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I completely re-jiggered my website again, like I do.

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This week we celebrated jerky and crabs. By which I mean my brother's and my father's birthdays. I converted 20 pounds of meat into about 3, and we caught and cooked 45 blue crabs.

I was once again in California for two consecutive weeks.  I thought my brother needed to come see the West Coast and take in some of the scenery.

We were out in the greater Denver area for work last week, and we took the time to do some sightseeing.

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We've begun planting the 2014 garden, come take a look at what we've finished so far.

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WARNING: All of this is severely outdated and you will have a bad time if you follow these directions

Django includes a useful geographic services system called GeoDjango. Getting it up and running on CentOS can be a chore, particularly if you need packages newer than CentOS 6 provides. In this post, I'm going to list the steps I took install GeoDjango with PostgreSQL's PostGIS system. If you're reading this, then I'm going to assume you have at least a passing familiarity with Linux and Django.

A recent work project involved remote, unmanned computers set up to record weather data.  Every so often, we want to log in to the computers and download the data for processing.  The question is, if you are using off-the-shelf parts, can you make the remote computer reliably available?

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Apple's Boot Camp does not officially support Windows XP on computers shipped with OS X 10.7 ("Lion"). Keep reading for instructions on installing Windows XP on a late 2011 MacBook Pro.

UPDATED: Read Steve's comment for more info on getting XP running on a 2011 13 inch MacBook Pro.

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I have a full-time job, so this week I decided to spend a little of it on supporting the people who develop the programs I use regularly. Here's a list of the developers I donated to:

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