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Archive for November, 2008

Amazing photos from Mumbai (neé Bombay)

by Kreme on Nov.28, 2008, under Computer

The Boston Globe has an astonishing series of photos from the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai

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Finding Duplicate Files

by Kreme on Nov.28, 2008, under Computer

So, the question came up on how to search a lot of files for duplicates, and I dashed off a quick, albeit correct, answer.  But then, as these things often do, it niggled and wormed around and I decided on a better method.  It all starts with a short little find command:

find . -type f -exec md5 {} >>mymd5s.txt \;

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Gay Marriage

by Kreme on Nov.14, 2008, under Computer

My stance on gay rights is pretty simple, and I think the issue was covered and dealt with rather effectively 150 years ago or so: (continue reading…)

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Worst lyrics ever?

by Kreme on Nov.12, 2008, under Computer

Beyond the rim of the starlight,
my love is wandering in star flight.
I know he’ll find
In star clustered reaches
Love, strange love
A starwoman teaches.

I know his journey ends never
His Star Trek will go on forever
But tell him while
He wanders his starry sea,
Remember,
Remember me.

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Faster Horses

by Kreme on Nov.11, 2008, under Computer

In his article Faster Horses in the Age of Co-creation, JP Rangaswami writes, “We need to focus on making things that the customer wants to buy, rather than trying to get customers to pay for things they neither want nor need.”  He writes this in rebuttal to the famous, perhaps apocryphal, quote of Henry Ford:

If I’d asked people what they wanted, they’d have said ‘faster horses’.

Mr Rangaswami even goes on to say that if the customer wants ‘faster horses’ you give them faster horses in a variety of types. (continue reading…)

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