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Popehat is some fine company as well.
Technorati Top 100 Blog?
This can't be right -- I don't trust the ranking -- but I can't help but be amused at being ranked ahead of CNN's Political Ticker (and just behind The Caucus at the NYT). According to the Technorati Top 100:
A good case can be made that everyone has some degree of wheat/grain intolerance. They (and grain like things like quinola) cause leaky gut, which has a strong association with a bunch of auto immune issues. We do not seem well adapted to neolithic foods (grains, legumes, seed oils, and to a lesser extent dairy and nightshades).
http://robbwolf.com/faq/ is a good place to start.
and now, a word from my mother about celiac disease
When we were kids, it seemed like my sister was always sick. By the time we were in high school, my brother and I were convinced that she was the best con artist of all time, regularly convincing our parents that she just couldn't go to school, and could she please have some pudding. Well, as it...
I second the Kinesis Advantage mentioned above, I have one now, had one years ago, and loved both.
A note on Dvorak, I put a key chart up on the wall, and taught my self to use Dvorak when I wasn't looking at the keyboard, and to use qwerty when looking at the keyboard, this kept me from being crippled on a computer that did not have a remapped keyboard. I don't think you are much faster on a Dvorak, but I think you get fewer errors, and it's easier on your hands. It needs to be updated though, it is for typing, not computers.
The Keyboard Cult
As a guy who spends most of his day typing words on a screen, it's hard for me to take touch computing seriously. I love my iPhone 4, and smartphones are the ultimate utility belt item, but attempting to compose any kind of text on the thing is absolutely crippling. It is a reasonable compromis...
I second the 4 Sevens lights, I just got a Quark MiNi123 in warm white (rather than the normal cool white, which is bluer, and doesn't show color as well) http://www.4sevens.com/product_info.php?cPath=297_310&products_id=2292 , which about the same size as yours, but brighter on high, dimmer on low (you can use it in a room with night adapted eyes and not blind your self), a longer run time, with a tritium dongle on it (find it if I drop it when off in the dark, only $10) from http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6830 .
I also have a SOG Powerlock multi tool (you can switch out blades, and the compound leverage pliers are great), a collection of flash drivers, the best of which is a OCZ Throttle 8GB (they are out of the market now though), fastest I've used by a fair bit, and some misc USB cables.
Frankly, everything but my keys, money, bank card, and phone are in my bag most of the time.
What's On Your Utility Belt?
Like any self-respecting geek, I'm mostly an indoor enthusiast. But on those unfortunate occasions when I am compelled -- for reasons entirely beyond my control -- to leave the house, I do so fully armed with my crucial utility belt items. Yes, you heard me, I transform from the geeky Bruce Wa...
At least the first Bryers shrink happened years ago, before the bubble burst, I remember it.
We are at the zero bound, expect monantary supply related things to be very weird.
Are We Suffering from Concealed Inflation?
Steven Horwitz Those of us who find the more-than-doubling of the Fed's monetary base to be highly troubling have used all kinds of metaphors to explain why it's a problem even though we haven't seen any measurable price inflation yet. (My favorite is "ticking time bomb" which also allows me to ...
Here is what I do with my 3 1600x1200 displays. I'm a Unix sysadmin for a company that manages thousands of systems for a few dozen customers. I have my web browser (documentation) on one, monitoring program, ticket managment program, and as many as 12 terminals (and when I RDP to a windows box, I usually put it here) on the second, and chat, email, and notepad++ for notes and such on the third display. I really could use a 4th display so that I could leave the monitoring app visible all the time.
So yes, 6MP, and I know how I could use 8.
Three Monitors For Every User
As far as I'm concerned, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen space. By "screen", I mean not just large monitors, but multiple large monitors. I've been evangelizing multiple monitors since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition: Multiple Monitors and Productivity...
According to anandtech.com, ati has a 6x card that will be out soon. And that will be the defaulyt on a chipset level (their customers want it for notebooks).
I have 3 1600x1200 displays, and I could put a 4th to good use. I have a monitoring app that is normally hiden, but that really should be where I can see it.
Three Monitors For Every User
As far as I'm concerned, you can never be too rich, too thin, or have too much screen space. By "screen", I mean not just large monitors, but multiple large monitors. I've been evangelizing multiple monitors since the dark days of Windows Millennium Edition: Multiple Monitors and Productivity...
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