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CafePress Fix Checkout with Amazon, or Remove It!

For the last week I have been trying to buy a t-shirt from CafePress for the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk, and CafePress have three options to pay. Sweet, ‘Checkout with Amazon’ I say, I love Amazon. So press that, then … Continue reading

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Superlative is not a Superlative

Looking at the back of a box of cereal I noticed this great modesty: No it more sounds like bad copy editing to me. Noting that superlative is not a superlative, it’s an adjective (or adverb). I’m guess this came … Continue reading

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USD Thinking

Now that I’m in the US I notice how all news is 100% US based in perspective, i.e. it all happens due to US based reasons. Thus you see stock charts like these: And it’s all about Trimble has done … Continue reading

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IEEE good at high tech, bad at simple security

Crazy story of the day, yesterday I got a letter in the mail from IEEE stating that my Credit Card information used to pay for attending the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference in December has been illegally accessed by a third … Continue reading

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Interface Builder does not save Xib file on Build

After 30-50 minutes of rage and starting the project over, I learned the hard way that just because Interface Builder is part of the Xcode suite, it has no clue when Xcode is building. Thus does not save the .xib … Continue reading

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