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The Honda Amigo « jeffbrand.net

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April 15, 2012. This past winter I purchased a PF50R Honda Amigo moped. I quickly learned that this vehicle is relatively rare in America. While I was able to find parts and service manuals, most of the reference materials and parts websites are in Dutch. It seems this model is very popular in Holland and Belgium (where mine was manufactured.). The first big source of information in English was actually on the backup of Geocities. Facebook’s Honda Amigo Fanclub. 2016 jeffbrand.net powered by WordPress.

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State of the art in CAPTCHAs? « jeffbrand.net

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State of the art in CAPTCHAs? April 27, 2012. CAPTCHAs are a necessary evil. These days there is no lower time-investment trade-off that works as well to prevent automated submissions to comment sections, user registration, and contact forms. That being said, they are not without issues. So that begs the question: what else is out there? Potentially useful alternative KittenAuth made waves 6 years ago but never progressed further. Others like the poorly-designed Catcha have arrived at a similar idea ...

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Rides « jeffbrand.net

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In the past few years I’ve developed an odd passion for 50cc scooters and mopeds. Some people consider it a gateway to motorcycle ownership, but I disagree. I’m more intrigued by how various technologies and techniques can be combined to extract the most speed and efficiency out of a small engine. To date, I own 3 different 50cc vehicles of varying condition:. 1964 Honda Super Cub. 2016 jeffbrand.net powered by WordPress.

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About Me « jeffbrand.net

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I like to tinker. I like to know how things work. This geeky fascination with things keeps me pretty well entertained. Currently, I satisfy my curiosity as part of my career as a web developer. I am paid to solve puzzles caused by managing information with computers. There’s no shortage of work there. 2016 jeffbrand.net powered by WordPress.

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November 11, 2011. After a couple years with the dark look, I’ve upgraded the site theme to a newer cleaner one called HelloSexy. It does a much better job of working with the syntax highlighting enhancements so code samples should look much better. Comments Off on New Look. Cleaning Up After Fake Antivirus Attacks. June 30, 2011. Some particularly vicious infections go the extra mile and use convincing error messages and try to recreate symptoms of a hard drive failure. And Microsoft Safety Scanner.

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Free Wifi Diagnostic Tool: inSSIDer « jeffbrand.net

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Free Wifi Diagnostic Tool: inSSIDer. November 22, 2011. Is a handy free tool for surveying wireless access points around you. Similar to Wifi Analyzer. On the Android, this tool displays signal strength and channel usage graphs for all hotspots in the area. Use it to find the channel with the least interference, identify conflicting SSIDs, or just learn more about network hardware in your area. This app is free and open source under an Apache license and is available for Windows and Linux.

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Something like Spring « jeffbrand.net

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March 12, 2012. Perhaps it wouldn’t be fair to call it hibernating, given the mild winter. Is still winding down and I have a ton on my plate for the coming months, but for the first time in many months I have time to think about the road ahead. It’s not like I have the wildest plans: scooter/moped/bicycle repair and riding are definitely in the plan. A number of other projects, personal and professional have been waiting for March to arrive and can now get some attention.

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Importing MaxMind’s World Cities Data to MySQL « jeffbrand.net

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Importing MaxMind’s World Cities Data to MySQL. May 7, 2012. One of the inevitable early steps in the development of any location-aware app is linking location in the form of latitude and longitude to a city, state, and country. This short tutorial will describe the few steps needed to import MaxMind’s World Cities. Database into a table in your own MySQL database. These steps assume you have command-line access to your MySQL server. Be sure to read MaxMind’s specifications. Idx lat long (. City ascii ,.