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Can’t Wait to use Pivot to Explore My Data

Thought about this a lot before but never saw any dataviz program like this before. Hans Rosling’s program was very informative, but based on really simple data where the problem was dirty data from decades ago.
I’m hoping that Pivot will let me view information the way I want to view it – start off [...]

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Mmmm… high-res crowdsourced food photos

I found a website full of mouth-watering high-resolution pictures of local food, if you are at work and need some motivation to go out of the office for lunch, then click this link: http://www.pictorymag.com/showcases/local-flavor/
I really like how the layout seems to be unafraid of using a lot of bandwidth to display big, high quality images, it’s [...]

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February Power Readings

Just checked my power meter again, the new readings are as follows:
Total Usage: 241 kWh
Uptime: 1583 h
Current Load: 275 W
Averages out to 110 kWh/month, about $30.

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Good luck to subiime at LA Poker Classic

My friend subiime is playing at LA Poker Classic right now, and I hear that he is deep in a Heads-up tournament.  He didn’t want me to post his picture in case people were trying find out what he looks like.  He’s been killing online poker for the past 3 years and is starting to [...]

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Server Issues

Sorry for not posting much lately, I ran into a hosting problem this month where some of the permissions on my server were set incorrectly during an account transfer. (the migration script’s fault, not mine)

I don’t have root access on my server, so I wasn’t able to log in or make posts until I found [...]

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