I did some research and found out that the building which forms much of the scenery for this drama series in an upscale area of Tokyo across the street from a non-religious building which is a copy of a Gothic cathedral that can be rented for weddings, parties, or other events. Such a beautiful setting…

apt-get install davical do all the things needed to get Apache SSL working, including: zless /usr/share/doc/apache2.2-common/README.Debian.gz start here by reading this, “SSL” section. make-ssl-cert /usr/share/ssl-cert/ssleay.cnf /etc/ssl/private/jyoti.alaya.net.crt vim /etc/apache2/sites-available/default-ssl SSLCertificateFile /etc/ssl/private/jyoti.alaya.net.crt #SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/ssl/private/ssl-cert-snakeoil.key a2ensite default-ssl a2enmod ssl test https://your.site.com see if it works see http://davical.org/installation.php Database Setup section. Setup db users and create PostgreSQL database following…

Watch out. Whenever politicians want to fuck people over they start talking about “the economy”. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/13/obama-immigration-reform-republicans-house-senate

I have an idea for a system to drastically limit the overuse of fossil fuels in an equitable manner by introducing a system in vehicles in which the tax of fuel at the pump is calculated based on a chip in the vehicle. If it is a newer or wasteful vehicle the cost of gas…

Some odd behavior in Firefox recently where the copy function (Ctrl-C or right-click copy) appears not actually copy into the buffer. Advice on one forum suggested: You can try to toggle the Boolean pref dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled to false on the about:config page. http://kb.mozillazine.org/about:config It also appears to be listed as a bug by Mozilla. According to…

A new study just released has confirmed results of an earlier one which showed that high blood levels of omega 3 fatty acids increases the risk of high-grade prostate cancer. …the latest findings indicate that high concentrations of EPA, DPA and DHA – the three anti-inflammatory and metabolically related fatty acids derived from fatty fish…

A couple years ago I got a queen-size futon. A considerable part of my decision to get it was because cotton is a natural and highly-recyclable material. But even though it is a highly-recyclable material because cotton contain high-grade cellolose fibers which make excellent paper products, I cannot find anywhere that actually does recycle it.…

[Above] The salon appears to be across the street from a cathedral. [Above and below] It is part of a complex of businesses and/or offices with a unified design. [Above] I just had to include another shot of the amazing interior. This one reveals more details of the columns from an angle looking down near…

People who might have been loathe to upgrade to Windows 8 because of much of the bad publicity it had received might now consider upgrading since Microsoft has released the 8.1 update. There are two main things that have been corrected by this update: 1.  Windows 8.1 will now boot directly to the desktop, similar…

UPDATE:  I did all this work.  But now I see an English version of the article at spiegel.de. =============================================================================== =============================================================================== I did not see any articles in English media like this. An article in Der Spiegel states: …für Piloten ist der Flughafen an der Westküste der USA schon länger ein Horror: Ein wichtiges Flugleitsystem ist…