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How will the US midterms and Brazil elections in October / November affect current immigration and visa issues between these 2 (large) countries.

I have this book. It’s fantastic.

del.icio.us was my favorite tool on the internet for a few years (perhaps even still in retrospect). And not far off from the same functionality as Facebook (today). Why purchase s…

Translate your “taboo” question into Chinese first. You will get a completely different answer ;).

Some may be able to calibrate their hearing in this regard with something called Auditory Integration Training. I have done it. It worked. You might also want to read more about CA…

Still have the manuals at home on my bookshelf. Great examples of technical writing and explaining how the world is changing.

I sell traffic lights. What you consider a “green” light in the USA is actually called “blue green”. I believe the reason for this is increased visibility for older drivers.

Am so tired of Windows 11 I’ve just started writing my own desktop / toolbars / windows / struts using X11. It’s more than good enough and not much more difficult than writing weba…

I was not being as specific as latitude/longitude, exact time of the day, or “planetary alignments” … only the season or birth month (or perhaps week if you want to get loco). Much…

There are epigenetic markers which can identify the season or perhaps even month you were born. If you might think there is a link between personality and birth order and that perh…

Anyone can do something like this now by searching Google or asking Clippy. The act of double-checking what the interface suggests is the same as doing the thinking and work manual…

WinGopher "Complete" ... $129.00 ... https://librarytechnology.org/document/7548

Being able to script buttons in my browser's toolbars is a feature I miss (circa the Jetpack era of Firefox). It greatly increased my productivity. Doing some of this now on my Lin…

Sinistar had a number of industry firsts … for the stereo/surround sound and the joystick at least … however it was released just before this market tanked in the early 80’s. Chill…

chess jokes. grow arugula.

First learned programming in Turbo Pascal and have fond memories of that IDE. Thanks for posting this. Would love to learn of a framework for reconfiguring this UX to do whatever I…

here's a little wrapper around i made around "find" which i always have to install on every new box i manage .... https://github.com/figital/fstring (just shows you more useful det…

here’s a version of ‘find’ I use quite often …… I usually download it to run as “fstring”. it outputs the file name and the string match: https://github.com/figital/fstring

UPS Freight has never really been “UPS” even though they sort of share the same computer systems and branding. Their quality of service has also always been much lower (at least in…

I typed in a basic text query to "count reps per account". Then I clicked the visualize button ... no re-visualization. This is an extremely basic feature in every visual query too…

It's a large ram pump ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6koHqPM_zxg

I'd rather give excess power to my neighbors for free or just waste it on a giant spinning pinwheel than "sell" it back to the power company. No mention of local battery storage by…

Gonick & Smith remarkably make statistics fun and even easy to explain to other people. So glad I stumbled into it at a garage sale a few years ago. I should pick up their other bo…

To the best of my basic knowledge (and as mentioned here already) EEG isn't going to be super-useful for a consumer device like this ... HEG (infrared detection of oxygen levels) i…

There's been a product on the market for several years called "TED" ... something seemed fishy when Google killed the data monitoring service ... http://www.google.com/powermeter/ …