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  • The Independent Progressive Party

    This is a clipping from the Rafu, and I think it’s around 1952, because it mentions the McCarran Walter Act, which passed in 1952. I recognized Art Takei’s name, because he was one of the founders of APALA, the API labor organization within the AFL-CIO. Fumi Ishihara, I didn’t recognize, but the internet is amazing,…

  • Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness

    I found this. I suspect it may have been tossed into the trash and retrieved. Upon reading it, I figured out that it was written by, or for, Tom Bradley. I’ve started looking for orgs that could take this kind of stuff. I’m also selling things, but some thing like this might have a bit…

  • 1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda

    I’m clearing out my father’s hoard, and sometimes you find something interesting. This was a denial of a zoning variance for a church. Given that my father collected a lot of stuff from work, and one of his interests was racial discrimination (because he faced it), I thought, maybe, this was an instance. It’s impossible…

  • Workstyles and Productivity

    Workstyles and Productivity

    Inspired by this HubSpot article: How do I like to send and receive information? Brief emails.  Verbal communication backed by brief emails. Verbal information alone doesn’t “stick”, but convey’s urgency or lack of ugency.

  • Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts

    I’m shocked at how many businesses still have websites that don’t work in mobile. For the average person, reading web pages on a smartphone is the primary way they read content on the web. Though I’m not 100% on board with “mobile first”, it should soon be the norm. To CSS hackers, “mobile first” just…

  • Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar

    This article was originally written in 2013, and is basically obsolete. The email landscape is basically Google Workspace, Office 365, the Mac OS Mail and Calendar app, and everyone else. I’m using Proton Mail and Proton Calendar. I’m still having issues with getting things into the calendar. It’s kind of absurd. This was an effort…

  • w32tm reports the computer did not resync because no time data was available

    I got the message “the computer did not resync because no time data was available” after running “w32tm /resync /force”. I had followed the various howtos out there*, and checked them against each other : as expected, they differed slightly, but none of them worked for me. Well, it turned out that I needed to…

  • Debian and Ubuntu Networking Configuration /etc/network/interfaces with a Static IP Address

    This is easy to find anywhere, and it’s here too. This one includes the dns-* lines that will be read by resolvconf(8). root@server:/etc/network# cat interfaces # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5). # The loopback network interface auto lo iface…

  • MS Access: VBA CRC32 Function

    Here’s a CRC32 function based on the work at: cCRC32. The main difference is that this is a function, and the crc32 table is not recalculated each time. If there’s a way to do constant arrays, I’d like to know. I haven’t found anything online.

  • Make Meme/LOLCats Text with the GIMP

    This tutorial explains how to make the “LOLCats” or “Meme” font so popular with the kids today. You can see a lot of these on the 4Chan /b/ channel, but don’t go there if you have any illusions that our society isn’t full of degenerates. The meme font is Impact Condensed, but to get the…