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RRUL Charts-90% down/95%up

24 February 20146 May 2016 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

90% down, 95% up (6473/777 kbps) on ge00.

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Software

Python libraries: requests and multithreading.dummy

18 February 201418 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Today was a two-fer: I found two interesting techniques for working with Python. I needed to test a web server, and wanted to send concurrent HTTP get requests. (The problem …

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Life

Rink Rat – A Great Essay on Hockey (not for the kids)

13 February 201414 March 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

While chatting with people who play hockey just for the pure fun of it, especially those who are no longer whippersnappers, I am amazed that hardly anyone knows about this …

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Life / Software

Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge

20 January 20141 May 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I was a member of the team that won the “Most Likely to Succeed” award at the MedStart Hackathon at Tufts Medical School (http://tuftsmedstart.com/) Our four-member team (Bryan Bordeaux, Michelle …

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Software

Digital Analytics Fundamentals from Google

30 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I just finished Google’s “Digital Analytics Fundamentals” course at https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/course. I did OK, too 🙂 The course talks about using Google Analytics to show the performance of your website. The course …

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Networking

Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – (No) Trouble with 5 GHz Wifi

24 October 201314 March 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Update: Good news! I am now able to get onto the 5GHz SSIDs. What changed? I rebooted my router, and it now seems OK. So I may have cried Wolf …

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Software

Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – Really long install times

24 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

Mac OS X 10.9 came out on Tuesday, and I decided to take the plunge and move my 2.3 GHz MacBook Pro to Mavericks. The price (free) is right and …

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Software

Switching to WordPress 3.7 beta 2

17 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I decided to take the plunge and switch from WordPress 3.6.1 to the 3.7 beta 2 version. There’s a plugin that is supposed to make this easy – WordPress Beta Tester …

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Software

Horsing around with Ghost blogging platform

17 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I had some fun checking out the brand new Ghost blogging platform. Its claims to fame are: It’s a blogging platform that is easy to install and setup It can be …

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Life

“Hang on a minute…”

8 October 201318 February 2014 - by Rich Brown - Leave a Comment

I just ended a call from a telemarketer who was pitching some vacation deal. I just don’t do these things over the phone, so when she paused to take another …

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