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This is totally different from all of my blog post these days. I generally post about computer stuff but I took a kayaking class and I wanted to document it in some way. I took a Surf Zone class for sea kayaking. It is a class to learn…

I only managed to get out kayaking once but it was worth it bring the kayaks to Long Beach. I wanted to get out more but it just didn’t work out. The latest trip was added to the kayaking map.

I’m in Long Beach California at the annual ISMB conference. Most of the conference is about biology and/or bioinformatics. Although I write computer programs for a living, my day job is for a company that makes tools for the biotech industry. I’m sitting in a special interest group…

The only hint I can give for this puzzle is to say that it is a puzzle. There is something encoded in the arrows. I will send $50.00 via paypal to the first person to solve it (although no one reads my blog so I’m off the hook!)….

I had to write something just because my blog is getting stale. Maybe stagnant is a better word for it. I am still working on the Windows Phone project but I’m working on it professionally and I don’t know if I can talk about the project at all….

I configured the iBook to share its wired network connection through its Airport connection and gave the connection a name and password. Nothing worked. The iBook didn’t show up on the list of iPad WiFi connections. I tried to disable the built-in firewall on the iBook and got…

I don’t normally blog about computer games other than those that I am designing to want to design. This is an exception because I have some comments about Battlefield 3 and I think it is worth making a note about them. Battlefield 3 is a first person shooter…

Although I did no real work of any sort and have no new information to share, I do think a post is in order: I’m back from two weeks of vacation. It seemed like more than that for some reason. I plan on working only a little more…

First; is “Folder” really the new “Directory”? I never know which to write these days. Second; don’t set up an FTP server and and then use the file system to change the name of a users home directory. The FTP server won’t know about the name change. Maybe…

I discovered an odd feature of the mobile Safari browser on IOS 5 on my iPad. I suspect that this is the same for the iPhone and iPod as well. If a page is set up so that it takes 100% of the screen and then the page…