Many people got attracted to bitcoin the last couple of months. This explosion of interest probably caused the monetary value of bitcoins to show the same shape as the google trend-line chart pictured below. In this article I will ignore the exponential increase in monetary value since its inception and focus on some …

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Before I used an Apple machine with OSX, XEmacs was my editor of choice. Recently I saw Emacs 23 being released with native OSX support in the main repository (well, NextStep support formally, but with Cocoa bindings, which makes it OSX native I guess). That alone was enough to revisit the old friend. With caution, …

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Last Monday was my 40th birthday. I'm kind of used to having a quiet birthday; most of the people are always on holidays during this time of year. My girlfriend had organised a two day trip, she usually does something like that for my birthday, to an unknown destination to do something unknown. We were leaving on …

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After quite a long period of using ecto, I have switched to using Marsedit. Ecto got sold beginning last year by Adriaan to Illuminix. There has been no update of ecto since and I'm seeing no signs of improvement either. Does this mean ecto as a product is bad? No. I still love the idea and implementation of it. It is …

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While looking for a solution to a LaTeX path search problem i ran into this: <div class="attribution"> <blockquote cite="http://hans.fugal.net/blog/2009/03/12/microwave-duty-cycle#comments"> <p>As you may know, when you change the power setting on most microwaves, it doesn’t change the power output of the magnetron. …

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