ITHCWY voter guide to the 2021 gubernatorial recall. Keep Gavin!
Improving my storage habits with folder insights.
Time lapse of stars over Redding, California.
Adventures growing crystals from a National Geographic kit.
A small WebCamSaver update.
Hikes - around the perimeter road of Angel Island, Teague Hill Preserve, and Echo Lake in Lassen.
ITHCWY interviews every coronavirus expert.
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Catfood Earth has been missing a detailed guide since I shut down the Catfood Software web site. That has been fixed with this somewhat epic post which covers every feature of the Windows and Android versions.
Two new timelapses: stars over Columbia State Historic Park and another sunset. I also started working on a longer term project, it will be a few weeks until I get to see if it's going to work.
Hike posts have been upgraded with route maps and a chart showing elevation profile.
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Timelapse of three trains of Starlink satellites. It's getting crowded up there. Another timelapse of the super flower blood moon eclipse which wasn't Musk's fault.
The Guardian's long read on free will is a disaster, but possibly not their fault. Also my tips on doing news right.
Photos from Marshall's Beach in San Francisco. And some fog. And sand.
Lastly, a nice hike near the Carquinez Strait.
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Some changes to the ITHCWY coronavirus visualization page.
For reasons that I'm struggling to understand California's cap and trade system adds a discount to my energy bill.
Catfood WebCamSaver 3.24 released.
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Spring Equinox 2020 in Catfood Earth
On productivity: Out of Office Hours and why I still love email.
Some Great Horned Owlets.
San Francisco tides animated over the course of one year.
A deep faked me. Just needs hooking up to Teams...
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It's been a while since I put out a newsletter after a fairly quiet end to last year. Here are some recent highlights.
How to Save a Planet (with an Infiniti QX55)
Lock up the Flexible Spending Account Administrators
Software: Catfood Earth 4.10 updates to the latest National Weather Service "API" and also 2021a timezones. Photo Sorter 1.10 helps control the scourge of duplicate JPEGs.
Timelapse: Sunset #6, what would happen if you used a style transfer neural network on every frame of a timelapse? This (instructions).
Hikes: Abrigo Valley, Grabtown Gulch and Mariposa Loop.
I'm not sure why during the pandemic I've used way more electricity but the same amount of gas.
Some thoughts on the results of the election, written before the Capitol riot.
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Endorsements: Biden, California Propositions, San Francisco Ballot Measures.
What is up with Android 11?
Hikes: Coastal/Julian loop in the Marin Headlands, Richards Fire Loop in San Mateo (with Hyperlapse!), the end of coronavirus (hikes).
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July has been very nature focused for me: rattlesnake, whale, ospreys, bald eagle and comet NEOWISE. Hikes include Bumpass Hell and the Devils Kitchen at Lassen Volcanic National Park.
I did fit in a whinge about Android usability.
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Coronavirus by country and US state/county - this post updates two videos daily that show increases in cases and deaths by day. Also more very local hikes.
I can't tell if Microsoft wants me to use Edge.
More ISS.
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4K video of an International Space Station lunar transit on May 7.
Coronavirus hikes.
Timelapse of stars over San Francisco.
Catfood Software updates: Earth 4.01 and WebCamSaver 3.21.
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Sending email via GMail in C#/.NET using SmtpClient
Export Google Fit Daily Steps, Weight and Distance to a Google Sheet
Is it safe to open securedoc.html (Cisco Registered Envelope)?
Enable GZIP compression for Amazon S3 hosted website in CloudFront
Accessing Printer Press ESC to cancel
Full Outlook Web Access on Chromebook
Automate Google PageSpeed Insights and Core Web Vitals Logging with Apps Script
Scanning from the ADF using WIA in C#
Reading and Writing Office 365 Excel from a Console app using the Microsoft.Graph C# Client API