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IT | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Avoiding counterfeit goods on Amazon: mission impossible? I mentioned previously that I seldom shop for electronics on Amazon.com any more, preferring B&H Photo whenever possible. I now have another reason: avoiding counterfeit goods. My company boardroom is in an electromagnetic war zone—dozens of competing WiFi access points … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Avoiding counterfeit goods on Amazon: mission impossible? How the iPad Mini killed my iPhone. The WordPres...
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Python | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Street sweeping reminders in iCal. San Francisco sweeps streets twice a month in residential neighborhoods, and you will be fined if your car is parked on a street being swept. On my street, the schedule is the first and third Monday of each month, between … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Street sweeping reminders in iCal. Scanning your iTunes library for DRM-infested books. Comments Off on Scanning your iTunes library for DRM-infested books. Note: I am keeping th...
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How I Discover Great Content | Just Dudas
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How I Discover Great Content. January 3, 2015. A number of folks have asked me over the years what system I use for discovering great content. Here is my setup as of the beginning of 2015…. RSS — I follow a number of regular news and information sources using Feedly. The feeds are a mix of personal blogs and technology publications — personal blogs: A VC. Both Sides of the Table. And Seth’s Blog. This Is Going to be Big. Dan Primack Term Sheet. Is the current rotation. That’s my routine to discover...
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Mastheads | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Click on any masthead to expand it. 2001-11-001.jpg—Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California, USA. 2002-03-005.jpg—Russian Hill, San Francisco, California, USA. 2002-07-001.jpg—Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, USA. 2004-12-001.jpg—Embarcadero, San Francisco, California, USA. 2005 012 28.jpg—Polk Gulch, San Francisco, California, USA. 2006-05-001.jpg—Alamo Square, San Francisco, California, USA. 2007-05-001.jpg—Gare du Nord, Paris, France. 2010-01-002.jp...
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Food | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Divine Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Truffle. Divine Chocolate is owned by a Ghanaian cocoa farmers’ cooperative. All the profits go back to the farmers, unlike the “Fairtrade” scam where the expensive certification primarily benefits self-aggrandizing Western auditors and marketers. For that reason alone it is a … Continue reading →. My favorite hamburgers in San Francisco. Is a new Ben and Jerry flavor I heartily endorse. Anthony’s Cookies grand opening. Another gourmet tr...
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Network | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Deep packet inspection rears it ugly head. Last Friday I started noticing error messages in my production environment. URLs were being mangled, two consecutive characters being replaced by 0x80 and 0x01 or 0x80 and 0x04, causing UTF-8 decode exceptions to be logged, as well as failures for … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Deep packet inspection rears it ugly head. Doing my bit for the Internet. Comments Off on Doing my bit for the Internet. I have SPF verification...
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Economics | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. I just wasted half an hour of my life on the phone with my credit card company’s fraud department, as someone attempted to buy expensive tickets from an airline in Panama. Most likely my card number was compromised by Target, … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Externalities again. The Gresham’s law of Amazon Web Services. In the bad (good? Comments Off on The Gresham’s law of Amazon Web Services. What is heard, and what is not heard. As a foreigner living in San Fra...
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Stuff | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Avoiding counterfeit goods on Amazon: mission impossible? I mentioned previously that I seldom shop for electronics on Amazon.com any more, preferring B&H Photo whenever possible. I now have another reason: avoiding counterfeit goods. My company boardroom is in an electromagnetic war zone—dozens of competing WiFi access points … Continue reading →. Comments Off on Avoiding counterfeit goods on Amazon: mission impossible? Heat sealers: organizer’s secret weapon. One of ...
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Temboz | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. Temboz 0.8 released. I am pleased to announce the release of Temboz 0.8. The main change in this release is its ability to work with either SQLite 2.x or SQLite 3.x. SQLite 3.x is now the recommended version, see the Temboz Wiki for … Continue reading →. Temboz 0.7 released. Temboz 0.5 released. Temboz 0.4.4 released. I have released version 0.4.4 of my web-based aggregator, Temboz. Apart from cosmetic fixes, the new version improves filtering by supplying ...I have re...
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Photo | Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog
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Fazal Majid's low intensity weblog. TL:DR avoid them. I seldom print photos any more. When I do, I prefer to make photobooks, as the format is way more convenient than loose prints, takes little space, and looks more polished than a traditional photo album. Unfortunately, most … Continue reading →. Comments Off on ArtisanState review. A passel of miniature tripods. Comments Off on A passel of miniature tripods. The ultimate irrelevance of image quality. Sony RX1 first impressions. Ansel Adams wrote a cel...
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