Book reviews for July 2015
The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross
4/5
4/5
It's a well known fact that whenever you go on holiday your home town experiences once-in-a-generation levels of good weather while you sit inside with increasingly insane children watching unseasonably torrential rain.
As this is a universal experience it has to be more than bad luck.
Every time anyone takes a vacation a parallel universe must be created where the traveler inflicts stormy weather on one branch and summer continues as normal on the other.
Tags: random, quantum, weather
Probably not.
I tore into Hulu last year for the miserable user experience, dreary ads and vanishing content.
Back then I estimated that Hulu could ditch the ads for another $6 a month. TechCrunch is reporting today (via the Wall Street Journal) that Hulu is considering an ad free tier for $12-$14 a month. $14 would be a $6 bump over current pricing. If they can fix the UX as well I'll be back in. And I still want my OTT TiVo.
Spacecraft data boosts Pluto's size
I think that makes it a planet again...
Pinnacles is the newest National Park which features various hikes to Talus Caves (formed by rockfalls into a valley) which are fun to scramble through as long as you don't think about the formation process while you do it.
Hike starts at 36.4943003, -121.173081 (Google Earth).
2/5
Summer starts right now in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter in the southern. Rendered in Catfood Earth with the timezone layer (Windows, Android).
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web
Finally! Maybe, in a few years...
Feel like making London the first National Park City this weekend? If so you're in good company.
Visualizing Coronavirus Cases and Deaths by Country and US County
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Sending email via GMail in C#/.NET using SmtpClient
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?
Full Outlook Web Access on Chromebook
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
Automate Google PageSpeed Insights with Apps Script
Reading and Writing Office 365 Excel from a Console app using the Microsoft.Graph C# Client API