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33 is the Magic Number…

On the No Agenda Show, there is the theory that the number ’33’ is inserted into news stories as code.  No one is sure what the code means, though.  In some contexts, it seems to mean that the rest of the news story is bogative, or maybe it means ‘mission accomplished’, or it is just a flag to alert […]
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Building Inline Comments for Pull Requests and Commits

(or, what I did over summer vacation) For the last few months, I have been working with the Bitbucket team at Atlassian.  I switched over to this team at the beginning of the summer to help build a new inline commenting feature on pull requests and commit pages, to help make the tool more useful […]
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Proof that Netflix is the only thing holding the USPS afloat

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LivingSocial/Fiesta Americana Resort Bait & Switch Scam

UPDATE: I contacted LivingSocial about this issue, and they responded in a timely manner, and offered a partial refund, which I feels remedies the situation.  I am leaving this post up to tell the story, and to alert people that they should always be on guard for issues like this, but at least LivingSocial has made a […]
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US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant– Coverup or Hoax?

In the Morning, I came across an article from the Pakistani news source, The Nation, titled US orders news blackout over crippled Nebraska Nuclear Plant.  If this is true, it is terribly troubling–both because of the implications of a nuclear meltdown in the midwestern United States, as well as the idea of a government coverup […]
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Experimenting with Panoramic Photography

On a recent backpacking trip to Yosemite National Park, I decided to experiment panoramic photos. There are so many astounding views from the heights above Pate Valley and the Grand Canyon of the Toulomne, I was hoping to capture at least a fraction of that beauty with my camera. Now, I don’t have a fancy […]
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Speed Improvements for Mapping Site

Here is just a quick update on my site that allows you to map multiple locations on Google Maps. If you use the site regularly, you may have noticed that it has been slow, and sometimes unresponsive, lately. (Also, you may have noticed some very wonky behavior today, but that was because I was tweaking […]
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