Breathing Observation Bubble (B.O.B.) in Hawaii
[youtube &w=640&h=480] This apparently is a new “water tourist thing” in Hawaii. Looks interesting!
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A Short History of the Modern Calendar
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What does "al dente" mean when cooking pasta?
Al dente is a fancy term for pasta that’s fully cooked, but not overly soft. The phrase is Italian for “to the tooth,” which comes from testing the pasta’s consistency with your teeth. [ wikipedia] How does one cook pasta “just right”? According to the National Pasta Association: Boil 4 to 6 quarts of water for one pound of dry pasta. (You can divide this recipe depending on how much pasta you are cooking.) ...
Find out the physical memory size in osx
Far too often I accomplish this by clicking on the apple icon on the menu bar, then click “About this Mac”, then just read from the popup window. This is perfectly fine and all, until one day I was given only a shell and I needed to get that info. Well, here is how you can do it in command line: sysctl -a | grep mem Then look for hw.memsize in the list. The number is in byte size, so you will need to do some conversion in your head. For example, if you see hw.memsize = 12884901888, that’s actually 12 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024, which is 12Gb. ...
English is a crazy language
Nest Learning Thermostat
[youtube &w=640&h=360] Interesting thermostat from Nest. The website also has an installation tutorial video.
Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ
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廣州用水泥料做鹼水麵！
[youtube &w=640&h=480] 【食在廣州】廣州用水泥料做鹼水麵！
DonorsChoose.org
[youtube &w=640&h=480] If you ever want to donate to school kids, check out this DonorsChoose.org website! Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. ...
MySQL converting Text to Varchar
One incentive of converting a text column to a varchar column is that, you can index that column for quicker query. Before converting, you want to make sure you won’t be truncating anything. Run the following to make sure SELECT MAX( LENGTH( target_column ) ) FROM target_table As long as the returned length is less than your varchar length, you are good to go.