A History Fan’s Visit to Toledo
A Hill and a River The Tajo is a thousand-kilometer river that flows through Spain and Portugal. Near the center of Spain, it makes a horse shoe shaped detour around… Continue reading "A History Fan’s Visit to Toledo"
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Horace Smith’s “Ozymandias”
In Egypt’s sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desert knows:— “I am great OZYMANDIAS,” saith the stone, “The King… Continue reading "Horace Smith’s “Ozymandias”"
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My Inner Chihuahua
There is the feeling of being “Zen” — objective, collected, and calm. Then there is the opposite feeling. That opposite feeling is your inner chihuahua. Staying emotionally keyed up over something… Continue reading "My Inner Chihuahua"
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Unserialize Performance in PHP
Today I’m writing some PHP code that will frequently need to unserialize a short array of strings. I did some informal benchmarking to find out what serialization technique could be… Continue reading "Unserialize Performance in PHP"
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Incredible Shrinking Computer Shelf
Patterns in Tech Change Personal tech evolves fast. Today’s newest gadget will be second best in six months, and in a few years it won’t be able to keep up. At least,… Continue reading "Incredible Shrinking Computer Shelf"
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Zip Disk Data Recovery: How To Do It
I had a collection of zip disks that contained data from the 1990’s. Now it’s 2016, and after some trial and error, most of the data has been recovered. The background… Continue reading "Zip Disk Data Recovery: How To Do It"
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Zip Disk Data Recovery: How Not To Do It
Zip disks seemed pretty awesome in the 90’s. They could hold 100 megabytes, which was excellent compared to the 1 megabyte or so a 3.5″ floppy could hold. It was especially… Continue reading "Zip Disk Data Recovery: How Not To Do It"
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AppScale: What It Does
A friend recommended AppScale as a platform for a software project. It took me some time to wrap my head around what AppScale was. Here’s my attempt to package that… Continue reading "AppScale: What It Does"