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Missouri Republicans helped to decide that TORTURE should be legal in the United States. Crap.
All I can say is, it feels like a crazy situation where you hope you’ll wake up any minute now, since things couldn’t get worse. I understand that there are places in the world, where, undoubtably things ARE worse than they are here in the US. It is just sad, and outrageous, that we are,…
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I’m the #9 Gabriel out of 107,000,000 on Google!
I may qualify as the biggest dork ever. Inspired by the #1 Matt on Google, I set out on a single-handed campaign to break into the top 10 results for my name. As of today, out of 107,000,000 total results, I’m currently #9. Nerd points galore for me huh. w00t. Check for yourself: Google Search…
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SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR
SourceForge.net: Tesseract OCR A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005. Link to share this: https://gabrielserafini.com/blog/2006/09/21/sourceforgenet-tesseract-ocr/
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The graph that we hope to be on someday…
This is an Alexa traffic graph showing quantity of traffic, comparing a number of fitness related sites: Not surprisingly, Collabofit isn’t even on the chart yet. Well, with only 26 members and an invite-only system so far, we’re not too worried about it. I’ll check back in a couple of months and see how we’re…
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New features for Collabofit: RSS feeds for every activity + 3 new fitness activities
We just added some new features to Collabofit that are pretty exciting: RSS feeds for each activity 3 new activities (including my most recent favorite activity, Sledgehammer) Team manager badges and more… Check it out: RSS feeds for every activity are now live (+ 3 new fitness activities!) P.S. If you would like to start…
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Upgraded the firmware on my Linksys WRT54G to Thibor’s HyperWRT firmware
I’d been wanting to do this for a while. The biggest feature for me was the “static” DHCP setup, where you can keep DHCP for most machines on your network but assign a couple of machines to static IPs that never change. This comes in handy when you’re running servers that need to always have…
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SketchUp Home – Google releases free 3d software for Mac and PC
I thought this might be useful for our contractor Eric since he was talking about getting a 3d drafting package of some sort. Hard to beat free to start… 🙂 3D for EveryoneDeveloped for the conceptual stages of design, SketchUp is powerful yet easy-to-learn 3D software. We think of it as the pencil of digital…
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Fitness update
I enjoyed going to the Clayton Art Fair today after lunch. We walked around for about an hour and a half. Tonight I walked Kuma in the park and did the normal route twice, for a total of an hour of brisk walking (~4.25 miles). All in all, a good day of locomotion. During my…
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digg – Weird Al – Ridin’ Dirty (White & Nerdy) (+lyrics)
Superfine new mp3 out by Weird Al that shows his nerdcore skills go deep. And it is hilarious. And a great listen. 5 stars. Listen: White & Nerdy (mp3 file) White & Nerdy ———— Parody of “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire New lyrics by Al Yankovic They see me mowin’ My front lawn I know they’re all…
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Prototype Carousel – Javascript scrolling window
This class is a Prototype/script.aculo.us version of the excellent Bill Scott’s Carousel component. I needed it to be able to use it in Ruby On Rails application without using the 200KB of YUI JS classes. This library is licensed under a MIT-style license, so you can use it for anything you like, as long as…