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Saugatuck Dune Ride 10 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Us at the top of one of the higher dunes at the midpoint of the Saugatuck Dune Rides tour. The dune ride was a lot of fun, if your in the area put it on your list. Kids had a blast too. You can see La...
Saugatuck Brewing Sampler 10 Aug 2013 | 01:18 am
More opportunities to try local beers at Saugatuck Brewing. I picked a bunch of hoppy brews. The serving method was a little odd, if you had a table with 4 of these it would be a bit unwieldy. Overall...
New Holland Brewing Sampler 10 Aug 2013 | 01:05 am
While in Saugatuck we went to Holland a couple of times, it’s just 10 miles or so up the road. We had dinner at New Holland Brewing and I got to do another beer flight. I skipped the Dragon’s Milk sin...
Saugatuck Beaches 9 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
I had no idea that there were beaches like this in Michigan! We’ve been having a great time in the Saugatuck area, and nearly every day we’ve had some relaxing and fun time in the sand and water as we...
Password v. Passphrase 31 Jul 2013 | 06:58 am
Today’s xkcd highlights what might be one of the biggest security mistakes of our digital age: using passwords over passphrases. The comic does a great job of illustrating it. I’ve mentioned before th...
Paging Large Datasets in Semantic MediaWiki 31 Jul 2013 | 01:27 am
I’ve been working with Yaron Koren‘s new Miga project to provide an offline, mobile optimized way of accessing the nutrition data in Wikinosh. It works pretty well! However, we hit a couple of walls t...
Don’t Ruin the Past with Reality 24 Jul 2013 | 08:38 pm
I really enjoyed this article and photo for The 40-Year-Old Photo That Gives Us A Reason To Smile. Great story behind the photo, and it’s a wonderful photo itself of these five kids just smiling and b...
Goodbye to my friend, John Riedl 22 Jul 2013 | 06:37 am
John in Sept. 2010. Three years ago my friend, mentor and former professor John Riedl shared the news with our book club that he had been diagnosed with cancer. Melanoma. He spent the last three year...
Pictures from 2013 US Nationals Kubb Championship 21 Jul 2013 | 11:57 pm
I didn’t get much time to take photos at the 2013 US Nationals Kubb Championship. Saturday was a day focused my team the Kubbchucks progressing through the bracket, and hoping that our club, Minnesota...
Stopping MediaWiki Spam with Dynamic Questy Captchas 9 Jul 2013 | 11:17 pm
MediaWiki websites are often plagued by spammers. It’s annoying in the extreme. If you setup a blank MediaWiki website and do nothing it is likely that within a couple of weeks your site will be found...
