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I was working on my PE disk tonight and I came across these tools that I totally forgot about. UnixTools is a collection of command-line tools that are ports of the most common and useful “Unix Tools” a typical Unix / Linux admin would run across.
So now you can use “grep” in Windows, [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Ruby on Rails and I love it. I love it so much that I hate ASP and PHP more than anything. Rails takes all of the crap about programming that I hate and gets rid of all of it. It lets me avoid doing all of [...]

Mom says:

I’m going for the bone marrow transplant after all. I keep hearing all these success stories and I figure I’m too young to give up. I just have to recover my normal blood counts and that won’t happen ’til at least August. In the meanwhile, I get platelet transfusions and shots [...]

Much of the “canned laughter” used on the soundtracks of sitcoms is
said to have come from tapes that were originally recorded during
broadcasts of “The Red Skelton Show” in the late 1950s and early ’60s.
It is eerie to realize that when we encounter a laugh track (or
“sweetening”) in a recent show, some of the people we [...]

This awesome flash animation is a fun and very well done way to learn about some physics concepts like frequencies and amplitudes. Check out the movie here.