Three Most Important Things

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One of the other ways to look at measuring a neighborhood’s “age-friendliness”, is to determine how safe and friendly it is for those under eight and over eighty. In the article linked below, Nancy Hill, a writer and photographer, turned to a similar grouping—children under seven and adults over 70—to explore the question: What is important?   She expected to find patterns in the answers she received and did. However, she reported in that what people left off their lists was … Continue reading →

HTTrack

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HTTrack is a free (GPL) and easy-to-use offline browser utility. Basically, it allows you to download the contents of a internet site to a local directory. It builds a complete set of recursively directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server and stashing them on your computer.  These are static, HTML images of the original site, even if it was built using some database centered, dynamic page tool. I find it great for archiving copies of my sites … Continue reading →

Republican Politics

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I wrote the following post in 2009. I received a call from a close friend the other day. After “catching up”, he shifted to the reason behind his call. He and his wife were bothered by the debate on health care. Knowing that I was involved with the Republican Party, he called to express his concerns. His concerns were simple. In all of the reports on the Health Care debate, he did not see a true debate. He heard over … Continue reading →

Apple vs Lazy Big Brother

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OK — Color me clueless, but I simply do not understand the government’s position.  They simply do not appear to know what it takes to decrypt an iPhone, so they are taking the easy way out.  Make someone else do it. 1. If you have too many failed attempts, using the iPhone to access the data, the phone will erase the disk. So, trying different passwords is not an option. 2. The first thing you do in a case like … Continue reading →

Everquest 2: An Alternate Mercenary

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I first started playing the original version of EverQuest back in October of 1999. I moved to EverQuest II with it’s release in 2004. Over the past eleven years, the EverQuest II design team has added many revolutionary MMORPG features, which were inconceivable back in the EQ1 days.  Some features that are relevant to my proposal are: Instanced Housing, so everyone can have their own home to decorate without impacting other players Mounts that you can ride or place in … Continue reading →