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Elevator Music: May 2008
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Monday, May 19, 2008. Cold War Missiles on Chicago Lakefront. About a year ago I learned that Montrose Harbor in Chicago ( Google Map. Was once the site of a cold war era missile defense installation called a "Nike Missile Base". Back then I searched around for historical photos and couldn't find any. Along comes a website from Michael Epperson on Nike Missile Site C-41. With tons of photos and information on this little known facet of Chicago history. Posted by Greg Sandell. Tuesday, May 13, 2008. Ns of...
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Elevator Music: March 2009
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Friday, March 27, 2009. Hacking a Linksys NSLU2. I bought a Linksys NSLU2. A while back, which is a low cost (about $99) appliance for turning two USB disk drives into a Network Attached Share (NAS) system. This lets me set up file storage centrally located on my LAN (as opposed to attaching it to one computer on the LAN and setting up a share). What's inside is a small Linux computer mounted on a single circuitboard. And that's where the fun comes in. As the device's Wikipedia page. Here is my n. Descri...
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Elevator Music: May 2009
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Friday, May 15, 2009. Solving Character Set Problems: ASCII, ISO-8859, WinLatin1 and UTF-8. Character Sets and Feeds. I work for a company which receives huge incoming text feeds from our clients, which we filter, transform and massage to go out to the major search engines. Much of the work of cleaning incoming feeds consists of replacing undesirable characters (e.g. fancy foreign characters and symbols) that come from the client. For search engines we have to provide the l. 7-bit Ascii (ISO 646). Below ...
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Elevator Music: November 2008
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Mastercard Commercial I'd Like to See. Karl Rove and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales found to be involved in a cover up of the U.S. attorney firings by the Senate Judiciary Committee? Valerie Plame to take CIA leak lawsuit to Supreme Court? A democratic-controlled White House, Senate and Congress? Posted by Greg Sandell. 2008 US Presidential Election. I'm pleased to announce my 4-year-old daughter Claudia's first photo gallery. Posted by Greg Sandell. My friend Andr...
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Elevator Music: September 2008
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008. Job hunter tips: questions to ask employers. If you're a web software developer and in the market for a job right now, this list of questions to ask your potential employer could be helpful:. Http:/ docs.google.com/Doc? Now it's not a perfect list, since it's obviously skewed towards a open-source/java enterprise web developer. But if you find it useful, here it is! Posted by Greg Sandell. Bush economics: how many ways can you show it? Posted by Greg Sandell. If your total ...
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Elevator Music: April 2009
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Sunday, April 19, 2009. George Soros' book The Crash of 2008. I'm reading George Soros' 'The Crash of 2008 and What it Means; the New Financial Paradigm' . George Soros is the 29th richest person in the world, and a champion of progressive causes. The way out of the mess is to restore a balance with rational observation, and clear the air of old beliefs. That's about as few lines as I could express it in! Posted by Greg Sandell. Sunday, April 12, 2009. ICrossing is hiring a Java developer in Chicago.
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Elevator Music: December 2008
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Sunday, December 14, 2008. Urban Sketching - Misc. Here are a few sketches from a few years back. This is of Chicago guitarist Eric Lugosch. This is a self-portrait sketched in pastels on paper at an open house at the Hyde Park Art C. In Winter '07. It was done in a room themed as Andy Warhol style portraits; hung on the wall were various classic Warhol portraits ( Marilyn Monroe. Posted by Greg Sandell. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Greg Sandell is a web software developer in Chicago. 2008 US Presidential...
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Elevator Music: August 2008
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Friday, August 22, 2008. In the 2004 Presidential election, Republicans took a quote from John Kerry about his vote on Iraq. War funding and rode it all the way to a Bush win. Karl Rove described it as "the gift that kept on giving". Well, it's Christmas for the Democrats at last. Besides the video above, we've got a lot of nuggets from the senator:. You're not rich until you have $5 million. Unable to recall how many homes. He own. If the senator wants to learn, he could take this Google Earth tour.
