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More global warming bits

After watching a wonderful documentary on Antarctica on MOJO TV, I decided to do some more up-to-date research on what the scientific community has to say about global warming.  In my opinion, the only real source we can/should reference is the National Environment Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) and the National Climatic Data Center [...]

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As a part of my work with the MSR206 I needed to write some small scripts and command lines to help deal with binary data.  Using vi(1) or emacs(1) just seemed too cumbersome for the lightweight data which I was analyzing, so I wrote some simple command lines to assist.
hexlate
The first one I call “hexlate”.  [...]

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More magstripe work, primitive tools.

I finally made time to work a bit more on the magstripe project with my MSR206.  Instead of going hog-wild and finishing/polishing dmsr206.pl reference tool like in a previous post, I decided to just make a few scripts with rudimentary functionality.  With this dmsr-2.1.tar.bz2 you can erase, read, and write ISO standard data, which is [...]

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Brief Background on R(B)DS

Traffic Message Channel, or TMC, is a method, or technology by which traffic data is delivered to receivers which then convert this data to pertinent, geographic-based traffic-information.  While there are a handful transmission methods on which TMC is delivered such as XM and MSN Direct, the only one I will cover today [...]

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Human ‘Treeman’

Independent Television News (ITN) of the United Kingdom recently aired a news blip regarding a man who has a bizarre condition where warts have aggressively grown all over his hands and feet. The warts have overcome his appendages to the point of appearing like tree-bark.
After testing samples of the lesions and Dede’s blood, Dr [...]

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