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YouTube – Cool telephone wire cutting machine robot mounted on a truck
Some video I took of a cool machine mounted on the back of a truck that was hauling 3″ thick old telephone copper wire bundle cable out of the ground and chopping it up into 4′ segments to be hauled away. They were then going to lay fiber optic cable in the hole where they…
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More Springtime in St. Louis pictures
It is glorious weather in St. Louis right now (this is one of about maybe 12 days a year where it is simply wonderful weather.) Soon it will be very hot and humid. Right now, delightful. It’s been fun being able to take pictures of the cherry blossoms (sakura) and magnolia trees as they burst…
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Yay, I just got a small Robin Kibby painting! “Highway 880, number 9 – Teeny Oil Painting”
Description oil on canvas by Robin Kibby (c) 2006 4 in. x 4 in. (1.5 in. deep) About the Highway Paintings: This series celebrates my commute to and from the Oakland studio – landscapes created by layers of cement, Oakland shipyard, distant San Francisco, and the Marin Headlands. The highway undersides are from a part…
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Orisinal.com – Winterbells [beautiful simple but hard flash game]
Gorgeous flash game with wonderful music and a delightful design. Play it now: Orisinal.com – Winterbells Lots more of these neat gentle and delightful games by Orisinal here. (Discovered it using Stumble Upon) Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/03/26/orisinalcom-winterbells-beautiful-simple-but-hard-flash-game/
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Spring has arrived in St. Louis!
Spring has arrived in St. Louis!, originally uploaded by gserafini. I took a bunch of pictures today of the beautiful spring blossoms exploding all over Tower Grove Park. The magnolia trees are spectacular right now. Click here for more of my spring pictures Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/03/25/spring-has-arrived-in-st-louis/
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Check out the Barak Obama “1984” YouTube ad
An excellently done mashup of the famous Apple 1984 ad featuring Hillary as Big Brother and Barak as the revolution. YouTube – Vote Different Link to share this: https://www.gabrielserafini.com/blog/2007/03/22/check-out-the-barak-obama-1984-youtube-ad/
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How I used the Unix command line to do a multi-file search and replace to fix over 4,700 individual files
Evil hackers attack! Some customers of mine recently reported some suspicious behavior on one of their sites. I discovered, with dismay, that a number of months ago there was a nasty cPanel exploit that some evil hackers had used to insert a malicious line of code into the bottom of every HTML page on this…
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And I’m now finally on Facebook and Twitter
Turning into the old fogey, trying to keep up with all these new-fangled social networks… 🙂 I like Facebook so far a lot better than MySpace. Better designed, better organized. My Facebook profile And my Twitter page, although I’m not sure how much I’ll really end up using it. Most of the people who care…
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DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 – Palm DiddleBug image extractor script for OS X, Windows, Linux (Replaces Didcon 2.0)
DiddleBug Extractor 2.1 Drawing pictures on your Palm I use an excellent free Open Source program called DiddleBug on my Palm Treo 700p for doing small black and white drawings. The latest version of DiddleBug creates 320×320 pixel size drawings. These are referred to on their site as “high-res” pictures instead of the 160×160 pixel…
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St. Louis Art Museum pictures and video
Download full-size panorama (4370 x 972 px) I made this video with my new camera (Canon SD800-IS) tonight at the St. Louis Art Museum. There was a show called “Art in Bloom” going on and we went with Kathy for dinner and to see a jazz singer. And here are some of the pictures I…