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The WebCard project is moving forward again. My latest work involved card initialization and URL visiting. When a new Web card is created, the associated URL is now inserted as text in the content area of the card. This is useful documentation and prevents the potential confusion of a blank card. Speaking of card initialization, the WCD.AskURL function that prompts for a URL initially prefilled the input buffer with https:// …

MATTHEW FLORIANZ - ONBEGONNEN Dutch sound designer Matthew Florianz (currently working in the UK) presents what could be called an 'evolving album'. Onbegonnen (or: not started) is a collection of 'archived music, experiments, stepping stones, live recordings, hard to find and unfinished work' (ironically, none of these are literally 'onbegonnen'). The album collects four tracks (32 minutes) coming from different periods, three of them previously unreleased. Onbegonnen can be downloaded …

Maintaining secure integrations between Active Directory (AD) and identity management platforms like Keycloak is a crucial task in any modern IT environment. Password management for service accounts, especially those used in sensitive environments such as LDAP integrations, can become tedious when performed manually. However, automating the process reduces errors, enhances security, and saves time. In… The post Automated Rotation of Keycloak LDAP Federation Password for Zerto appeared first on Justin's …

Succumbing to my Ivy Compton-Burnett addiction again, and happening upon a title I had not yet read, I plunged into Mother and Son (1955), a late, immensely enjoyable, very funny and indeed almost mellow work (which deservedly won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize). Mother and Son is a quite straightforward affair, driven by the interactions between two households – one of spinsters and a cat (of whom more later), …

Had an incredible display of acrobatics yesterday when a couple young Peregrine Falcons had a disagreement. Initially the darker bird was cruising around, doing some practice dives on the peeps. Then the lighter bird came out of nowhere and took a swipe at the first bird (which I didn’t catch, it happened real fast!). Well, that dark bird took offence and what followed were several aerial encounters which reminded me …

Thanks to Jacob Wiczkowski for alerting me to this post from the Western Railway Museum a few days ago. Their third BART cars has arrived! Following the arrival of an "A2" car in August and a "B2" car in September, they've now acquired "C1" car number 329. This car has led a less eventful existence than the other two, never having been renumbered or rebuilt, and is the only one …

Today on We Hunted the Mammoth we explore Donald Trump’s apparent use of hypnotic techniques in his speeches, looking at Trump’s recent comments about women and abortion, and uncovering four hypnotic tricks that may be influencing MAGA’s collective unconscious. Embedded Commands: How Trump disguises orders as predictions Confusion Technique: Using incoherence to bypass rational thinking Repetition: The power of rhythmic, incantatory speech patterns The Hypnotic Voice: Trump’s sometimes unusually smooth …

Evidently discovered by French astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1786, Comet Encke was the first periodic comet to be found after Halley’s Comet. It was named after Johann Franz Encke, who first calculated its orbit. It comes into play this morning because it is considered the source of at least part of the Taurid meteor shower, which is the subject of new work out of the University of Maryland that has …

A profile view of the jaws (with stripped screw holes) in the original pine jaw of this “carver’s vise” (this one is from StewMac, where it’s called a “Guitar Repair Vise.”) Every chair class Chris teaches seems to develop its own gravitational pull. It’s inevitable – if you orbit within 50 feet of a class taught by Chris Schwarz you will get sucked in. Now getting sucked into a class …

A guide to the Padang Besar Railway Station border crossing between Malaysia and Thailand. Padang Besar is an international railway station in Malaysia on the Thailand border. There is also a separate Padang Besar station in Thailand in Tambon Padangbesa. If you are getting the train between Thailand and Malaysia, you will be going through Padang Besar in Malaysia. This a guide for crossing the border at Padang Besar, and …

Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween screen printing project! Create t-shirts, tote bags, and poster prints that’re hauntingly fun and frightfully easy! Party Prints - Speedball Night Glo Acrylic Ink on Paper! If you’re a Halloween lover this project is for you! Using the Speedball Acrylic Night Glo Ink we made our own glow in the dark Halloween poster. This ink really gives your prints a twist. Great …

If the candidates for the Tory leadership sound much like ministers in the last year of the Conservative government, it’s because the leadership campaign started well before Sunak lost the election. But they lost that election very badly. To many it seems odd that the leadership contenders, at least publicly, appear in complete denial about this loss, and are carrying on as if it hadn’t happened. Given the nature of …

Forgive all the self-linking but this post continues a story. It’s been about 18 months since the big change. A few months later, I wrote about its ups and downs: I wanted to continue doing what I truly love to do on the web without that daily pressure to make the donuts. I like to think my donuts are tasty enough to enjoy even if they weren't available every day. …

The official Tour de France race guide ALWAYS SELLS OUT. It has all the info you need to follow the Tour de France. Here is how to find it.

Passage Brady is an interesting experiment in lying. Like every other arcade in Paris, Brady spills over two different streets on either side: 22 Boulevard de Strasbourg and 43 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Martin. Depending on which the side of the arcade one lives, one quickly starts believing that side to offer the one true opening into the arcade and the other opening is reinscribed in their minds as a deferred …