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Quick cartoon

A couple of weeks back, we went to the Pasta in the Park gala evening for TESSA, a charity that provides help for victims of domestic and sexual abuse here in Colorado Springs. Taste testing of pasta sauces by sponsors, silent auctions, raise the paddle auctions, drinking, eating, and supporting a great cause. […]

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Implementing Takuzu (part three)

After part one (generating the board) and part two (hooking up some basic mouse handlers), it’s time to refine the interactions. Specifically last time I noted that, as written, it was possible to change the preset 0s and 1s of the initial game, and it was all too simple to select the 0s and 1s as we navigate around the board. Let’s fix those issues right now. […]

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Implementing Takuzu (part two)

In part one of this series, I coded up a basic 8×8 Tazuku board as a web page and populated it with an initial game. Time now to make the board interactive: I want to allow the user to alter cells with their guesses (or rather, “logically deduced answers”). […]

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Implementing Takuzu (part one)

When I described my newfound fondness for Takuzu, or the binary puzzle, I had in mind writing some code to implement it as a playable game. Because I’m into JavaScript these days, I decided to attack the project as a web page. […]

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Using Data Replicator 3 on a Synology DS212 – don’t

As mentioned in this post, I bought a Synology DS212 NAS for our home network, especially as our Acer WHS had a minor hiccup from overheating during the Waldo Canyon fire (we had to keep the windows shut from the smoke on some of the hottest days of the year). […]

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QoS in the router and Gotomeeting

As I mentioned in my last post I’ve bought a new router for home, installed Tomato on it, and, in itsy-bitsy writing at the end, noted that I’d turned on Quality of Service (QoS) on the router. All was good. […]

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Updating our home network router

There were several cascading events in the run up to buying a new router: […]

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Photographing art behind glass

A couple of weekends ago, prompted by the Waldo Canyon fire, we catalogued and photographed all the maps, art, and photographs we have hanging on our walls. Just in case there’s another disaster when, somehow, we’re not quite as lucky as we were with the fire, and have to claim for them all from the insurance. […]

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Hello, Dell XPS 15z, Part Deux

Just under a year ago I purchased a Dell XPS 15z to replace my 13-inch MacBook Pro. Since then, I’ve used the machine as my main workhorse PC, retiring my UDR desktop completely. […]

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Takuzu, or the Binary Puzzle

When we were in Paris in April (yes, April in Paris!), I read Le Figaro every day to catch up on the election news (Sarkozy vs. Hollande vs. Le Pen) and to help try improve my French comprehension. While the latter was fairly successful, I was diverted by the puzzles page. Not only was there a Sudoku puzzle, but there was another puzzle I hadn’t seen before called Takuzu. […]

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