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Your standard autodidactic philosopher programmer massage-therapist sysadmin shaman hacker juggler neophile poet weirdo gamer healer dreamer husband / father / fellow.

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VirtualBox 3.2.8 post-upgrade issue [resolved] Upon upgrading to 3.2.8 and re-starting a client you might get an error message such as: "differencing image not associated with parent" "differencing but not associated with any parent in media registry" "Parent medium with UUID x not found in media registry" For some reason, inaccurate info ended up in your vdi file. VB...
Gives new meaning to “Electric Toothbrush” The Soladey-J3X [toothbrush] has a solar panel at its base that transmits electrons to the top of the toothbrush through a lead wire. The electrons react with acid in the mouth, creating a chemical reaction that breaks down plaque and kills bacteria. The toothbrush requires no toothpaste, and can operate...
StarCraft II downloader: changing d/l location in XP I tried downloading StarCraft II via the provided Blizzard downloader app, but pointed it to a partition that was formatted FAT32. Since the file is larger than FAT32 can hold (~4GB) the download failed. The downloader does not provide you with a way of switching the download location after you...
Bulldozers and Spatial Cognition Suppose you want to take a picture of yourself laying down in the mud in front of a bulldozer. What side should the bulldozer be on when you take the picture? Does the directionality of a person's primary writing system (left-to-right, top-to-bottom for English) affect the way in which they take...
string byte length in PHP PHP apparently lacks a function to return the byte length of a string, such as you might need for a Content-Length header. Assuming your PHP internal character encoding is a single byte charset (such as latin1 / "ISO-8859-1") then the answer is the same as your character count and you...