When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re…
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At originaldougal, we care about your privacy. Your connection to originaldougal.com is now secured with 256-bit Secure Socket Layer encryption. The connection uses TLS 1.0, encrypted using AES_256_CBC, with SHA1 for message authentication and DHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism. In short,…
up and running with Google Earth Flight Simulator Online
I’m excited about Google Earth Flight Simulator Online (GEFS). It’s an online flight simulator based on Google Earth that runs in a web browser. Features: Built on Google Earth: worldwide photo-realistic sceneries Simulate fixed wing aircraft, helicopter, paraglider and hot…
search & replace tabs, returns, wildcards and more in Microsoft Office
You can search for and replace with these invisible characters in Microsoft Office 2010 Find & Replace functions: ^? – wildcard character ^# – wildcard number ^p – paragraph mark ^t – tab ^l – line break ^s – non-breaking…
beautiful engines
Even if you’re not a gear-head, perhaps you can enjoy the aesthetic quality of these engines. These are machines designed to convert the oxygen in air and mixed-in fuel into rotational power. Most people don’t see their engines very often,…
the lovely prose innovates the regret
This is a post that might check to see if search engines have spidered it. This sentence has no hits on Google at the time of writing. Perhaps I can search for it later. Pootwattle’s intemperate yet persuasive attack on…
notable quotes about science
What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking through a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on. Jacques Cousteau When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a…
ms. data
I saw that the entire series Star Trek: The Next Generation is now available on Netflix streaming. I’m not that into the show, but I remember being fascinated with the ideas about the nature of androids presented in the show.…