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Psychology of risk
Interesting article I just read, linked from Bruce Schneier’s blog (one of my favourite morning reads), about how irrational people are about judging and comparing risk. People often overestimate one risk, and underestimate another, and end up making poor choices. An example from the article: after 9/11, people became irrationally afraid of flying. They cancelled…
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Transferring ratings from Gallery2 to ACDSee
Recently I wanted to transfer the image ratings from one of my online photo galleries into the ACDSee program I use to manage my photos at home. It was a large album, thousands of photos, so doing this by hand was just not going to happen. Here’s how I did it.
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PA11-NIS iPod interface in my G35
I have a Monster iCarPlay Wireless 200 FM transmitter that I was using to play my iPod in my car. It is a pretty cleverly designed thing, tunable to any frequency. So you don’t have to try to find eight preset frequencies and hope they’ll cover everywhere you ever want to go. As far as…
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D975XBX / Conroe build hassles
Assembling the new computer proved to be quite a source of frustration. But I got it going. And so begins the epic saga…
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Christmas came early!
The last of the parts for my new studio PC finally arrived today. I received a big box of almost all the parts within a couple days of placing my order with NCIX. But the just-released Seasonic M12 power-supply was back-ordered. But now, at last, all the parts are in my hands. Tonight… we build!