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A History Fan’s Visit To Merida
Roman, Visigoth, and Umayyads ruins. Also, really patient drivers.
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A History Fan’s Visit to Toledo
Toledo is an ancient fortress city.
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Horace Smith’s “Ozymandias”
There are a couple Ozymandias poems out there. They are both striking to me.
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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.
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Unserialize Performance in PHP
Some benchmarks on unserialization techniques.
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Incredible Shrinking Computer Shelf
Thoughts on hacking, old tech, and the culture around it.
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Zip Disk Data Recovery: How To Do It
Here’s a way to read the data from your old zip disks.
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Zip Disk Data Recovery: How Not To Do It
Here are some ways I tried to get data off old zip disks, and the challenges I ran into.
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AppScale: What It Does
AppScale lets you run servers without worrying about all the technical details. Here’s how that works.