Posted in Insect, Photography by: QuePID
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30 May
I went out on the porch and noticed this rather large moth sticking at the base of my living room window. I had my wife come out and take photos of it. It is a large (3.5″) female Io moth (Automeris io) of the Saturniidae family of moths.
Posted in Books, News by: QuePID
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30 May
I just finished the first two books by Jacqueline Carey in the Kushiel’s Legacy series, they are incredible. Such richness of characters and such a vivid world. This brilliant and daring debut, set in a skewed Renaissance world (people worship Jesus-like “Blessed Elua” but also demigods), catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy [...]
Posted in News, Technology by: QuePID
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10 May
I have known about software that allows you to turn a gmail account into a file server for quite some time, but never got around to trying it out…until tonight that is. I decided to try setting it up, expecting it to be complex with big cumbersome drivers. Turns out the software is 150kb (http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm). [...]
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10 May
I decided to try my hand at running a PVPGN server for me and my wife who love to play Diablo 2 (Lord of Destruction) on Battle.NET. So I decided to give it a go at trying to run my own Battle.NET like servers and found a free bit of software that does just that. [...]