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    <updated>2012-11-15T09:29:07Z</updated>
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    <title>Reading an issue of Time with 7% off... everything, literally.</title>
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    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2012:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.172</id>

    <published>2012-11-15T09:17:39Z</published>
    <updated>2012-11-15T09:29:07Z</updated>

    <summary> So something, at least to my easily-amused mind happened to me lately. I wonder a little why I&apos;m posting this, but so is my life. [I haven&apos;t posted for a while. I&apos;ve been playing with Tumblr a little bit,...</summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[ <p>So something, at least to my easily-amused mind happened to me lately. I wonder a little why I'm posting this, but so is my life.</p>
<p style="font-size: 80%; ">[I haven't posted for a while. I've been <a href="http://ngeru.whare.electric.gen.nz/">playing with Tumblr</a> a little bit, for one thing. Being a busy stay-at-home housewife (yes, I'm a dude) is another.]</p>
<p>So this last week, I got a <a href="http://ngeru.info/Qfhx5L">'commemorative issue'</a> of <a href="http://www.time.com/"><cite>TIME</cite> magazine</a>. Definitely pretty, but when I reached for it to read, something was amiss.</p><p>Really amiss. Like 7% off the cover. Just <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186696507/in/set-72157632011754845">not the price</a> (which would have been less than I usually get with subscribing).</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186696507/in/set-72157632011754845"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8186696507_a68490ff2f_n.jpg" height="320" width="240" alt="7% was snipped off the side of the cover." /></a></p><p>(I have <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187787330/in/set-72157632011754845">measurements</a> of the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187799996/in/set-72157632011754845">missing</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186722967/in/set-72157632011754845">portion</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/sets/72157632011754845/detail/">all of the other photographs of interest from this magazine copy</a>, for the curious.)</p><p>Which would make, if I ordered it based on the design in <cite>TIME</cite>, the Obama birth certificate mug <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187780734/in/set-72157632011754845">kind of difficult to drink from</a>...</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187780734/in/set-72157632011754845"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8187780734_3e41bcffc0_n.jpg" height="320" width="240" alt="... with a whole side of the mug missing, really hard to use..." /></a></p><p>... but at least the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186513677/in/set-72157632011754845">M&amp;M's weren't destroyed</a>, nor the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187552522/in/set-72157632011754845">birth control pills</a>, though it was hard to read the context in which they were included in the issue.</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186513677/in/set-72157632011754845"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8201/8186513677_c42986fd67_n.jpg" height="320" width="240" alt="I wasn't entirely sure about all of the issues about Obama and Christie visiting a storm shelter." /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8187552522/in/set-72157632011754845"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8187552522_b4faf790a4_n.jpg" height="320" width="240" alt="nor was I about Representative Akin's views, though I did find out from other press sources." /></a></p><p>If it were just small shorts that were cut off due to their distance from the margin, I guess things would have been funny. However, it became a comedic routine once I figured out <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186612805/in/set-72157632011754845">whole parts of paragraphs of the cover article/story were missing</a>.</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/8186612805/in/set-72157632011754845"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8064/8186612805_e4ccf75572.jpg" height="500" width="375" alt="As funny as I find it, it did make reading the cover story kind of disjointed, if not weird." /></a></p><p>Ordinarily, I would not really worried, but this is kind of a really good issue that I would love to frame, being not far from a <a href="http://www.michaels.com/">Michaels</a>, at some stage. Maybe I should try my luck <a href="https://twitter.com/TIMEmag_Service">asking <cite>TIME</cite></a> for another one. I am kind of not sure, but we'll see.</p><p>[Cross-posted at <a href="http://ngeru.whare.electric.gen.nz/post/35766549244/reading-an-issue-of-time-with-7-off-everything">http://ngeru.whare.electric.gen.nz/post/35766549244/reading-an-issue-of-time-with-7-off-everything</a>.]</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Browser font fixing goodness (an awfully public note to myself)</title>
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    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2011:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.170</id>

    <published>2011-04-17T03:57:15Z</published>
    <updated>2011-04-17T05:00:56Z</updated>

    <summary>Or, the one where one finds weird things happening with fonts in various parts of the operating system. (So a slightly public note to self in case it happens to me again has arisen.)As per the similar http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2933984, I was...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Or, the one where one finds weird things happening with fonts in various parts of the operating system. (So a slightly public note to self in case it happens to me again has arisen.)</p><p>As per the similar <a href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2933984">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2933984</a>, I was having issues with Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox 4 in Windows 7 (64-bit) making most instances of Arial Regular turn Arial Bold since pretty much the day I upgraded from versions 8 and 3.<i>x</i> respectively. The mental note to myself (and in case any other people else get this) being that even though the forum thread is nearly four years old, the same idea of overwriting the fonts folder with the same errant font files (that is, copy out of <code>C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\</code> to another folder, and then back to <code>C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\</code> again; moving not required and probably, I suppose, not a good idea in case someone wants the fonts in the very short meantime) worked. Oddly, the Chrome 11 beta channel I am using was not affected, for whatever reason (which I assume was because of some different way fonts are used).</p><p>(Which reminds me: I need to finally write up how I got my home network's <abbr title="Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol">PPTP</abbr> server working in Ubuntu to mitigate <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep">Firesheep</a> and Firesheep-like attacks, nervously using unencrypted public <abbr title="Virtual Private Network">VPN</abbr> servers having finally pushed me to do it.)</p><div id="chromeVisPage2ExtensionDiv" style="display: none; ">Space</div><div id="chromeVisExtension2PageDiv" style="display: none; "></div><span style="border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-right-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-width: medium; border-right-width: medium; border-bottom-width: medium; border-left-width: medium; border-top-style: groove; border-right-style: groove; border-bottom-style: groove; border-left-style: groove; position: absolute; z-index: 100000000000; min-height: 5px; border-top-left-radius: 7px 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px 7px; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px 7px; display: none; top: 0px; min-width: 528px; max-width: 528px; left: 10px; right: 100px; "></span><div id="chromeVisBackground2LensDiv" style="display: none; "></div>]]>
        
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    <title>Pennsylvania marriage licence fees by county</title>
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    <published>2011-02-27T06:48:58Z</published>
    <updated>2011-02-27T08:46:46Z</updated>

    <summary>I recalled today that a while ago I mentioned that I was going to do a very bad imitation of the Big Mac Index seeing I haven&apos;t been scanning books for a little while. Well, to make the short story...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>I recalled today that a while ago I mentioned that I was going to do <a href="http://ngeru.info/95AvxV">a very bad imitation of the Big Mac Index</a> seeing I haven't been <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/">scanning books</a> for a little while. Well, to make the short story shorter, it was a <a href="http://ngeru.info/eUDaxI">fee comparison for marriage licences between Pennsylvania counties</a>. In all the madness about moving, I forgot that I had this for over six months now lying on my computer's desktop. (It's like adding everything one browses to one's favourites and then forgetting where one put the important link to one's university calendar. Somewhat.)</p><p><strong><a href="http://ngeru.info/g2dPC0">It may well not be complete</a></strong>, and so on, so, yeah, but it's now uploaded.</p><p>The main reason this started my interest is that when I got married in Pennsylvania I was told that any county could issue a marriage licence valid for anywhere in the state. (As an aside, the licensed celebrant need not be domiciled in the county of issue or marriage either, I thought I was also told.) Now, of course one is almost certainly going to go to their nearest marriage clerk (which, for example, in Centre County is the Clerk of Orphans' Court and Register of Wills -- a dual elected position -- in Bellefonte, and in Allegheny County is some non-elected office).</p><p>Naturally, costs are going to vary by the cost of living (paying the clerks), cost of the office (the rent or whatever) and the volume of applicants (of both licences and certificates), so I'm not berating the counties that are most expensive, I want to make clear. This was just purely for interest.</p><p>The short points are the following, <b>as of <i>roughly</i> June last year</b>:</p><p></p><ul><li>Allegheny County (Pittsburgh, and then some) and Philadelphia City at $75 and $80 respectively are the most 'expensive' counties.</li><li>The counties of Clearfield and Forest are the cheapest, with both charging $25.</li><li>If one is thinking long term, sealed copies of a marriage licence that are good for women taking their husband's name -- I never checked if a man could do it -- vary greatly as well. For example, Northampton County throws in a free certified copy after the used licence is returned, whereas to me it appears that Bucks County wants $20. (The married couples, at least in one county, get to keep an 'original' in the form of half of the licence that they keep, that said, but that's not replaceable, so a certified copy is always useful.)</li><li>Some counties have 'volume discounts' of sorts if one orders more than one sealed certificate at a time, in addition to the counties that bundle a free sealed certificate upon the celebrant filing the completed licence.</li><li>Some also ask for a stamped, self-addressed envelope, while others build the cost in to their fees.</li></ul><p><strong>The spreadsheet, to add a further warning to the disclaimers, is definitely out of date already</strong>; I get the feeling, for example, that the fee for the first sealed certificate is incorrect for Butler County. That said, I have no guarantees with my busy life nowadays that I will update the list, but I shall attempt to.</p><p>As of right now, <a href="http://ngeru.info/eUDaxI">http://ngeru.info/eUDaxI</a> here at <a href="http://www.ibibliio.org/">ibiblio</a> is where you'll find the <a href="http://ngeru.info/g1Ro1Z">current June 2010 version of the spreadsheet</a>. It's in Microsoft Excel .xlsx, because that's the easiest format for me to manipulate the data with (so no you-should-have-used-OpenOffice.org, please, which I would have used had it what I wanted). The undated .xlsx files are symlinks to the current file, in case I do upload this. <em>[<span style="text-transform:uppercase;">Update:</span> I forgot about the Google Spreadsheets option, but <a href="http://ngeru.info/iilVR8">loading the 'last update' symlink in read-only mode on Google Docs</a> gets rid of basically all of the nice formatting from Excel, not to mention the column sorting that Excel does.]</em></p><p>Um, so, yeah. Enjoy!</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Missing DC...</title>
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    <published>2011-01-30T06:24:13Z</published>
    <updated>2011-01-30T06:31:12Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[One sign that I am missing the District of Columbia would be other people's photographs of&nbsp;cherry blossoms and random buildings like the Jefferson Memorial. Oh, Flickr...The photo, of course, isn't mine. But it is nice....]]></summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>One sign that I am missing the District of Columbia would be other people's photographs of&nbsp;<a href="http://ngeru.info/feOaOG">cherry blossoms and random buildings like the Jefferson Memorial</a>. Oh, <a href="http://ngeru.info/feOaOG">Flickr</a>...</p><p><a href="http://ngeru.info/feOaOG"><img src="http://ngeru.info/fLVUEV" width="240" height="180" alt="This would be the photograph of both the abovementioned things in question, the Jefferson Memorial and some cherry blossoms." /></a></p><p style="font-size: 50% ;">The photo, of course, isn't mine. But it is nice.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>iBooks; Fact checking biographies of people sharing the first name Andrew</title>
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    <published>2010-07-13T01:34:56Z</published>
    <updated>2010-07-13T01:53:49Z</updated>

    <summary>Of interest in the last few weeks I noticed pretty much all of the books I scanned for PGDP have appeared in Apple&apos;s iBooks store. So far, of all of the major e-book booksellers I&apos;ve tried, they seem to be...</summary>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Of interest in the last few weeks I noticed pretty much all of the books I scanned for <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders">PGDP</abbr></a> have appeared in Apple's iBooks store. So far, of all of the major e-book booksellers I've tried, they seem to be the ones that implement the books in the best-formatted way.</p><p>Also, I have been putting off mentioning this for some years, so I'm sure someone else has mentioned this now. At <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/kids/presidents/ulyssesgrant.html">http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/kids/presidents/ulyssesgrant.html</a> on the <a href="http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/"><abbr title="United States National Archives and Records Administration">NARA</abbr> archive of the 43rd president's website</a>, President Grant is said to have been President Jackson's Secretary of War. That would have been quite an achievement, given he <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson#Presidency_1829.E2.80.931837">would have</a> been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulysses_Grant#Early_life_and_family">between the ages of six and fourteen</a>, and yet to enter West Point.</p><p>Of course what the students who wrote the quick biography meant was that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#Administration_and_Cabinet">he was Acting Secretary of War (give or take)</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson#Presidency_1865.E2.80.931869">a similarly-surnamed President Johnson</a> (they even shared the first name Andrew, adding to the confusion mix), but for some reason I found the minor (?) mildly amusing.</p><p style="font-size: 50%; ">(Yes, it's a coincidence my previous entry was about the White House.)</p><p>Finally, my next entry I'm currently researching very slowly, but it's a list inspired by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index">Big Mac Index</a>. I'm almost done with the raw data.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>The White House, rated 12+ for violence, drugs and alcohol</title>
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    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2010:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.165</id>

    <published>2010-01-29T03:01:35Z</published>
    <updated>2010-01-29T03:45:20Z</updated>

    <summary>So, apparently the White House&apos;s Apple App Store-listed app is rated 12+ (albeit in the United States version of the store) for the reason of &apos;Infrequent/Mild&apos; references to or use of &apos;Realistic Violence[,]... Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug[s]&apos;. Overall, I am...</summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>So, apparently <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-white-house/id350190807?mt=8">the White House's Apple App Store-listed app</a> is rated 12+ (albeit in the United States version of the store) for the reason of 'Infrequent/Mild' references to or use of 'Realistic Violence[,]... Alcohol, Tobacco or Drug[s]'. Overall, I am rather amused by this! I doubt, however, such a government institution would be encouraging illegal drug use or underage alcohol use.</p><p>Seriously, I would have thought that such ratings would be thrown out for clearly educational apps such as something from the White House, like with nature documentaries in some countries (otherwise said documentaries like <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/"><cite>Nature</cite></a> would basically be rated for sex scenes). Maybe I'm too sensitive, but I support the <abbr title="United States">US</abbr> Government -- the White House in particular -- for making the app, but not the rating they got, presumably from Apple, for their efforts. Anyway, the obligatory screenshots (the first of which is also <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/4312311441/">uploaded to Flickr</a> for some reason):</p><p><a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/images/2010-01-28%20itunes%20app%20store%20white%20house%20app%20listing.png"><img alt="So, here's the screen shot of the apparent, albeit possible madness." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/assets_c/2010/01/2010-01-28 itunes app store white house app listing-thumb-400x238.png" width="400" height="238" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></a>&nbsp;<img alt="And you're probably not bothered enough to zoom in on the screen shot, so this is the requisite bit." src="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/images/2010-01-28%20itunes%20app%20store%20white%20house%20app%20listing%20cropped%20section%20of%20screenshot.png" width="206" height="289" class="mt-image-none" style="" /></p><p style="font-size: 75%; ">(There's almost certainly other bizarre examples in the iTunes store, mind, but this one seems rather odd to me.)</p><p>And, in other news, I'm looking at getting the 1986 report of the Royal Commission on the Electoral System on <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders">PGDP</abbr></a> fairly soon, as I now apparently have the clearances lined up for that with their copyright people.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>And, up next, in the District of Columbia...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/12/and-up-next-in-the-district-of-columbia.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.164</id>

    <published>2009-12-19T23:18:38Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-19T23:41:38Z</updated>

    <summary>... It is, well, snowing, right now, still: It is, now that it is the early evening, far worse.In the meantime, I am still mesmerised by the Sirocco K&#257;k&#257;p&#333; incident:...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>... It is, well, snowing, right now, still:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/4198723530/" title="Or, earlier this morning, it was this bad." bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2783/4198723530_20859e52f2.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="Or, earlier this morning, it was this bad." /></a></p>

<p>It is, now that it is the early evening, far worse.</p><p>In the meantime, I am still mesmerised by the <a href="http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/birds/land-birds/kakapo/facts/sirocco/">Sirocco K&#257;k&#257;p&#333;</a> <a href="http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=9T1vfsHYiKY" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED">incident</a>:</p>

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<entry>
    <title>Wife Posting: The surprise of Unbound Limits in Vista; Breaking calculus models</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/08/wife-posting-the-suprise-of-unbound-limits-in-vista-breaking-calculus-models.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.163</id>

    <published>2009-08-21T03:25:35Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-21T03:37:57Z</updated>

    <summary><![CDATA[My original post: http://www.jessicalind.org/blog-posts/windowsvistacontinuestosuprise-unboundlimit at jessicalind.org&nbsp;(or the one where the spouse talks her way on to her husband's online diary slash journal slash blog thing)I have been suffering with my computer lately with my screen going black and then claiming...]]></summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jessicalind Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://jessicalind.org/</uri>
    </author>
    
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    <category term="vista" label="vista" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
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        <![CDATA[My original post: <a href="http://www.jessicalind.org/blog-posts/windowsvistacontinuestosuprise-unboundlimit">http://www.jessicalind.org/blog-posts/windowsvistacontinuestosuprise-unboundlimit</a> at <a href="http://jessicalind.org/">jessicalind.org</a>&nbsp;(or the one where the spouse talks her way on to her husband's online diary slash journal slash blog thing)<br /><br />I have been suffering with my computer lately with my screen going
black and then claiming that my drivers are having problems. My husband
says this is probably from something called "kernel panic". All I know
is that my C:/ drive had started to fill up rapidly. I take lots of
pictures so I thought it was my fault but it was starting to get
ridiculous. My C:/ drive went from about 100 GB to only having 2 GB
left at 287 GB. I tried to figure out what could possibly be wrong. I
had a feeling that it had a problem with the System Restore points but
I couldn't be sure. So we logged onto my computer's dos prompt and
found a startling issue: <br />
<br />
<div style="display: block; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.jessicalind.org/blog-posts/windowsvistacontinuestosuprise-unboundlimit/holycrapgigsoutthewazoo.JPG?attredirects=0" imageanchor="1"><img src="http://www.jessicalind.org/_/rsrc/1250824448851/blog-posts/windowsvistacontinuestosuprise-unboundlimit/holycrapgigsoutthewazoo.JPG" border="0" /></a></div>
<br />
I felt like Strong Bad in the virus episode on Homestarrunner.com,
"Holy Crap. That's a big number!" What this means for those who have no
idea what this is: Vista system restore had filled up my computer with
120 GB of restore points. I had heard on the internet about this
problem that Vista should naturally have a 15% of drive limit. My
computer had no such limit, thus being unbounded. It could have
potentially gone on and on if there was unlimited space. This makes me
think of my calculus courses where I could make a word problem about
this. I wonder though if I get the award for most storage space used up
by the system restore points.<br />
<br />
How could this have happened? Thank goodness I have IT knowledge and
knew to look for this but this was difficult to figure out what the
problem was and it was making my computer crash in kernel panic.&nbsp; <br />
<br />
I want to thank How to Geek for his recommendation for solving this problem at <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/reduce-system-restores-disk-usage-in-vista/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/reduce-system-restores-disk-usage-in-vista/</a> ]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Yeah, but it does not work properly when sending via mail clients...</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/07/yeah-but-it-does-not-work-properly-when-sending-via-mail-clients.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.162</id>

    <published>2009-08-01T02:19:59Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-01T02:32:47Z</updated>

    <summary>OK, so Gmail and Gmail-hosted domains can now send e-mail via an external SMTP server if it supports authenticated SMTP.There is just one very, very small detail someone missed out somewhere: this only seems to work with Gmail&apos;s webmail interface...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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    <category term="smtp" label="SMTP" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
    
    <content type="html" xml:lang="en-us" xml:base="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/">
        <![CDATA[<p>OK, so <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-mail-from-another-address-without.html">Gmail and Gmail-hosted domains can now send e-mail via an external <abbr title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">SMTP</abbr> server if it supports authenticated <abbr title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">SMTP</abbr></a>.</p><p>There is just one <em>very, very</em> small detail someone missed out <a href="http://googleappsupdates.blogspot.com/2009/07/send-emails-from-another-address.html">somewhere</a>: this only seems to work with Gmail's webmail interface (including their iPhone/iPod webmail interface), as far as I can tell so far. <span style="color: red; ">If one sends their Gmail or Gmail-hosted domain e-mail messages <strong>to</strong> Gmail via authenticated <abbr title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">SMTP</abbr>, Gmail does not then on-send it via that external <abbr title="Simple Mail Transfer Protocol">SMTP</abbr> server; the message is sent directly from Gmail.</span> That and the address in the <code>Sender:</code> header you were hoping to completely hide ends up in the <code>Return-Path:</code> header instead.</p><p>Oh well. It is a start, somewhat.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Google Street View, now in Miltonsburg, Ohio</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/06/google-street-view-now-in-miltonsburg-ohio.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.161</id>

    <published>2009-06-02T07:54:09Z</published>
    <updated>2009-06-02T08:25:44Z</updated>

    <summary>So, tonight I look back at the directions that I wrote to the venue for my wedding (the Catholic ceremony, that is, for those who must know), which included a Google Maps pointer for the church, naturally. To cut a...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>So, tonight I look back at the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/ttsyr">directions</a> that I wrote to the venue for my wedding (the Catholic ceremony, that is, for those who must know), which included <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/obtqq">a Google Maps pointer for the church</a>, naturally.</p>
<p>To cut a long story short, not only is the smallest incorporated place (population 29, that is) in Ohio now in Google Street View's coverage (all five or so streets and two intersections in the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/wzhwe">town limits</a>, albeit just an intersection view of side streets from the main road of the town), <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/kbctu">the said church can be seen</a>. And there's the <a href="http://go.greta.electric.gen.nz/nsoie">church hall across the road</a>, too.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>It&apos;s a massacre!</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2009/03/its-a-massacre.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2009:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.160</id>

    <published>2009-03-19T16:46:28Z</published>
    <updated>2009-03-19T17:19:22Z</updated>

    <summary>Time for some alarmist titles, methinks. Well, first some disappointing news from my university, then something possibly a bit happier. And after some more marital bliss-inspired absenses from tph, I wake up to discover that the 2009 papers catalogue for...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <category term="women&apos;s studies" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" />
    
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    <category term="life" label="life" scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#tag" />
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        <![CDATA[<p>Time for some alarmist titles, methinks. Well, first some disappointing news from my university, then something possibly a bit happier.</p>
<p>And after some more marital bliss-inspired absenses from <cite><abbr title="the power house">tph</abbr></cite>, I wake up to discover that the <a href="http://www.victoria.ac.nz/home/study/subjects/coursecatalogue.aspx?d=Gender+and+Women%27s+Studies&amp;l=all&amp;t=2009&amp;res=d">2009 papers catalogue for <acronym title="Gender &amp; Women's Studies">GEND</acronym></a> at the teachers' college/university that I graduated from (twice, even) is <a href="http://www.salient.org.nz/news/gender-and-women%e2%80%99s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool?s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool%2Fcomment-page-1">basically empty</a>. Really. Take a look. (Thanks, <a href="http://www.salient.org.nz/news/gender-and-women%e2%80%99s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool?s-studies-not-down-with-karori-kool%2Fcomment-page-1">Kerry</a>. She's a fellow <acronym title="Graduate Diploma in Arts">GradDipArts</acronym> graduate in <acronym title="Gender &amp; Women's Studies">GEND</acronym>.) Trying to finish the undergraduate major might be amusing, let alone an honours year or graduate diploma. Sigh.</p>
<p>And in far more cheerful (possibly) news, <a href="https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/visa-debit-card/">Kiwibank now have a Visa debit card</a> with prettier designs than <a href="http://www.westpac.co.nz/">Westpac New Zealand</a>'s <a href="http://www.westpac.co.nz/olcontent/olcontent.nsf/Content/Debitplus+Visa+Card?Opendocument&amp;refr=personal">offering</a> -- and, at first look, <a href="https://www.kiwibank.co.nz/personal-banking/rates-and-fees/product-specific-fees/visa-debit-card.asp">cheaper fees, too</a>, especially with regards to the foreign currency fee; 2% versus Westpac's 2.5% might well be worth it. Sigh. Again.</p>
<p>I wonder if I will qualify to receive a card...</p>
<p>Or even if it is worth it. I will have to think about it.</p></acronym>]]>
        
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</entry>

<entry>
    <title>A long queue in Ferguson Township</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/a-long-queue-in-ferguson-township.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.159</id>

    <published>2008-11-05T00:10:43Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-05T00:16:42Z</updated>

    <summary> I hear some other queues in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania&apos;s polling places are better, and much better at that. But walking past the same local precinct (that I was standing outside of earlier, waiting with my wife for...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[ <p>I hear some other queues in Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania's polling places are better, and much better at that. But walking past the same <a href="http://www.co.centre.pa.us/elections/polls.asp#poll_50">local precinct</a> (that <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/fun-at-the-local-election-precinct.html">I was standing outside of earlier</a>, waiting with my wife for her turn to vote), <a href="http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA+%28Centre+County:+Ferguson+Northeast+2+%5BPrecinct+50%5D+%E2%80%93+Mike%E2%80%99s+Video,+TV+%26+Appliance%29&sll=40.807199,-77.889311&sspn=0.00916,0.022745&g=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.807199,-77.889311&spn=0.00916,0.022745&z=16&iwloc=addr">Mike's Video, TV & Appliance</a>, shortly before (hence the bad photographic quality of the Motorola V325), I came across the following:</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3004108518/" title="Basically, I saw a queue that went in to a neighbouring bank's carpark."><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3141/3004108518_10562a0e77_m.jpg" alt="Basically, I saw a queue that went in to a neighbouring bank's carpark." height="180" width="240" /></a></p><p>But that was just a preview of the rest of the line:</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3003272253/" title="The queue then went around part of the polling place's carpark quite happily,"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3215/3003272253_cf5807a677_m.jpg" alt="The queue then went around part of the polling place's carpark quite happily," height="180" width="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3003272389/" title="and then past the front of the building"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/3003272389_e744c464fe_m.jpg" alt="then past the front of the building" height="180" width="240" /></a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/ahkitj/3004108554/" title="... where it finally went through a really narrow front door."><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3190/3004108554_d69cf08156_m.jpg" alt="... where it finally went through a really narrow front door." height="180" width="240" /></a></p><p>I write this at around 7.08, with a shade under an hour left. I passed by in a car just about 5 minutes ago, and the queue was about 5 metres shorter at that point.</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Fun at the local election precinct</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/11/fun-at-the-local-election-precinct.html" />
    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.158</id>

    <published>2008-11-04T13:52:39Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-04T14:03:03Z</updated>

    <summary>So I turn up at the local polling booth with my wife. Basically, she&apos;s previously been half an hour or so late and is usually the first (give or take) to vote. This year she was voter number 63 and...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
        <uri>http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/</uri>
    </author>
    
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        <![CDATA[<p>So I turn up at <a href="http://maps.google.co.nz/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA+%28Centre+County:+Ferguson+Northeast+2+%5BPrecinct+50%5D+%E2%80%93+Mike%E2%80%99s+Video,+TV+%26+Appliance%29&amp;sll=40.807199,-77.889311&amp;sspn=0.00916,0.022745&amp;g=1515+N+Atherton+St,+State+College,+PA+16803,+USA&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=40.807199,-77.889311&amp;spn=0.00916,0.022745&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr">the local polling booth</a> with my wife. Basically, she's previously been half an hour or so late and is usually the first (give or take) to vote. This year she was voter number 63 and we waited an hour.</p><p>While she was inside, I decided it was safer to wait outside and have fun (as much as can be had by a resident waiting for their citizen spouse to finish voting) watching the queue snake around the booth, while I sat there hoping the embassy will actually count my vote in the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/voted.html"><abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> elections</a> later this week.</p>]]>
        
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    <title>Another public inquiry report with a painfully long full title uploaded!</title>
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    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.157</id>

    <published>2008-10-29T08:11:12Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-29T08:34:09Z</updated>

    <summary>Or, the Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand; you might well find my original scans of this inquiry report (also known as the McMillan Report, after its chairperson,...</summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>Or, the <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27070"><cite>Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand</cite></a>; you might well find <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/gallery/v/1937-ajhr-03-h-31a-abortion/">my original scans</a> of this inquiry report (also known as the <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/section27/#abortion-1937">McMillan Report</a>, after its chairperson, a certain <a href="http://www.labour.org.nz/">Labour</a> politician called <a href="http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=4M25">David Gervan McMillan</a>) useful. I'll write some comments about it in the next fortnight.</p><p style="font-size: 67%;">(<em style="color: red;">Disclaimer:</em> And, in case anyone thinks otherwise, the release date of this title to <a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/"><abbr title="Project Gutenberg">PG</abbr></a> had nothing to do with the current <abbr title="New Zealand">NZ</abbr> general election; I can not and do not control these release dates in any way as I only submit the scans to be <a href="http://www.pgdp.net/">proofread</a> and I only keep a small sort of guidance on this process in terms of the quality of the proofed text while it is being proofread. Or so I think that is what I was told to do. Sorry.)</p>]]>
        
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<entry>
    <title>Voted</title>
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    <id>tag:www.ibiblio.org,2008:/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse//3.156</id>

    <published>2008-10-21T22:30:57Z</published>
    <updated>2008-10-21T22:46:51Z</updated>

    <summary>And the said overseas ballot papers (having become available this afternoon) are now about to make their way through the postal system to the embassy in DC. Thank goodness that is all over. For now. (And no, I&apos;m not going...</summary>
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        <name>Jonathan Ah Kit</name>
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        <![CDATA[<p>And the said <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/ahkitj/diaries/thepowerhouse/2008/10/uh-theres-an-election.html">overseas ballot papers</a> (having <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/voting/votingsub/how-vote-overseas.html">become available</a> this afternoon) are now about to make their way through the <a href="http://www.usps.gov/">postal system</a> to the <a href="http://www.elections.org.nz/files/E1-List_09102008.pdf">embassy in <abbr title="District of Columbia">DC</abbr></a>.</p>
<p>Thank goodness that is all over.</p>
<p>For now.</p>
<p style="FONT-SIZE: 67%">(And no, I'm not going to tell you whom I voted for.)</p>]]>
        
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