I was thrown in an interesting way during light pre-class randori with one of the blackbelts last evening:
While fighting for grip, tori grabs uke’s right sleeve with his right hand and steps to uke’s right side. Tori uses his left hand to grip uke’s left lapel from underneath uke’s right arm. The throw [...]
Holland America sent us a “Planning & Advice” booklet for our upcoming Alaska trip, one section of which said to register valuables with U.S. Customs to avoid any hassles when re-entering the country. We’re stopping in Vancouver for a couple of days, so we don’t bypass Customs through the Holland America shuttle. On [...]
Here’s a handy chart detailing the various plastics used in packaging and products, identified by their recycling number. It’s handy to figure out what you can do to a given plastic bottle, in terms of heating or storing stuff in it.
I found this chart after a discussion on whether it was safe to microwave [...]
One of those things to tuck away for future reference, in case it’s ever needed.
A question was posted on the company’s technical discussion mailing list, asking what the best way would be to recover data from a failing USB external drive, without resorting to professional data recovery services.
It turned out that chkdsk /f was sufficient, [...]