BBC's "The One Show" highlights Esperanto
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The blog of Matt Kaufman
About Matt Kaufman:
I am a philosopher, software engineer, computer geek, Buddhist, vegan and now, expert noun-lister.
My Email: nnvqbgmnathc at spammotel dot com
About Kompato: It means compassion in Esperanto.
My Code:
Teamspeak Monitor - A web application to monitor Teamspeak usage (PHP/MySQL)
tsmonwatcher - A client-side application that works with TeamSpeak Monitor to alert on TeamSpeak events (Python)
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Upstate NY Time Warner customers: reboot your cable modem
Time Warner has increased the upstream speed for standard Road Runner accounts from 384kbps to 1Mbps, but you may have to reboot your cable modem to notice the speed increase.
You can test your speed here.
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Tamiflu may be nearly useless
According to the LA Times, the British Medical Journal is questioning the efficacy of Tamiflu for treating any kind of flu (H1N1 included). The article closes with this conclusion:
"It probably doesn't hurt to treat patients with severe flu complications with Tamiflu, and it may help. But the drug should not be used in an effort to prevent infection among people who have been exposed to the virus or in those who have only very mild infections."
The Atlantic also ran a story on this topic and pointed out that there is some evidence that Roche, the manufacturer, may have misled governments and scientists about the drug. They also mention that there are potential fatal side effects to taking the medication, though these are likely rare.
Natural News has a similar story on Tamiflu, which references the British Medical Journal's findings and the article in The Atlantic, but is a bit more sensational.
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Clever and artistic Google Chrome video
(source: dvice.com)
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Google launches a new programming language
Mashable has the details on "Go" here, including an embedded Google Tech Talk video. Looks very interesting.
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Caffeine may reverse Alzheimer's
There has been news about caffeine possibly slowing the disease, but this is the first I've heard of a study claiming that caffeine can actually reverse Alzheimer's disease.
Note Dr. Weil's comment at the bottom of the article:
"This is all obviously intriguing news, but it is interesting to me that the in media coverage of this study, reporters have largely played up the coffee angle, when the mice were given caffeine, not coffee. The fact is that green and white teas also contain caffeine, along with other compounds that may be neuro- and cardioprotective - and, in my experience, tea is less likely to cause the insomnia, digestive upset, bladder irritation, and jitters that often come with coffee drinking."
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The best desktop wallpapers ever
If you aren't following every picture in the Stuck in Customs flickr stream, now's the time to do it. With beautiful shots like this, along with a story behind nearly every photo, it's truly breathtaking. Plus, the photos make for wonderful desktop wallpaper!
(Source: flickr)
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Securing local Evernote data on the Mac
I'm enjoying Evernote thus far, and have upgraded to a premium membership. The only thing bothering me was that my local data was left unencrypted -- unless I were to encrypt each and every note individually.
My workaround -- create an encrypted sparsebundle, copy everything in "~/Library/Application Support/Evernote" into it, and create a symbolic link from that location to the mount point ("/Volumes/Evernote"). So long as I remember to mount the encrypted volume before I launch Evernote, everything seems to work just fine so far, and all my data is encrypted. However, if you try this yourself beware that there may be problems that I have not yet encountered.
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Going paperless
I spent the evening scanning in family recipes and putting them into Evernote -- an idea I got from this Evernote blog post.
Next step will be to scan every single receipt and important document that I receive and then shred the paper version when possible.
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How differentials work
GM put together this video in the 1930s that gives an excellent, clear demonstration of how a differential works. Skip to 1:50 into the video for the good stuff. (source: http://jalopnik.com/5335841/how-does-the-differential-work)
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