The easiest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
-- Nietzsche
So last night I copied my 8GB Truecrypt backup volume off of my external drive into my Copy.com sync folder, and let it start syncing. Overnight I got another 10GB bonus space from referrals, up to 30GB now. The sync is Sssssslow-y slow S L O W, probably mostly because I decided to do this over wireless instead of pulling an ethernet cable out of my box of networking odds and ends. It ran overnight, and all day today. I should have taken note of the start time, I'm guessing it was around 10PM, so now after...
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"Cloud storage" services have been around for years. I've been uniformly unimpressed until now, due to space limitations of free accounts and exorbitant pricing for useful amounts of space. Most recently I had some space on Dropbox, but 2GB base and half-GB bonuses for referrals was not quite a useful size, so it went unused.
Enter: copy.com by Barracuda. Base size is 15GB, which is already ample, and then they add 5GB for signing up via referral link and verifying your email address. This is plenty suf...
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Split a medium pizza from Nick's with April for lunch. Made smoothie #3 in the new blender when I got home. Ice cold smoothie was a very welcome treat, what with no A/C in the car and the house being as warm as you'd expect with A/C off while I was out all day.
Several weeks ago I bought a couple each of La Fins and Éphémères to share, but the anticipated hanging-out never came about, so I picked them off over the past few days. From a side-by-side taste comparison, Éphémère is quite tasty, but La...
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Date in U.S. Imperial format mm-dd-yyyy:
d = new Date(yyyy, mm, dd);
d =
y = d.getFullYear();
y =
inp = document.getElementById("inp"); //string "12-12-2001"
function jDOB(){
var dtInp = inp.value.split("-");
var rDt = {
month : dtInp[0]-1,
day : dtInp[1],
year : dtInp[2]
};
var d = new Date(rDt.year, rDt.month, rDt.day);
document.getElementById("output1a").innerHTML = d;
document.getElementById("output1b").innerHTML = d.getFullYear();
}
inp.onkeyup = fun...
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