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Blog, page 52

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Continuing through the writing archive.

Tips · 1 min

PHP email template

A tiny PHP pattern for loading an email body from a template file and substituting variables before sending.

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Media · 1 min

Bill C-61 AKA Canadian DMCA - Crisis Fatigue

Bill C-61, Canada's DMCA, is back in parliament and people are tired of fighting it.

#Canada#Journal
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Dice · 1 min

Simplified Craps

Rules for Simplified Craps, a two-dice street version of craps with a 2.8% house edge.

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Junk · 1 min

Autonomous Quadrotor

Embedded video of an autonomous quadrotor flying without a pilot.

#Video#Robots
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Tips · 1 min

What are mysql-bin.000001, mysql-bin.000002...

What the mysql-bin.000001 files in your MySQL data directory are for, and how to safely disable and delete them.

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Dice · 2 min

Shut the Box

Shut the Box is an old French sailor dice game where players close numbered tiles 1 through 9 using two dice.

#Paper#Ideas#Tutorial
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Dice · 1 min

Ship

Ship is a five-dice game where players must roll 6, 5, and 4 in order before counting the remaining dice as crew points.

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Games · 1 min

Instructions on how to fix your computer, install windows applications on your mac, Hack someones Facebook, and make a million dollars from a World of warcraft clone.

A joke set of universal tech instructions involving a metal fork and your own face.

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Dice · 1 min

Sevens Out

Sevens Out is a two-dice game where players keep rolling and adding until they roll a seven, then pass the dice.

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Dice · 1 min

Sevens

Sevens is a six-dice game where pairs adding to seven are discarded and the rest of the dice count for your score.

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