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I first read about these kinds of devices in John Alexander's 1999 book Future War (Non-Lethal Weapons In Twenty-First-Century Warfare). Anyone interested in this kind of stuff should definitely pickup this book. HERFs, or high energy radio frequency weapons (particularly microwaves), will become the weapon of choice for many global guerrilla operations (see Homemade Microwave […]

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Further update to Bloglines New Look, Mark Fletcher and company at BlogLines have already re-instated the font preferences.

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Just fired up Bloglines and all of a sudden I'm hit with a new look and feel. Not sure I like it but maybe it is just a matter of getting used to it. Bloglines has always continuously added useful features but it looks like with this one someone came in and said this looks […]

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Its approximately 16 years later and I still can't forward my own phone from remote. Lets go back into the past those many years ago when I worked for Bell Northern Research (BNR). For those of you unfamiliar with the company BNR, they were the research arm of Northern Telecom (Northern Electric before that). Northern […]

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Mark Fletcher of Bloglines has an offer for weblogs.com folks: Apparently several thousand blogs hosted at weblogs.com are now off the air (see this for more information). Bloglines archives all blog entries that we crawl (over 70 million at last count). If you have one of the affected blogs, and your blog was crawled by […]

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I had to read this review when I saw the title. As expected the review (reposted below) by Justin Lloyd is not very favourable. This paragraph In chapter 10, Rutledge demonstrates the use of sockets by creating a persistent server and dedicated client that he later develops this into what he terms a “massively multiplayer […]

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Welcome everyone to the new home for Technomagician's Weblog provided by KosmoBlogs (not officially available yet). The old blog will remain in place probably forever and may make its way over here when/if I ever get around to importing it. The new feed for this blog is here (or click syndicate at the top right). One […]

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