According to Gizmodo, a lot of people apparently are in the habit of cleaning house in the nude. They might or might not like this high-concept countertop juicer. Chacon a son gout, as the French say, or “Some people like goats(e).” Does not come with unicorn chaser. Kitchen Gadgets: Juicer Hugs Countertops, But Look Out! – Gizmodo
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Boing Boing: Happy Sysadmin Day, Ken! Today is the last Friday in July and that makes it Sysadmin Appreciation Day! As I said in my acceptance speech when I won the Locus Award for my story, When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth: Systems administrators are the unsung heroes of the twenty first century, our tireless morlocks who keep the entire universe running. The best sysadmins I’ve met treat their jobs as holy callings. They understand that they’re keeping the infrastructure of the information age alive and functional. Hey, I did not know this. My husband David is a kind of sysadmin…
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Boing Boing: Symphony for old IBM mainframe In 1964, an Icelandic IBM 1401 mainframe engineer figured out how to get the machine to emit beautiful, bassy notes, and composed a symphony for it. Now his son is touring the symphony with interpretive dance thrown in. I’m blogging this for my husband David, who says he’s heard the symphony but may not have heard about the dance video that goes with it. He’s pretty deeply involved with the IBM midrange community, so the backstory may be familiar to him. The dance video is a disappointment; the image above makes it look…
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I am so SMRT! OpenNTF.org – Print attachments with OLE Automation I can’t believe it, I got a Lotusscript working that prints file attachments from selected emails! It almost worked “out of the box” from this website, but the comments included additional clues, and I ended up registering so that I could ask a couple of specific questions. In the meantime, I learned a tiny bit about how to load a Lotuscript – and even how to remove whitespace so that it’s properly formed (not difficult, as Lotus has highlighting all set up so you know when you’ve gone wrong).…
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The Braid Blog – Two Communities Coming Together To Make… Oh, my Dog. Well, the old Holy Moly blog from holy-innocents.org has now been refurbished and pointed to the new onebreadonebody.org site. Redirected, too. The new site has a paltry “click here for more news and events” link on just the main page. Will have to inquire about having a “Blog” link added to the links template on the side as well. This was complicated; I didn’t realize David had upgraded the HI blog installation to WordPress 2.2, while this site is still at 2.1, pending a few plugins that…
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My husband David has been saying this for years: if he could only give his "geek code" when calling Dell for customer service, so that he immediately gets transferred "up the line" to a higher level tech service representative from the get-go. Dell considers dividing support for geeks, grandmas | Chicago Tribune Dell Inc., sued earlier this week by the New York attorney general for its sales and service practices, is considering creating dedicated support teams that would focus on customers with different computer skills. Customers are being asked to vote on the idea of separate service for "geeks to…
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Dept. of Archeology: Fragmentary Knowledge: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker Other artifacts included bronze fittings for wooden furniture, pottery, an oil lamp, and item 15087—a shoebox-size lump of bronze, which appeared to have a wooden exterior. Inside were what seemed to be fused metal pieces, but the bronze was so encrusted with barnacles and calcium that it was difficult to tell what it was. With so much early excitement focussed on the sculptures, the artifact didn’t receive much attention at first. But one day in May, 1902, a Greek archeologist named Spyridon Staïs noticed that the wooden exterior had…
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This is the closest approximation I can find to what was "liberated" for me at work: It needs a power cord (though there may be one already at the desk it's at that fits) and probably needs new ink cartridges. No telling if it works – would need a phone/data cable to attempt to hook it up. The pillager who found it for me mentioned in passing that the "fax part is busted." We'll see about that once I get a chance to find the online documentation. Buy supplies for Officejet 6110 direct from the HP Home &…
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Boing Boing: Rebit offers effortless full backup for Windows machines My father is working with a company in Colorado that makes a very nifty backup appliance for Windows machines, called Rebit, which provides continuous backup without any learning curve or effort. It’s a pocket-sized USB hard drive that draws power from the USB connection (so there’s no need for an adapter). There are no buttons or switches or setup programs to install or configure. As soon as you plug it in, a dialog box pops up asking you for permission to let Rebit go to work. You click OK, and…
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First of all, I had no idea that there was any such thing as the "Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church", but I'm delighted to find that it exists, and seems to be going strong. Not only that, but several of the mainline churches that are all part of it have permanent committees that study the impact of science on religion: the Presbyterian Association for Science Technology and the Church, the ELCA Alliance for Faith, Science and Technology, and our own Episcopal Committee on Science, Technology and Faith. The Methodists and the United Church of Christ also reported on holding…