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I have spent the last two years learning about galls on plants as well as botany (mainly Oaks). I even built a website for helping ID and catalog the various gall forming species t…

Erroneous 503s. I would get a 503 on every call. Uploading a single file with a single call would immediately 503. I never once got a successful upload. I simply switched the endpo…

I tried, and tried to use Spaces for image hosting related to a site that I am building but it never worked for me. DigitalOcean support was responsive but useless. I got the same …

Piling on the Blackboard is horrible train, my kids school system uses Blackboard, Fairfax County, VA, FCPS. Its true awfulness was on full display when the school system tried to …

A piece of fiction that has never failed to make me think every time I read it, is: The Futurological Congress: From the Memoirs of Ijon Tichy by Stanislaw Lem. One of the tenets o…

I canceled mine after dragging my feet for years and paying way too much all that time. I have been dreading the call required to cancel but it went pretty smoothly. The lady asked…

I just setup Windows on a machine for the first time in a decade, it was a very gross experience indeed. I do recall it asking a series of questions about sending data to MSFT that…

I have been using NewsBlur for years (ever since Google killed Reader). I quite like it.

Having grown up in Bradenton, which is even warmer than Tampa, I understand the heat. However, your statement about 100% humidity and 100 degrees is not possible. If it were everyo…

I was driving back from South Carolina to Northern Virginia the day after the eclipse. The first hours were uneventful, by the time I hit I-81 things got crazy. I had all 3 nav app…

As did I, then I saw the sub-headline of "For one thing, you won’t like IPAs." and I got sad for myself.

Sometimes our favorite SaaS chat services go down. How does your team deal with this? Do you use a self-hosted IRC server? Something else? Especially interested in teams that are r…

Its good the be aware that one component of higher efficiency in an AC/Heat Pump is thinner tubing. Thinner tubing is more prone to develop leaks and costly coil replacements and r…

When the arcades left the malls I stopped going. Then again I also got old and the world changed.

Speeding things up would only make it worse for all of the wrongly convicted. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/innocence-list-those-freed-d...

I just finished the book Acid Test ( http://www.amazon.com/Acid-Test-Ecstasy-Power-Heal/dp/039916... ). The stories about the progress that the lucky individuals, who have been par…

How do you only pay ~$5 for a DC-Baltimore commute?

What about the, "I never trusted Facebook and continue to not use it." option?

Is this the talk that you are referring to? http://slideshot.epfl.ch/play/suri_stonebraker