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FreeNAS: Reverse Proxy, NextCloud, and Joplin
This is a mega-project that has existed as various schemes scrawled in my notebook for quite some time, likely approaching the order of years. I have long wanted to put my storage to use replacing Dropbox as my source of between-device file syncing, and I’ve been cautious of note-taking apps ever since being forsaken first…
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Fitocracy Needs Improvement
After seeing the xkcd comic about Fitocracy, I scoured the internet for invitations and was thrilled when I finally found one. Now that I’ve been using the site for a month or two, some of my enthusiasm has waned. The concept is excellent: Turning fitness into an RPG-style game is a brilliant idea, tapping into…
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Graduate Productivity
For me, digital task management began with Microsoft Outlook somewhere in my “tween” years. By the time middle school came around, I was syncing it with a Windows Mobile PDA, awkwardly carrying it around wherever I could. Today, I find myself using Producteev to try and wrangle the myriad of to-do items that come with being a married…
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Quitting: Ensuring Everybody That Matters Loses
Game modding communities thrive on the free exchange of knowledge that ranges from the developers adopting a mod-friendly attitude to the hobbyists who share their work and knowledge with comrades. The community thrives on clever innovation, on people picking up a project where others have left off, and on learning by imitation. Yet interestingly, the…
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bookTuner: A WordPress Plugin for Goodreads.com
This plugin is no longer maintained and is unlikely to work with current versions of WordPress; however, there are other Goodreads plugins available. bookTuner is a WordPress plugin for displaying books from a Goodreads.com shelf. After configuring, you can use tags to build a customized display of the book’s title, author, and jacket artwork, as…
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Using Google Wave for Academic Collaboration
I have been wanting to get out a paper on some of my undergraduate research and with my impending cross-country move, it’s moved back up the priority queue. In preparing this paper I will be collaborating with my PI as well as the then-senior grad student, now-postdoc who helped me at the time. This seemed…
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Reformatting—Again
Tess (my desktop PC) has been having assorted problems over the past few months, so I took the plunge and went for it. A few hours later I’ve managed to get everything up and running and have almost finished wresting Windows XP to my powerful will. This time, once everything appears to be running smoothly,…
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UMBC Scheduler
Check out the Spring 2007 version of the UMBC Scheduler. It’s got a lot of great features, like the ability to choose between classes you know you have to take and “extra” classes. That way you can see which optional classes work best with the main ones. Also you can search through classes by teacher,…
Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.