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You should completely drain your battery once a month

You should completely drain your battery once a month

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“For proper maintenance of a lithium-based battery, it’s important to keep the electrons in it moving occasionally. Be sure to go through at least one charge cycle per month (charging the battery to 100% and then completely running it down).”

“Apple does not recommend leaving your portable plugged in all the time.” It adds that, if you don’t drain and recharge your Mac laptop in the course of normal usage, “Apple recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month.”

Of course, many iPhone users find that it’s easy to completely run the battery down…

WordPress Notes

WordPress Notes

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Recommended settings:

Settings…Media… Uncheck Organize my uploads into month- and year-based folders.

Always obfuscate email addresses.  Create images of the address or use javascript email obfuscator

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Recommended Plugins
Members highly recommended for collaboration.
AWPCP for Classified Ads
iFrame. WordPress doesn’t allow iFrames for security reasons.  This plugin supports iFrames which are necessary for embedding things such as a Google Form or PayPal buttons.
NextGen Gallary for simple photo management.  Can be used to rotate through images.  I use it to highlight VIP sponsors.

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Control-Click conflict in VMWare Fusion and Windows

Control-Click conflict in VMWare Fusion and Windows

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I finally figured out how to get to do mulitple selections in lists on Windows when running in a VMWare virtual machine under Windows (VMWare Fusion). The Mac does not allow you to remap this sequence but under VMWare Fusion…Preferences…Keyboard & Mouse…Mouse Shortcuts I can turn off the Secondary Button Mouse Shortcut and it will allow Control – Primary Button to do it’s normal thing in Windows.

Windows Explorer Preview Font

Windows Explorer Preview Font

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Windows Explorer in Windows 7 has a Preview mode that will attempt to display the contents in a right pane of the currently selected file. It uses the current font size of the Notepad program. To turn on file preview you select the icon in the toolbar area just to the left of the Help icon. It is a small square divided into 3 rectangles.

Kristen’s 10u All-star season

Kristen’s 10u All-star season

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Kristen wrapped up her baseball All Star season with a triple and double (:23) in their only win in the double elimination tournament.  They only won 1 of 9 pool-play games which served to seed teams for the season ending tournament. The LT Rookie Cavs had to play the #1 seed being the #8 seed.  The only game they won during pool play was against the only team that the #1 seed lost to during pool play! The Cavs only lost 4-6 to the #1 seed who ended up winning the tournament.  The tournament was held at the beautiful Round Rock Youth fields near the Dell Diamond
Link to playlist of Kristen’s all All-Star game highlights.

High CPU Utilization and Threads

High CPU Utilization and Threads

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If you implement an infinite loop in a thread you may see 50% to 100% CPU utilization. This is because even though your thread may not be doing anything waiting for some event, you are still getting CPU slices unless you make a call to give up the CPU. This is easily done by calling a sleep function such as Thread.Sleep(5000) // milliseconds

David vs JR

David vs JR

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This is a video I made from a 1 on 1 XBOX Halo 3 cage match between David and a friend.  I had recently watched the movie Inside Man with Clive Owen where the song Chaiyya Chaiyya was featured.  I liked the song and knew I’d find a video to use it in.

Kristen’s Breakout game. No turning back now.

Kristen’s Breakout game. No turning back now.

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Kristen shoots 63% to score 30 of her team’s 38 points.  For the first time she drives to the basket, and sinks several shots from the outside. This was her first time playing organized basketball. Every team had 1 or 2 HotShot players.  She did not make the HotShots team.