Steve Pavlina Hurts My Brain

February 5th, 2009

If you don’t care about amatteur philosophy/self-development/logic, I recommend you ignore this post. This is a pure rant, so I’ll try to keep it short. There’s this unbelievably popular self-development blogger Steve Pavlina. Some of his posts are quite insightful and have practical uses. Some make we want to embed my head in a concrete […]

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Convert RAR, CAB, ISO, etc To ZIP

January 29th, 2009

Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to convert some relatively obscure archive files (e.g. RAR) to the ZIP format. That’s easy enough if you only need to deal with a single file – just extract it using your favorite archiver and re-compress the extracted files as .zip. However, manually converting dozens of […]

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Tree Link Update – TFTF Certificate

January 17th, 2009

I promised (in the Tree Link project) to post the “Trees For The Future” certificate when it arrives, so here it is 🙂 On an unrelated note, I’m having trouble with my wisdom tooth. Posting frequency will be diminished for a while.

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Amusing Google Image Search Fail (Mildly NSFW)

January 3rd, 2009

As I discovered just a few minutes ago, Google Image Search has a feature that lets you restrict your search only to images that contain faces. However, it looks like the algorithm still has a few kinks to be worked out… Take a look at the first result of this image search query : I […]

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Tree Link Update

January 2nd, 2009

December has just passed, so here’s and update on my experimental charity project. According to my stats, the Tree Link received nine links, which means I have to sponsor nine new trees. That’s not a lot, but it’s a start. And, since it’s New Year (more or less), I’ll throw in some additional $ and […]

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