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Pages in Blogs

Published on 19 Oct 2007 at 1:48 am. No Comments.
Filed under General, Internet, Note to Self, Quotations, Solutions.

Today I just discovered that blogs can have pages.  These pages can be edited and maintained, but stand outside of the time-based thread.
I have started entering some of my favorite quotations.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/favorite-quotations/
I am not sure how to organize them, but we’ll see…
Enjoy,
Kevin Knuth

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Frequent Flyer Programs / Partners

Published on 7 Oct 2007 at 1:33 am. No Comments.
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Today I was planning my air travel to the Facets of Entropy workshop in Copenhagen, and found that I will be flying on SAS.  I wanted to get some frequent flyer miles for this trip, but couldn’t figure out who SAS’s frequent flyer partners were.  After some searching, I found this website:
 http://frequent-flyer.1keyreach.com/
They have information on the […]

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Tutorial: Isolating Objects in Photoshop

Published on 24 Jul 2007 at 10:19 am. No Comments.
Filed under Note to Self, Photography, Solutions.

Note to Self: In the Shutterstock Discussion Forum, there is a tutorial on Isolating Objects in Photoshop.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3711

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NASA Vision Workbench

Published on 22 Apr 2007 at 10:37 pm. No Comments.
Filed under Computation, Intelligent Systems, Note to Self, Research, Robotics, Software.

The NASA Vision Workbench (VW) is a general purpose image processing and computer vision library developed by Matt Hancher and colleagues from the Autonomous Systems and Robotics (ASR) Area in the Intelligent Systems Division at the NASA Ames Research Center.  The VW website has all the necessary installation information as well as the documentation titled […]

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Real-Time Satellite Tracking

Published on 10 Apr 2007 at 12:31 am. No Comments.
Filed under Astronomy, Exploration, Fun, Note to Self, Space.

J-Track is an excellent NASA site that allows you to track satellites in real-time including the International Space Station, the Space Shuttle, and the Hubble Space Telescope. This site links to J-Pass, which tells you when an object will pass over your location so you can plan a viewing.  These sites require that you run […]

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