Monday, April 25, 2005

NBRC : Other superadobe buildings
The Mongol devastations - signandsight: "When soldier Jack Couffer walked among the houses of the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah in 1943, which, according to the Air Force 'correspond to the type of housing in which 80 percent of the German industrial population lives', he started imagining things. 'I looked in the empty windows and imagined with terrible clarity that the houses were inhabited, bursting with life, with people walking through the narrow alleys on their way to and from the factories, street traders, shoppers, children playing. It is easier to set a sterile place like that on fire if you whisk such fantasies away'. The coming air war was no longer to be won with scruples. "
Walkway Mold - Belgian Stone
Then each went to his own home ? Tags: Database schemas

Friday, April 22, 2005

WordPress Tutorials: "Overview:

WordPress uses the 'secret address' method to post by email. You have to create a new email address on your web host's mail server, and then change some settings in WordPress. You also have to regularly check the page wp-mail.php for new mails to post to the blog. You need to create a sufficiently secretive email account to prevent the possibility of SPAM messages being posted on your blog. This is also addressed in this How-To."

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

MySQL Manual | 3.3.3 Loading Data into a Table: "After creating your table, you need to populate it. The LOAD DATA and INSERT statements are useful for this."
MySQL Cheat Sheet
Load Data Infile syntax

what worked:

LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE "fall_2005_mysql.txt" INTO TABLE Fall05;

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Monday, April 11, 2005

Groundspeak Forums -> Gps With Mac's: "First of all, I should say all this takes place with a 12 inch, G4 iBook with an 800 Mhz processor, 256 MB RAM, and Panther 10.3.3. Thankfully, OS 9 did not have to come into play at ANY point.

I have a Garmin eTrex, the regular ol' yellow base model which ran about 100 bucks when I bought it a few years ago. My first task in marrying the iBook and eTrex was purchasing the proper cabling, and the cavemen from prehistory who make GPS data cables still work with 9-pin serial ports. That would be great if this was 1997, but nowadays most Macs are strictly USB and Firewire. So i needed 1) a GPS data cable that ran from the back of the eTrex to a female 9-pin serial connect and 2) an adapter to plug that 9-pin serial into a USB port. "
Garmin connector assembly: "Lets make a PC cable ... for Mac see below.
The pin-out for the 45 is found in Appendix F ( page 55 ) of the GPS 45 Owner's Manual & Reference, and Dr. V's great graphic below. Notice the view (in your manual) is the 'cable view' as if looking at the connector on the cable from ... um, which direction?... very confusing. Not a problem with Dr. T.V.'s super diagram, take note Garmin! (... UPDATE: Garmin has improved with every new model! Congrats Garmin! ) Notice the position of the key-way notch. Notice if you get power and ground backwards you will make your new GPS all black inside! (... more updates: I've put and - and R and T right in the mold so you can check it easy ... Congrats to Me! )

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Garmin connector assembly: "Lets make a PC cable ... for Mac see below.
The pin-out for the 45 is found in Appendix F ( page 55 ) of the GPS 45 Owner's Manual & Reference, and Dr. V's great graphic below. Notice the view (in your manual) is the 'cable view' as if looking at the connector on the cable from ... um, which direction?... very confusing. Not a problem with Dr. T.V.'s super diagram, take note Garmin! (... UPDATE: Garmin has improved with every new model! Congrats Garmin! ) Notice the position of the key-way notch. Notice if you get power and ground backwards you will make your new GPS all black inside! (... more updates: I've put and - and R and T right in the mold so you can check it easy ... Congrats to Me! )

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Thursday, April 07, 2005

New Scientist Features - Life's top 10 greatest inventions: "The eye

THEY appeared in an evolutionary blink and changed the rules of life forever. Before eyes, life was gentler and tamer, dominated by sluggish soft-bodied worms lolling around in the sea. The invention of the eye ushered in a more brutal and competitive world. Vision made it possible for animals to become active hunters, and sparked an evolutionary arms race that transformed the planet."

Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Interview: 43Folders' Merlin Mann : Lifehacker"God knows you better not try to install Firefox and Greasemonkey on your box at work, right? That weird little MIS guy with the cape and the pet snake might totally ream you out for putting anything on your PC that he didn’t expressly approve. And—as most of us eventually learn the hard way—life’s too short to argue with people in capes."

Monday, April 04, 2005

SwishMax: "Swishzone has been laboring down under for at least 2 years retooling the popular Swish 2 into SwishMax and in the process have proved they understand aspects of animation better than their Macromedian mentors - Flash is more than data processing - its roots are rich media and animation."