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Getting Crayon Out of Washed and Dried Clothes....

daniel —Mon, 10/13/2014 - 9:13am

How-to from mommidiary.blogspot.com works quite well.

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Hot Water Heater References

daniel —Sun, 03/02/2014 - 12:16pm

About Thermocouples and TCO

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Electricity - plug layout

daniel —Fri, 03/08/2013 - 7:37am

Looking at the plug, hot is on the right, neutral is on the left, ground is on the bottom.

Neutral is the longer slot on some plugs.

If you are looking at an uninstalled outlet, hot is the brass colored terminal, while neutral is the silver one.

From wiki.answers.com

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RTH7400D1008 Honeywell Programmable Thermostat, set the date

daniel —Fri, 11/30/2012 - 10:25am

I'm not sure how it occurred, but, the day was off on my thermostat. A quick call to Honeywell's Tech support resolved the issue quite quickly. Here are the steps:

  1. Select System
  2. Press and Hold Fan
  3. Should see 0120 with setting 20 blinking
  4. Press next to 0130, this is the year
  5. Press next to 0140, this is the month
  6. Press next to 0150, this is the day
  7. Press Done.

You should be good now :-)

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Avidemux

daniel —Sat, 07/28/2012 - 7:27pm

Avidemux worked pretty well for me for the task of rotating a movie by 90 degrees.

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Excellent usecase for bittorrent

daniel —Mon, 05/21/2012 - 10:21am

Wil Wheaton recently made a case for the use of bittorent. What I found particularly interesting was actually a comment left by somebody that gives some resources for content that is great to cache:

An offline version of wikipedia that has been edited for school use
and
A collection of books housed by the gutenburg project.

I think I need to setup a bittorrent server and add myself as a permanent seed for these as well.

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Google Advanced Search Operators

daniel —Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:34pm

Cheat Sheet

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Filter out sites that are annoying in a Google Search

daniel —Wed, 11/17/2010 - 9:05pm

Some spammers are now scraping knowledge base websites and reformatting them in order to display adds. If you find them as annoying as I do, you can do the following.
Add a -site:name.com to the google search.
Unfortunately, it has to be done every time you query.

For example, my original search:
groovy ant sshexec outputproperty
My revised search:
groovy ant sshexec outputproperty -site:efreedom.com -site:questionhub.com

There, spam gone. I only see this getting worse though... Google needs to do something about this soon (allowing a more permanent per user blacklist would be nice) to avoid search results becoming less useful. I don't want to see some spammers mashup, I want to see the original site.

A discussion on stackoverflow about the problem.

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Nifty book recommendation tool

daniel —Thu, 06/10/2010 - 1:37pm

Library Thing

books you have + favorite authors = recommendations!

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Laws

daniel —Thu, 06/03/2010 - 9:26am

A great collection of laws that govern the cosmos

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daniel —Mon, 02/26/2007 - 12:19pm

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.

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