I used the Evasi0n program for jailbreaking the phone. In brief, it involves backing up the phone to iTunes, letting Evasi0n do its thin Reasons for jailbreaking: Curiosity. The seductress of “let’s break something” whispered sweet-nothings in my ear. Use a different browser. More specifically, I want to install ad-blocking because some of the sites […]
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In case any local cyclists happen to be on them and want to say hello as you pass, here’s my list of registered bike rides for 2013. I’m hoping to use these as incentive to get back to my 2008 form. April: Daffodil Classic is a ride down south near Orting, WA. There are two
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Loci is a locomotive replica built and donated in 1983 by Oscar and Hazel Scherrer, about a block from the public park in Granit Hills, the hilly loop on the McClinchy Mile bike ride I did last weekend. (Not coincidentally, it also holds a geocache.) Considering this is my third ride since September, I was
… speaking of great Coursera offerings, I just finished Katie Ferraro’s excellent Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention course. Its focus on evidence-based medicine was refreshing and helped clear up a lot of confusion I’ve had from contradictory sources over the years. Since Coursera content is prone to being archived, I wanted to preserve the extensive set
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Charles “Dr Chuck” Severance put together an interesting video on his reflections on Coursera from his “Internet History, Technology, and Security” class. Some areas in the video that I’d call out: 01:42 – 02:45 — Chuck shows us how cozy his instructor’s room is. He expands upon the technology setup here, but it’s basically a couple
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My friend Rachael tweeted about a library geocache presentation during her Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) event. I was looking back among the geocaches I’ve done and found quite a few of them among my favorites: By George was my first library geocache, done during a conference visit to Penn State University. The multi-cache
Though it is definitely not something I’d ever want to have lunge out of someone’s yard and start chasing me when I’m on a bike ride, the T.Rex at the Chicago Field Museum was a lot smaller than I had imagined.
