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Angels and Biochemistry and Beauty - Apr 22, 09
A sudden change in biochemistry that results in the recognition of the perfect moment is magical.
The farce of the last two weeks in politics and the media - Oct 3, 08
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I desperately wanted to blog tonight about my frustration with the farce that is the media and politics in America today... but PBS saved me the trouble.
iPhone: Love it? but? - Jul 21, 08
I love my new iPhone... I really do... but... I do have a couple complaints more...
A couple words on God? if there is a God? - Jul 14, 08

Would God care about some of the things we are often told He/She cares about? more...


Ledona Tech - click for my blog
Converting a cygwin/bash path to a windows dos path - Nov 6, 09
I have a bash script that calls a java application. Originally this script and java app were only run on a linux machine. Then for a couple good reasons I needed to run it in windows under cygwin. I already had java installed under windows, so I needed to get the bash [...]
Quick & Dirty CSV CLI Text Viewer - Oct 21, 09
A project I’m currently working on has me repeatedly looking at csv text files.  When the columns line up well I can simply cat or less the data on a linux command line.  But when the data does not line up I have to eyeball it and try and figure out what value goes to [...]
Digital Music Metadata - GimmeSomeTune - Mar 30, 09
My new music collection maintenance recommendation is GimmeSomeTune .  For what it does it works very well.  GimmeSomeTune runs in the background and monitors the music currently playing in iTunes.  When a new track is played it can check to if the track has lyrics and/or artwork associated to it in iTunes.  If it does [...]
Bash for loop example - Feb 3, 09
Here’s a simple example that uses the for command in bash to echo a list of strings for a in 1 2 3; do echo $a;  done ; Note that the semicolons can be carriage returns instead.  In fact it seems that everything prior to the first semi-colon can appear on the same line, and do can [...]
  "When someone points at the moon, the intention
   is for people to see the moon, not look at
   the pointing finger. The pointing finger is not the
   moon, the signpost is not the destination."
   - Zen Proverb
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Recent Links - click for my
MoodJam | Latest moods
Personal Informatics
Slife Labs | Time Management Software
Personal informatics
CCG: Projects
Numerous machine learning and NLP tools
REMBRANDT - Named Entity Recognition Web Service
GATE.ac.uk - index.html
Open source text mining toolkit for research
yEd - Graph Editor
A nice looking cross-platform graph editor for visualization, mind mapping, etc...
JollysFastVNC
Supposedly a very very nice vnc client for the mac
Download MacFUSE for Mac - FUSE-compliant file system implementation mechanism. MacUpdate Mac System Software Downloads
native ntfs support for mac osx
Little Snitch
TrueCrypt - Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Disk Encryption Software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X and Linux
On the fly virtual disk encryption... One can never have too much security.


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