Early Retirement

Early Retirement

This article addresses the joys, challenges, and some practical aspects of retiring young. The author retired in 2001, at the age [...]

Download a 12 sided calendar

12 sided calendar

Download a dodecahedral calendar after your own specifiation. You can choose between PostScript and PDF format. Choose PostScript format if you want to mark holidays and birthdays. The PostScript file explains how to [...]

Vinyl to CD

BBC NEWS | Programmes | Click | Turning old music into digital
Turning old music into digital is one of those projects that I have on my someday/maybe list. And maybe someday I’ll actually [...]

Free textbook: Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model

Textbook Revolution: Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model

Statistical Analysis with the General Linear Model is an introductory textbook describing statistical analysis with ANOVA, regression, and analysis of covariance. It is intended for social sciences students with a minimum of mathematical background, who have had one previous statistics class (covering descriptive statistics and basic hypothesis [...]

The R Project for Statistical Computing

Textbook Revolution: The R Project for Statistical Computing

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. If you have more than a passing interest in statistics and data presentation, R provides you with a great set of tools to work [...]

Benford’s Law

Benford’s Law

Benford’s law predicts a decreasing frequency of first digits, from 1 through 9. Every entry in data sets developed by Benford for numbers appearing on the front pages of newspapers, by Mark Nigrini of 3,141 county populations in the 1990 U.S. Census and by Eduardo Ley of the Dow Jones Industrial Average from 1990-93 [...]

Phinished

A discussion and support group for people who cannot seem to finish their dissertations or theses.

PhinisheD

This discussion and support group is for you if:

You are sick to death of people asking you “How is your dissertation [or thesis] coming?” (but you really would like to talk about your troubles in finishing — with anybody except those [...]

Reverse dictionary search

Reverse dictionary search – Lifehacker
The OneLook Dictionary site has added a new reverse dictionary feature which allows you to, obviously enough, look up a word by [...]

Checklist: 11 things to do after a hack

Checklist: 11 things to do after a hack

From SearchWindowSecurity.com: We preach quite a bit on this site about how to prevent security breaches, and hopefully you take it to heart and play an active role in hardening your systems. But sometimes even that ounce of prevention and pound of cure isn’t enough to defend against [...]

How to Take Great Photos of an Electronics Product with a Digital Camera

How to Take Great Photos of an Electronics Product with a Digital Camera
This article is geared to amateur digital camera users though much information applies to those who use film and scan their prints. There are links to related reading and a glossary at the end of the article. Please note that most photos [...]

Tab Mix Plus

Today I replaced Tabbrowser Preferences, TabX, and Click2Tab with Tab Mix Plus

Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:Tab Mix Plus – All Releases

Tab Mix Plus completely enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. It also includes a [...]

IE View Lite

Today I replaced my long time favorite IEView with IE View Lite.

Mozilla Update :: Extensions — More Info:IE View Lite – All Releases

This is a cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub, which is 47.4 KB. All the same UI and features are there. It has a right click menu item to open a [...]

Adblock Plus: Save your time and traffic

Today I replaced the Adblock extension with Adblock Plus.

mozdev.org – adblockplus: index
Ever been annoyed by all those ads and banners on the internet that often take longer to download than everything else on the page? Install Adblock Plus now and get rid of them. Right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context [...]

Free Online Graph Paper

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs
Downloadable and very printable, I find these PDFs [...]

Unchangeable Rules of Software Change

Brad Appleton’s ACME Blog

Rule #0: Change is Inevitable!
The Requirements/Plans ARE going to change!
Rule #1: Resistance is Futile!
There isn’t a darn thing you can do to prevent Rule #0.
Rule #2: Change is like Quicksand — Fighting it only makes it worse!
The more you try to deny and defy rule #1 by attempting to prevent rule #0, the [...]

The Firefly Season 2 Project

Joss Whedon’s Firefly Season 2
Captain Mal and the crew of Serenity need your help to stay [...]

Free Educational Podcasts

‘Stanford On ITunes’ Is For Everybody – Forbes.com
In an unprecedented move, Stanford University is collaborating with Apple Computer [1] to allow public access a wide range of lectures, speeches, debates and other university content through iTunes. No need to pay the $31,200 tuition. No need to live on campus. No need even to be [...]

What to do when they ask for your Social Security Number

totse.com | What to do when they ask for your Social Security Number

Many people are concerned about the number of organizations asking for their Social Security Numbers. They worry about invasions of privacy and the oppressive feeling of being treated as just a number. Unfortunately, I can’t offer any hope about the dehumanizing effects of identifying [...]

A Guide to: How to Win Friends & Influence People

How to Win Friends & Influence People – Basic Summary
This guide to the ideas in Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People will help anyone more effectively build relationships and motivate others. The following has been edited down to simply establish the book’s core ideas and should take less than five minutes [...]

Meetings considered harmful

Meetings considered harmful – Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
Researchers in organisational psychology have confirmed that meetings are, well, evil. A study conducted by the University of Minnesota found that the amount and length of meetings correlate with “negative effects” (burnout, anxiety, and depression) on [...]