MarkTaff.com

1. Back to School; Tutee Spot Available
(News/College)

... idea of my schedule availability by peeking at my calendar.  You can poke around the portfolio and software sections of this site to peruse the code I've written that I've made publicly available.  N.B. ...

2. Well Mr. Big Brother IRS man... take my pound of flesh and sleep well.
(News/Liberty)

... before it was taken down. I have formatted the HTML so it is a reasonable facsimile of the original page. For purposes of fidelity, I have chosen to not indicate any English errors in the original. Judge ...

3. Joomla! Creative Commons Tagging Plugin
(Software/Joomla!)

I've decided to finally publish the plugin I wrote that tags my articles with a Creative Commons license. Simply add a tag like to an article to tag it as GNU GPL version 3. Available tags are: cc-by ...

4. Linux: Wrapper to Copy Files from STDIN
(Software/Linux)

... to be copied from STDIN.  The GNU `find' command can be used do this, if you want to filter by the info available from stat(1).  But what if you want to filter by other info?  In my case I want to filter ...

5. The Price of Liberty is...Hot Dog Gruel?
(News/Liberty)

...  I found these guards to be quite pleasant and professional, and the process to be reasonable. The whole process only took about ten minutes, which is far better than checking a gun in baggage at the ...

6. Will The DC City Council Ever Learn Their Lesson?
(News/Gun Rights)

... is no longer manufactured, and its maker is no longer available to process the handgun’s certification through the bureaucracy. The complaint is now available on the SAF website. *Full Disclosure for ...

7. Go Johannes, go, go!
(News/Aerospace Engineering)

... are in or near the habitable zone of a wide variety of spectral types of stars Determine the range of sizes and shapes of the orbits of these planets Estimate how many planets there are in multiple-star ...

8. Windows Simple Backup Script
(News/Coding)

... your job is foolish. So, after a recent scare where an important database became corrupted (though I was able to repair the corruption for the user), I wrote a little batch script to make a copy of several ...

9. Jury Duty
(News/Liberty)

... as being deceptive and dishonorable. After much internal debate, and consulting with my attorney, I emailed the following letter to the King County Superior Court: January 28, 2009 An Open Letter ...

10. You've Come a Long Way, Babe
(News/Aerospace Engineering)

... suitable for microbial life. Spirit, and its twin Opportunity have, as reported by CNN: ...returned 250,000 images, covered more than 21 kilometers (13 miles), climbed a mountain, descended into ...

11. Welcome
(Meta/Meta)

... wallpapers will remain available from the archived version of my website, directly accessible via  the photos link in the main menu. I have also begun to roll out bits and pieces of the new system to ...

12. Pacifica First Impressions
(News/Computers)

... was able to shrink my main windows partition to make room for Linux.  I was also able to set up LVM for /home, /usr, and /var.  All in all, I was able to turn pacifica into a dual-boot box without having ...

13. War is Inevitable
(Meta/Quotes, Aphorisms & Epigrams)

... contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it ...

14. No Nads Nickels a No-show
(News/Gun Rights)

... there was an autographed photo of Mayor Nickels himself.  My eyes were then drawn to the brass plaque to the right of the photo, and I felt myself grin.  The host had seated us at Mayor Nickels' table. ...

15. Don't Ban Guns, Ban Nickels
(News/Gun Rights)

... Seattle. If any reasonable person had any doubt about state law on this issue, that doubt was laid to rest by the Attorney General. As the Washington State Attorney General, Rob McKenna has a duty ...

16. Credits & Licenses
(Meta/Meta)

... the bottom of the article, news item, and or other writing. Permissions To request permission for a use of my copyrighted material, beyond fair use or uses permitted under the applicable licenses, ...

17. Pacifica is Dead! Long Live Pacifica!
(News/Computers)

... from now, I need to take it this winter quarter.  Due to my class schedules, I have three classes each separated by 2 to 3 hour periods.  Obviously, in order to be able to do my programming homework in ...

18. Joomla! Image Captioning
(Software/Joomla!)

... obviously isn't permitted.  This leads to unpredictable page rendering, and outright chokes Konqueror 3.5.10.  Also, the existing application doesn't work for images inside of a hyperlink, which is downright ...

19. GeSHi Extreme
(Software/Joomla!)

... languages currently available in your Joomla! installation. You may download all of the available language files from the GeSHi website.  As of this writing, GeSHi 1.0.8.1 is the latest stable release.  ...

20. Back to School
(News/College)

... Trigonometry. While not ideal, it is acceptable. As to the Trig, there were some holes in my understanding of algebra, so I went back and audited Precalculus I rather than moving directly on to Calculus ...