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Timeline – (1999 book), by Michael Crichton

2017-12-14
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Timeline - (1999 book) cover

Entertainment > Reading >

(on Wikipedia)

Archaeologists discover the site they’re working on is surrounded by land owned by their funder, a rich technology company, which is even more interested in it than they.

A riveting book that escalates into a great pace by its middle, and had me turning pages until I finished that latter half in one afternoon. The end chapter is an embarrassingly-bad wrap-up though, which was saddening, but it did not ruin the story.

Highly-recommended. This book has turned me back into a reader.



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Vivaldi

2017-11-23
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Software > Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://vivaldi.com/

Based on Chrome‘s open-source components (Chromium), but with real-browser functionality added.

Spectacular. It has all the pieces missing from Chrome. I’d strongly consider switching to it from Pale Moon if it had proper ScrapBook X support.



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WP-SpamShield

2017-11-12
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Security > Software >
WordPress > WordPress Plugins >

(removed from WordPress’ plugins list, see below)
www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield-anti-spam/ (dead) [ 1 ] was www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/ (not archived)

A spam protector that replaces Askismet.

  • Abandoned — Dead, and the developers were dogpiled into closing, but the code still works.



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^ 1 was www.redsandmarketing.com/plugins/wp-spamshield/ (not archived)

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Timeline – (2003 movie)

2017-11-02
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Timeline - (2003 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300556/
was timelinemovie.com

to be re-watched



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Babun

2017-10-25
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I darken its background colour
I darken its background colour

Software >

Chocolatey: babun
https://babun.github.io/

A customized Cygwin for Linux on Windows: Zsh, Bash, Git and other Linux software, all pre-configured.

Can install other software provided by Cygwin.

  • 712, 774 – apparently abandoned, last updated 2016-05-02.

    • The main contributors are still alive, I see them posting on their Twitters.
    • I’ll likely move to pure Cygwin, and get my common applications installed. That should be easy, but who the hell knows with Linux.

My configuration specific to Babun is currently scattered throughout my git repository, just findinall Babun (using my findinall() )



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