I’ve found four excellent things online recently and think I should re-share them to all zero of my faithful blog readers. Hi friends! Anyway, I just posted a rant about Twitter, so no need to go there again. That’s the first one.<\/p>\n
My friend Adam showed me this excellent free PDF book by David MacKay called Sustainable Energy – without the hot air<\/a>. It is straight talk about all the crazy myths and misconceptions going around about renewables and other energy issues. The first few items on that link are raving review one-liners by high-profile peeps. Well written with much infused sarcasm.<\/p>\n And from Slashdot, I read a bit of this pdf (A Mathematician’s Lament)<\/a> on the status of the USA mathematical education system. It’s twenty-five pages of welcome truth. Again sarcastic and wonderful.<\/p>\n Finally, there’s the DropBox. I’d heard about it earlier, but at work in Seattle where I’m actually using 2 computers, it’s become invaluable. It seamlessly integrates into my file managers (My Computer in windows, Nautilus in Ubuntu, and I think Finder in Mac). When I drag or change a file in my designated drop box folder on any computer, it automatically synchronizes across all computers. It’s superbly wonderful. As a bonus, it’s web interface keeps versions of every single update. So if you want to go back to the file you overwrote 2 days ago, no problem, there it is. Click this link<\/a> to accept my referral and give me 250 extra MB! Or this one<\/a> to sign up without giving me a bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve found four excellent things online recently and think I should re-share them to all zero of my faithful blog readers. Hi friends! Anyway, I just posted a rant about Twitter, so no need to go there again. That’s the first one. My friend Adam showed me this excellent free PDF book by David MacKay … Continue reading online happiness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partofthething.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}