furling equipment is Harken. It was the 7.5 Tanzer in the 1982 Toronto Boat show which is where it was originally purchased by [...]
A little knowledge goes a long way
Posted on July, 9 at 10:06 am | Filed Under Health, Low Carb
To correcting the crazy media angle that always vilifies saturated fat and gives carbs and sugar a free pass. For some reality based critique of ABCs latest anti fat screed, check out Michael R. Eades M.D.
Quick Guide to Mercurial for svn Users
Posted on July, 9 at 9:31 am | Filed Under CM, Python
Ned Batchelder has put together a quick guide to mercurial basic commands for subversion folks who are part of the move from a centralized version control tool like subversion to mercurial, a distributed version control system. You can read it here. Mercurial (and other dvcs tools like git and bzr) seems to be gathering steam [...]
Jython 2.5 and a book!
Posted on July, 2 at 3:17 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jython 2.5, the latest version, is out and available. Get it here: http://www.jython.org/. This brings Jython to compatibility with CPython 2.5 so it can run more python than ever. Additionally, there is an open source Jython book in the works called The Definitive Guide to Jython. The book is a collaboration of multiple people close [...]
Southpark RSC Invite Video
Posted on June, 4 at 5:34 pm | Filed Under CM
Here is the South Park video invite to the RSC 2009 conference incase anyone is looking for it. The video that was up on the big screen today:
A good summary of Gary Taubes
Posted on May, 21 at 7:31 am | Filed Under Health
Here is a good summary of Gary Taubes’ Good Calories Bad Calories with an emphasis on thermodynamics and the general silliness that people gain weight because they eat too many calories.
FatHead Movie – Extra Footage Excerpts
Posted on May, 13 at 7:00 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Tom Naughton is putting up extra footage from his Fat Head Movie that brings in some good interviews around how animal fat was so demonized … inspite of the science. Good stuff … get it here.
Visceral Fat Leads to Depression? More fuzzy diet thinking …
Posted on April, 29 at 3:54 pm | Filed Under Health
Rush University Medical Center researchers have publsihed a study that shows there is a connection between increased belly fat (visceral fat) and a high incidence of depression. Read about it here. For some crazy reason they assme that because there is a relationship between these two conditions, it is the visceral fat that causes [...]
Vitamin E and Male Pattern Baldness
Posted on April, 29 at 11:39 am | Filed Under Health
It seems that there may be a glint of hope for us dome tops … Here is a study linking oral Vitamin E (special kind of Vitamin E I gather) and improved hair growth: Read study here.
Viewing MOD video files using VLC
Posted on April, 3 at 3:18 pm | Filed Under Software
Certain video cameras save their files as .mod files. These are modified mpeg4 files and vlc has built in support for this file type. Install VLC from their website for your platform. Once vlc is installed, you need to delete one file prior to running VLC and viewing the MOD files. First make sure that [...]
Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfed scanner on Ubuntu
Posted on April, 3 at 3:11 pm | Filed Under Asus eee
Just a quick post to remind me how to setup the Plustek OpticSlim M12 sheetfed scanner on Ubuntu. This is actually the scanner used by NeatReceipts, which i have purchased. Their software, though, is less useful to me and i have been looking for a way to use their very travel friendly sheet fed scanner [...]
Jython 2.5 nears release – Beta 3 is out
Posted on March, 10 at 9:08 pm | Filed Under Jython
Things seem to be settling in for Jython 2.5. Frank Wierzbicki announced that Beta 3 is out of the oven.
Good Gary Taubes Interview – Science of Low Carb
Posted on March, 6 at 7:34 pm | Filed Under Low Carb
Gary Taubes on Getting Your Money’s Worth.
Lighter Linux Web Browser for Netbooks
Posted on February, 21 at 1:15 am | Filed Under Web Tools
My penchant for firefox plugins has had a notable effect on its size and performance of late, so I’ve poked around looking for lighter weight browsers. I still use firefox now and then, but I need something for every day browsing, running Google apps, and so on. I initially tried Opera, but it didn’t run [...]
Why is common wisdom so …. uncommon?
Posted on February, 19 at 7:34 pm | Filed Under Reading
Please go watch Barry Schartz at Ted … and then ask yourself “What have we changed to make common wisdom so uncommon?”
Mobile Jython – Jythonroid
Posted on January, 19 at 10:48 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
Jythonroid is a build of Jython now available for your Android based phone. Cool! I wonder if we will get android based phone up in the frozen north any time soon…
Tacoma Travel Notes – Mad Hat Tea Company
Posted on January, 14 at 12:06 am | Filed Under Travel
Just found a gem of a tea shop in old Tacoma. Mad Hat Tea Company is a great find for tea aficionados. Managed to stock up on Rooibos tea and pick up this great travel friendly tea infuser / tea cup. Highly recommended!
Best Replacement Shell for CMD on Windows XP?
Posted on December, 12 at 12:31 pm | Filed Under Python, Web Tools
I’m looking for a replacement shell, preferably free, for Windows XP’s cmd.exe. I have considered cygwin, but am really looking for something that is still windows-ish … Google turns up a few options that are for pay … Any recommendations out there? If it could be extended with Python, that would be perfect …
Launchy Available on Linux
Posted on December, 10 at 12:56 am | Filed Under Asus eee
Super charge your linux environment with Launchy the best program launcher for Windows .. now available for linux. If you are running Ubuntu-eee download and install the deb file. Works like a charm!
Turn your Asus eee into an XBMC Media Center
Posted on December, 9 at 8:11 pm | Filed Under Asus eee, Travel
Since I am running Ubuntu-eee on my Asus eee 900, I figured I would try out media players. The eee works nicely as a video player for those long flights from the west coast. VLC works pretty well, but my personal favourite is the Xbox Media Center. It installs fine onto Ubuntu-eee and playback and [...]
What Makes Managing Component Based Development Hard?
Posted on December, 8 at 5:39 am | Filed Under Jython, Python, Software
I’m looking for input on where the management problems are for building large scale applications with reusable components. Reusable software components are a pretty established development pattern and are used across the software development language landscape. Lately, this area has experienced a boon of growth as component development became married with service oriented architecture and [...]
What is software development? Lets be Poets!
Posted on December, 4 at 3:12 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
I’ve been saying for a while now that software engineering is a social activity … and now Mark Ramm picks up a similar bone and points out that software development is really building a product to be understood by both a computer and other human participants. These days we are beginning to understand that the [...]
Python Turns 3.0
Posted on December, 4 at 1:56 am | Filed Under Jython, Python
Python 3.0 final is out and available! Hurray! Hurry out and get it.
Never Check Your Luggage … especially at large airports
Posted on December, 2 at 4:27 pm | Filed Under Travel
Ok, this is likely advice that seasoned travellers don’t need to hear, but, in the past we didn’t check luggage so it wouldn’t get lost. It also made for a faster exit at the other end. Now, though, there is another reason. Thanks to all the TSA security for checked luggage, there are many more [...]
Netbeans Python Edition
Posted on December, 2 at 2:45 pm | Filed Under Jython, Python, Web Tools
An early access edition of Netbeans with Python support is available here. Current features in Netbeans for Python include: Folding Code Semantic Code Highlighting Renaming / refactoring Code Completion Smart Indent /Outdent Debugger Includes Jython 2.5 Beta 3, but can use any Python on your system. There is lots more to come, including support for [...]
