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Healthcare Sign Up: New and Improved
I signed up for healthcare coverage for 2015 at Healthcare.gov. Unlike last year, absolutely no problems with the system. The only hiccup occurred with United Healthcare when I tried to review its...
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Ferguson: STFU
Our Governor Jay Nixon has decided to roll out the troops by declaring a state of emergency before the Ferguson Grand Jury decision. As LOLGOP tweeted:Nothing says you trust your institutions and...
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Ferguson: Media, You Are Hurting Us
The story read that the FBI had arrested two New Black Panther members for buying explosives to bomb Ferguson protests. Not long after, though, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted a story that what...
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Torture and Learned Helplessness
I have degrees in computer science and psychology. My senior psychology research project was about "learned helplessness", based on the work by Martin E. P. Seligman. He saw it as the underlying basis...
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Rethinking our Twitter Twitchy Actions
Very interesting piece by Sam Bibble at Gawker on Justine Sacco. Sacco was the PR person who tweeted a bit of satire that blew up in her face, and almost destroyed her career. The problem with Twitter...
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JavaScript Cookbook 2nd Edition: Live and Personal
updateUse BWORM code to get a discount on my JavaScript Cookbook 2nd edition. A very nice discount, too.The second edition of the JavaScript Cookbook just went live at O'Reilly. If you're wondering why...
View Article30 Years Ago: Mount St. Helens
Published five years ago...Thirty years ago I was living at my Dad's in Yakima, going to college. That Sunday was a beautiful day, and Dad was outside in the garden as I was getting ready to go to...
View ArticleFacebook's Astonishing Fail
updateI did find a reference to this type of behavior...from 2010. What I suspect happened is some very old security code accidentally got compiled into the Facebook server app, in relation to the...
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Mind the Scaffolding
I have attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 from 12.04.5 three times, failing each time. The points of failure are complex and seemingly many. I can ignore the necessary upgrade until 12.04.5 hits end...
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Corporate food Production interests yank the chains of Congress in quaking...
Second updateHouse just can't wait to pass this bill. It goes to the Floor on Thursday. Note: there is no comparable bill in the Senate. UpdateIn the ultimate of ironies, the Senate passed an amendment...
View ArticleServer is Moved
Moving to a new VPN (Virtual Private Network) was as simple as signing up for a second Linode instance, and then building it to my specs. Eliminating half the cruft I had on my old system saved about...
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That Wyoming Pond: newest battle between PLF and the EPA
Last year I wrote about a Wyoming family and the big, bad EPA huffing and puffing at their door. Seemingly, the Andy Johnson family was being threatened with outrageous fines, just for putting in a...
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My first "Zoom" set with the Nikon Coolpix P900
Thanks to a little quick action, I was able to snag one of the extremely rare Nikon Coolpix P900. I have a couple of Nikon DSLRs, but I was attracted to the concept of one camera for all purposes....
View ArticleHack your Home
I am very interested in Internet of Things, DIY, and smart home gadgets. I recently created a new web site, Hack Your Home, both because I wanted to grab a .space domain, and because I wanted to record...
View ArticlePut that FOIA down and back away slowly
Latest last updateMy friend Karoli wrote an excellent article on all this fooflah. She has more reach than I do, so hopefully this information will eventually work its way around to the original...
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