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The existing stereo in the car has to go. It’s the stock Honda one, a simple tape deck with a radio, and it doesn’t work very well. We’re … Continue reading »

This is Alton Brown’s recipe for quickly roasting a chicken. The NYT Food section had a similar recipe, though they didn’t name the cutting technique as “butterflying”. In … Continue reading »

Yesterday, I had the displeasure of installing Oracle 9i (9.2.0.whatever) on one servers in the collection of soon-to-be demo machines. Some comments about this: 1. There’s the years-outstanding issue of … Continue reading »

I’ve put in this category count hack, to show the number of postings for each category.

I just implemented the most excellent B2 Link Manager, so that most of the various links on the side bar can be stored in the DB, as opposed to being … Continue reading »

The Wall Street Journal article on Tivo picking out weird suggestions. That, or Tivo suggestions as images of the self. Something like that.

For some reason, I got it into my head this morning to run an ego search, i.e., search for your name on Google (or, in the past, Altavista, say). … Continue reading »

So, at the end of yesterday’s class, as I was doing back-and-forth-roundhouse with Mitsu, I threw him ippon and I heard a riiipppp. I looked down, and thought, crap: … Continue reading »

Here’s a link for the MTA neighborhood maps, those really detailed street maps that show such things as subway station entrances. You can find the poster-sized maps near the … Continue reading »

I looked this up because we have a combination lock that I’ve forgotten the combination for. I remembered that this brand of MasterLock was trivially cracked in Stuyvesant — … Continue reading »