John Duprey is a husband, father, and geek. He makes his living from the latter as a software architect for Thomson Reuters Research and Development. However, he lives for the former two - his wife Abby and their daughter Emma. -- Public Profile
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First Lego Man in Space ever. Watch this. Its cool! #legoman #space
"Canadians have sent a man into space, or at least two teenagers from Toronto have sent a Legoman into the earth’s upper atmosphere. Canadians Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad undertook the project after seeing videos of similar initiatives online, and have been earning plaudits around the web. The feat involved the use of a weather balloon to carry a camera several miles above the earth, along with a Legoman carrying a Canadian flag to mark the occasion. Check out the video above for some amazing sky-high views."
Neat! Go Canada!
"Wikipedia is protesting against SOPA and PIPA by blacking out the English Wikipedia for 24 hours, beginning at midnight January 18, Eastern Time. Readers who come to English Wikipedia during the blackout will not be able to read the encyclopedia. Instead, you will see messages intended to raise awareness about SOPA and PIPA, encouraging you to share your views with your representatives, and with each other on social media."
Outlook to Omnifocus, take 7
This is the 7th installment of my little OmniFocus script which will turn Emails into tasks.
Changes:
- added support for Growl 1.3 (thanks to John Duprey), if you are using Growl 1.3 please uncomment the following line (by removing the starting “–”)
-- tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"(if you cannot find it, search for EDITME GROWL in the source code)
- added support to move the processed mail to a folder
Embed This Infographic:
For More Details:
1. Alcohol does not cook out of food.
2. De-oxygenated blood turns dark red, not blue.
3. Humans don’t just have 5 senses.
4. Fortune Cookies were not invented in either China or America.
5. Diamonds are not formed from coal.
6. A strawberry is not a berry.
7. A dog’s mouth is not cleaner than a human’s mouth.
8. Being close to the t.v. doesn’t hurt your eyes.
9. “Third World Country” Doesn’t Refer to the Relative Wealth or Technological Level of a Country
10. Camel humps aren’t full of water.
Thanks to Brion on G+ for this link..
All I can say is "About Time"! In my minimal testing, it seems to work. I tested on OS X (10.6.8). I found that with Maven 3.02 setting JAVA_HOME was not enough. I think there may be a bug in the mvn script with paths that have spaces in them? After looking at the script, I found that setting JAVACMD="$JAVA_HOME"/bin/java that maven then worked as expected.
Why you should use 2-step verification
"2-step verification adds an extra layer of security to your Google Account by requiring you to have access to your phone – as well as your username and password – when you sign in. In addition to your username and password, you'll enter a code that Google will send you via text or voice message upon signing in.
2-step verification drastically reduces the chances of having the personal information in your Google account stolen by someone else. Why? Because hackers would have to not only get your password and your username, they'd have to get a hold of your phone."
I recently switched to using 2-step verification and it is only a little more work and a lot more secure. There are a couple of apps that don't work with it - like the Picasa Logitech Revue App, but most will work using an "application specific password". This video talks about those as well. I was recently prompted by a friend to do this after E-mails in my name that *appeared* to come from my gmail account. In the end it was a spoof and my account was fine. Still it scared me enough to change my password and switch to 2-step verification.
