Category: General

Even with SafeSearch turned on, I get some very explicit ads when I do this very innocuous search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=live&btnG=Google+Search Yahoo! Search does much better:...

I added Y!Q searches to my individual post pages. It took all of 5 minutes, using info I got from: Y!Q on my blog... (by Jeremy Zawodny)...

For months now, Nicole and I have been annoyed by the fact that we could only fit one plate in our microwave at a time so we are forced to serialize our food heating activities. Our microwave is plenty big enough to fit two...

This is one of my favorite Bourne shell functions. It lets you repeat any command at a regular interval. rept () { delay=$1; shift; while true; do eval "$@"; sleep $delay; done } For example, if you want to monitor the size of a...

My friends Brian and Sonja are getting married on June 25, 2005. Brian and Sonja's Wedding Interestingly, I am partly responsible for them meeting, although in somewhat of a roundabout way. They actually tell the story on the...

This is a nifty WordPress plugin for finding content from Amazon.com and inserting it in your blog posts, optionally with an associates id, so that you get credit for the referral. manalang.com � WordPress Plugin: WP-Amazon...

tzls and tzx - Quick extraction and content-listing for archives such as tar.gz files fff and ffl - Quick, case-insensitive file-find with unquoted wildcards bd - Backup with Date appended. Copy the specified file(s) to the same...