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There has been purslane at the farmers market recently. Purslane is in the same family as Miner’s lettuce – the Portulacaceae family which is also called the purslane family. There is purslane that grows wild all over San Francisco in the cracks of the streets. If you are bicycling along and look down at a…

After uninstalling earlier versions and installing the latest version of Photoshop on Windows 7 there is no longer a filetype association for Photoshop. For example, if one wants to open a .jpg file with Photoshop normally Photoshop would be listed in the “Open with…” menu. Photoshop does not appear in the “Open with…” list of…

Too bad there’s not a legend with this image so we can know exactly how deep each of these regions are, and how steep the dropoff is at the edge of the coastal shelf. It is hard to find images like this which show the topographic features of not just the land but also the…

It is possible to run S Voice which is the Samsung equivalent of Siri for iPhones, on a Galaxy Tab 10.1.  S Voice, like Siri, is an app that takes voice commands and does various things.  I would not rate it as a robust app (on the Galaxy Tab) but at least its available if…

Today was the 20th anniversary ride of Critical Mass in San Francisco. The amount of bicycles was simply astounding. At Market and Church as one looked back east down Market St. towards the Embarcadero it was a sea of flashing white bicycle lights unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. I wonder if it set a…

What: Chocomatcha is this amazing drink: a mixture of pure cocoa powder and matcha green tea powder.  For my chocomatcha I like to use organic unsweetened almond milk and no sweetners or other additives. Why: Chocomatcha is a very refreshing drink which undoubtedly is beneficial to drink.  The benefits of chocolate – particularly pure, unsweetened…

I just read an article entitled Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math. Mr. McKibben’s article discusses some aspects of global warming that are important to discuss. It goes into detail about how that amount of remaining fossil fuel reserves in the Earth are already reasonably well known, who controls them, and what the grave consequences are…

[Note: this post was originally published on 14 December 2009, hence the date in the title. I have put this post back at the top of the blog because I still feel strongly about this issue. Our calendar should begin at least as far back as 4236 B.C. and there are reasons why it could…

Previously here I posted information on how to root a Verizon Galaxy Tab 10.1 SCH-I905. The original release came with Android 3.1 Gingerbread on it. Verizon have just released an update to v.4 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich). The actual Over-the-Air (OTA) ICS update from Verizon was not able to install on my device because of…

http://droidbasement.com/galaxy/roms/ This is the parent directory where CyanogenMod roms for various Galaxy Tab models are kept. The SCH-I905 (Verizon Galaxy Tab 10.1) is listed as p4vzw. The ClockworkMod (CWM) ROM will be listed as recovery.tar.md5 Under cm10 I found a cwm v.6.0.1.1