A commitment to innovation and sustainability

I was reflecting recently and thought about 9/11 and how much America has fallen since then. The damage to America since that time, caused by a sick oligarchy and government run by bribery is incalculable. And somehow America never healed from that time. We had a lying President who was a madman who led the…

I have written in the past about the PIL schema – Personal Information Logos scheme for categorizing one’s information.  The three main areas that the schema is used are: 1) bookmarks, 2) file system hierarchy, and 3) physical file folders.  Some categories are not applicable in one or more of these three areas. Today when…

Article at bbc.com yesterday about name bias of employers and educational institutions. I actually completely forgot about the time many years ago when I changed my name and gender legally and suddenly my job searching was no longer as easy as a knife cutting through butter. As someone who had been very accustomed to job…

I just found this really useful little keyboard shortcut which unhighlights highlighted search strings in VIM: stackoverflow.com How do you make vim unhighlight what you searched for? To cut through the suspense of reading the link above here is the code to put into your vimrc: ” redraws the screen and removes any search highlighting.…

Source: purdue.edu Researchers find future temperatures could exceed livable limits Checking out this map. Huge swathes of South America: Fried. Huge chunk of USA east of Mississippi from Great Lakes down to Gulf: Fried. Huge portions of west central and northern Africa: Fried. Most of India: Fried. Most of Australia: Fried. Western China including heavily…

Recently I’ve been receiving e-mails containing .zip file attachments which contain malware. Just as a test, today I decided to save all the zip files to a folder and manually scan them. I first extracted one of the files which revealed an .exe file with a filename consisting of a long string of numbers, then…

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click this link to view live satellite imagery of Hurricane Patricia

There may be times when you want to hide the navigation pane in Windows Explorer. For example sometimes if I’m working with a directory of images I want to hide the navigation pane so that the entire Explorer window is filled with thumbnails of the images in the folder. Unfortunately Windows Explorer doesn’t provide a…

Through micro-worlds.