May 2012
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Statistics point to fraud in Russian elections →
How much evidence do we need before we -the people- won’t accept such behavior from our world leaders? This article points to statistics that show there was a high correlation between turnout and results of the Russian elections. Also, the votes for Putin are hovering round numbers and the results were very uniform.
May 13th
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Finally, a cure for hicups
A little girl mixed up some grandma-wisdom to come up with a lollipop to cure hicups. I don’t know if it works, but if it does I will buy the first ones! Somehow I have hicups too often for too long, but I guess everybody hates hicups. There is a big market for this cure!
May 9th
March 2012
2 posts
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Amazing photographs of Ants →
These photos are ‘staged’, but still, you can’t tell ants what to do. Amazing shots!
Mar 19th
Canon 5D Mark III announced →
Besides the 61 AF points I don’t see a reason to upgrade my 5D Mark II yet, but I think that’s enough reason to do so…too bad you can’t just buy an upgrade kit like software :). Compared to the coming 1Dx the 5D Mark III is way better value for money so it seems.
Mar 2nd
February 2012
3 posts
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Materialized Views in MySQL: speed up your view
To speed up the process of a query which joins many tables together you may create a view. This is a type of cached query which acts like a table but is automatically updated by the query which you used to define it. CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW my_happy_view AS SELECT a.column1, b.column2 FROM table1 a LEFT JOIN table2 b ON a.id=b.table1_id When you use a very...
Feb 28th
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Beautiful Macro photography →
Some really nice Macro photo’s of insects. Pretty nice details there!
Feb 14th
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Feb 9th
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January 2012
3 posts
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Jan 31st
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“Physicists have been working for decades on a “theory of...”
Jan 30th
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Jan 5th
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December 2011
4 posts
Dec 31st
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Some amazing face transplants →
Photo’s of seven amazing face transplants people received.
Dec 31st
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Dec 18th
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MacOS Lion permissions and apache .htaccess
Something I have been dealing with a couple of times are permission denied errors by Apache in MacOS. Besides the usual httpd-conf each user has his/her own configuration to. Just take a look in /etc/apache2/users and fix permissions there: Open terminal (type ‘terminal’ in spotlight) Type ‘cd /etc/apache2/users’ and press return Type ‘sudo vim...
Dec 4th
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November 2011
2 posts
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Nov 17th
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Nov 8th
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October 2011
5 posts
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Global warming is a fact →
Finally some research really showed the rising temperatures on earth. The causes and consequences are of course yet still unknown. It is a fact now though, the earth is getting warmer.
Oct 31st
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Oct 29th
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Collabtive - open source Basecamp alternative →
The lack of changes in Basecamp is hunting its success. With Collabtive you get everything Basecamp has and more (even time tracking). Nice and free!
Oct 27th
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Oct 25th
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This is my tumblr.
This is my new website. I’m currently moving the domain name to tumblr, so it can be reached at http://frankherrman.nl within 24h (I hope). I will posts updates reguarly which will move from Tumblr to Twitter to Facebook. Most updates will be photo’s, I hope you like them.
Oct 25th