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Owncloud has been updated to version 7.0.4 today. Time to aptitude update && dselect install if you’re running a Debian Owncloud server. Or if you have installed cron-apt and configured it to notify you by mail, then you will already know this!

AdNauseam – Clicking Ads So You Don’t Have To from mushon on Vimeo. What advertisers and other entities on the Internet who track users do is sickening. Even though there have attempts to have an above-the-board method by which people can legitimately opt-out of being tracked, those efforts have failed massively as greed and grubbiness…

Rank Country Score Ten-year change 1 Switzerland 87.67 0.80% 2 Luxembourg 83.29 3.02% 3 Australia 82.40 2.32% 4 Singapore 81.78 0.94%   Full list at epi.yale.edu “Home / 2014 EPI / Country Rankings” I lived in country #6 for a year and I have to say what a difference from country #33.

The U.S. economy has long been powered in part by the nation’s ability to attract the world’s most educated and skilled people to its shores. But a new study of the worldwide migration of professionals to the U.S. shows a sharp drop-off in its proportional share of those workers – raising the question of whether…

The global average temperature over land and ocean surfaces for January to October 2014 was the highest on record, according to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It said October was the hottest since records began in 1880. source: wmo.int; “News, 21 November 2014, January-October temperatures break records“

This light only costs $30. I had the previous model to this light, the HL-EL220 which duly got ripped-off my bicycle a couple days ago. It was an excellent light with extremely long battery life and was very bright. This one is almost identical – the shape is slightly different but it still has the…

Every day there is a drumbeat of articles in the “news” about Iran and the “negotiations”. It is all bullshit. It is an orchestrated farce by governments and the media they have control over to force Iran. I’m guessing that Obama and Xi have already made their backroom deal on Iran. They’ve decided what actions…

Its unfortunate. It looked like at least two auto parts stores were burning. If people are going to burn something down, burning an auto parts store is a really, really bad idea. There are so many toxic things in an auto parts store. There are a lot of chemicals and materials which when burned are…

Please do not go shopping on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, nor on Friday, Black Friday. That is the most powerful message that one can send to retailers that enough is enough. A holiday is a holiday. People who work retail are not machines. They deserve a holiday. If you really want to be thankful, be thankful…