Update 2015-08-18: Boy do I feel silly! It turns out there’s a much simpler and much more robust way of doing what I’ve done with the scripts below. It turns out that, using any revision control system (eg. cvs, git, svn) that stores revisions as deltas (and most if not all do), all you need…
Author: Shovas
Far Cry 4
Update 2016-04-23: If you’re looking for your Far Cry 4 fix after Far Cry 4 Enhanced stopped working with version 1.10 then you’re in luck! Far Cry 4 Open World Mod, as far as I can tell, has almost everything good about Enhanced except increased difficulty. I really, really wish it did have that but…
How to Track Your Workout at the Gym as an Absolute Beginner
I started working out this spring for the first time at my local Good Life and one of the first things I knew I wanted to do was to know when I could ramp up my sets and reps. I’m a big user of the Apple iPhone Reminders app so I figured I’d put it…
Silver Chair
Silver Chair, how I hate you! You’re always there, lurking, at the end of every good thing! (Stealing away every pleasure!) Silver Chair, how I hate your lies! You tell me all this wasn’t, while all the while I know it was! It was! (You took it away!) Temptation, come my way! Lured and trapped,…
Duplicity – Pleasure and Simplicity in Your Backups
Update 2016-02-13: I’m now making use of Duplicity’s “–full-if-older-than” backup option and the “remove-all-but-n-full” clean up mode to keep a moving window of 3 months of backups. This way your backups don’t keep growing and growing. I’ve updated the examples in below. Duplicity – Pleasure and Simplicity in Your Backups If you’re like me, you’ve…
SimXperience AccuForce Pro Steering System
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My Recommended WordPress Themes and Plugins
After having used WordPress for a number of years, I’ve really started to get into more plugins that help me present and share my content the way I want. I’ve also gone through some themes and picked one I like, including versions for desktop and mobile. Here’s my recommendations for WordPress themes and plugins… Themes…
The Ultimate American Roadtrip
I’ll be honest, I’m linking this article just so I can remember for the next time I have enough money to do something crazy like this. The article is How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks and it manages to hit every continental US state and nearly every major landmark you’d want…
How to Help ISIS Persecuted Christians #Charity365
The latest atrocities by the Muslim group, ISIS, includes a video of the shooting or beheading deaths of thirty Ethiopian Christians. In previous posts, Charity 360 and Charity 365, I laid out my experience in charitable giving. In the latter post I talked about expanding to include more global and humanitarian groups. If you don’t…
Jewish Passover and Good Friday
Jewish Passover falls on Good Friday this year. Passover remembers the Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt during which God told the people to kill a “lamb without blemish” and paint their doorposts with the blood… God said “when I see the blood, I will pass over you and no plague will befall you…