tank treads for pot.holes

11.25: gear/tank-based pothole negotiation:

. for pot holes use an attachment that is like tank treads:

like a ski foot used by a snowmobile for steering

except it's an inline skate (a series of skate wheels)

with a tread belt around them;

so when the skate catches the edge of a pothole,

that edge doesn't get lodged between wheels .

. the skate is mounted on the front wheels

in either of 2 positions:

. if there is snow, sand, etc to steer on,

then it's being pressed flat on the ground

to steer the way ski-mobile does .

. if there is pavement or rocks,

then its lifted and angled,

so as to act like the tank's treads .

solar roof

5.2: gear/solar/wind stored as wind:

. good use of wind uses windmills to compress air,

so then during low wind the compressed air can drive electric generators,

and during wind that is too high for e-gen's,

the power can be usefully diverted to compressing air .

. the current system is to heat water,

even if that's not needed .

. it could also solve the complaint that

wind supply is not always matching human consumption .

. another way is to put energy mostly into

driving processes that generate portable fuel

like methanol .

. it was noticed days ago however

that this is not a green way for the planet;

because there is literally not eno' platinum in the world

to make all the fuel cells

to meet all the needs of billions of people .

11.1: gear/hvac/solar/roof:

. it works like water heater but moves air instead of water:

under black tin it gets hot;

it can be 2-way valved either outside or inside the walls

and under the floor where it can also serve as

part of the radon removal system .

. fan powered by cheap mech-to-mech wind mills

(new efficient ones look like box kites) .

. on top of black 2nd roof

is clear roof for housing greens,

makes oxygen that can move without venting,

but may need that anyway

for humidity control to prevent mold .

flossmanuals.net

11.30: sci.addn/net.flossmanuals.net:

http://en.flossmanuals.net/NvU/IntroductionToStyles

blogger.com

mis.addn/net.g'blogger.com/html mode is not straight:

11.28:

. when I would use <...> in the text,

it would give it a special meaning,

so then I used an html editor to make the string

& l t ; ... & g t ;

and used blogger's html mode to insert it:

this resulted in yet another monstrosity !

. I then used the mac symbol picker to choose some unicode <> pairs

that were not ascii, but the same shape only in a bold font .

. so I pasted that html code using html mode,

and it's html mode was adding br.tags after every newline;

which of course was causing double spacing everywhere .

. so then I had to bring the code into a temp edit page,

and replace all the br.tags with blanks .

finally!

tech:

. interestingly I must have came across the same problem

without even crying about it -- or remembering it .

. my reaction that time was to replace the <...> with italics .

11.29:

. ironic, I forgot running into this problem,

and my first encounter was smarter than my 2nd!:

6.23/mis.addn/net.g'blog/importing html:

. the copy from seamonkey code to blog messed up, adding newlines,

try saving the page and then opening with firefox,

then copying the page normally (not by view-copying code)

and see if it saves the links and other html .

12.15: mis.addn/{net.g'blog, mac}/strange mac char's:

. when having trouble with brackets in g'blogger's editor:

http://amerdreamduh.blogspot.com/2009/11/getting-organized.html

I replaced them with a unicode that didn't turn out well later

atleast when viewed from a pc -- using either {chrome, seamonkey }.

. worse, I saved the page as the html I posted,

so, my local copy looks like a mess too! .

. I edited both by replacing the brackets with italics font,

or if they were something like <...> or <> then I used [/]x .

12.22: news.addn/net.google/The meaning of open:

Posted: 21 Dec 2009 03:17 PM PST

The Official Google Blog

date Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:08 AM

subject Official Google Blog

...

That's why we have a team

— the Data Liberation Front (dataliberation.org) —

http://www.dataliberation.org/

whose job it is to make "checking out" easy.

Recent examples of their work include Blogger

http://www.dataliberation.org/google/blogger

(people who choose to leave Blogger for another service

can easily take their content with them) .

12.28: web.addn/net.blogger.com/display angle brackets:
. yea! my problem at blogger.com has a solution I can find!
superuser.com/...how-to-display-angle-brackets-in-a-pre-in-wordpress
has this solution:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-syntax/other_notes/:
Example 4: If your code already has html entities escaped,

use escaped="true" as an option;

. surround your code with this:

<pre lang="xml" escaped="true">
</pre>

and replace left angle brackets with the usual html code & l t ;, etc .

WOT bookmarklet for Safari and Opera

11.3: news.addn/mac.safari/security/WOT bookmarklet for Safari and Opera:

. If you are using Safari or Opera, you can add the WOT bookmarklet

to your browser simply by dragging this link to your bookmarks.

Using the bookmarklet is simple:

click the bookmark and it will display a WOT popup on the page,

showing ratings for the current site. Another click will hide the popup.

This gives you an easy access to WOT reputation data,

although you won't be able to give your own ratings.

why is mac firewall off by default?

11.3: web.addn/mac/why mac firewall off by default?:

. wonder why the firewire was off?

the next article reminds me that I used to know

my router has a hardware-based firewall built-in,

and if there is any problems with the likes of skype,

just turn off the computer's firewall and leave that job to your router .

Damien Gallop 2003:

For even better security,

particularly at home on a broadband connection such as cable or DSL internet,

get a combo NAT gateway for yourself. Next to a VCR,

these little "black boxes" are the technology bargain of the decade.

Installing one between your home computer or network

and your broadband modem will give you a two-tiered level of firewalling.

configure it!:

We suggest that you select the Enable Stealth Mode check box.

It doesn't have many side-effects,

unless you want people to be able to perform stealth scans of your Mac.

arm vs atom

11.30: web.addn/dev/arm vs atom:

www.eetasia.com/ART_8800508852_499488_NT_1af778d6.HTM

Make no mistake: Atom is an important new architecture,

and it is likely to be a big success in many markets.

Atom can run PC games; ARM can't.

Just don't expect it to dethrone ARM

in the mobile market segment any time soon.

In most scenarios, Atom burns more power.

gateway syndrome

10.2: psy/gateway syndrome:

. when culture allows drug use,

then it could entail a sort of Peter principle

"(Employees Tends to be Promoted to their Level of Incompetence)

which in the case of drug experimentation

would be the situations where the drugs caused

something both negative and irreversable,

such as when accidents cause brain damage, depression ...

[10.4: or various autistic syndromes .]