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· 27 Elul 5779 (Friday 27 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

Testing to see what happens with post properties and syndication using Jetpack.

This is a read post with a book cover as its featured image.

I want to see if the photo and other information goes through.

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· 22 Elul 5779 (Sunday 22 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

This secondary character, (I think she’s secondary but can’t really tell at this point) likes both mojitos and Earl Gray tea. I’m trying to decide of the Mojito and Earl Gray tea liking should be categorized as one fault, or two separate faults. At this point i’m hoping she doesn’t become too important, because right now I’m not impressed with her.

228 McCormick Ave, State College, PA 16801

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· 22 Elul 5779 (Sunday 22 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

This book has a main character who beats up bad guys with suitcases, and, I think I am totally here for this. Definitely original. Takes “anything can be used as a weapon” to a whole new level.

Hoping no one from TSA figures this out or they’ll ban suitcases as part of their security theater.

220 McCormick Ave, State College, PA 16801

84 °F Partly Cloudy

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· 22 Elul 5779 (Sunday 22 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

The book jacket information read at the beginning of NLS (Bard) audio books reminds me of movie previews.

Perfect for getting drinks or snacks or taking another kind of break before you dive into the next book.

And with that, on to book 98.

238 McCormick Ave, State College, PA 16801(3563ft)

84 °F Partly Cloudy

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· 22 Elul 5779 (Sunday 22 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

Since I am so close to finishing my original challenge goal, I have decided to update my reading challenge to 150 books instead of 100 books. We still have three months left in the year, so I don’t think this will be too hard to complete. It took me until the third book to really get into the series, but having read and really liked the last three books, this one will definitely end up in the re-read pile for later.

921 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801(1085ft)

82 °F Partly Cloudy

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· 17 Elul 5779 (Tuesday 17 September 2019) · 1 minute to read

You don’t realize how dependent you are on a working internet connection until you’ve finished the last book you downloaded and are about to download more books, only to find that you have no internet connection.

I have ten books to go for my reading challenge and I will probably have this one in the bag within the next week. I haven’t decided if I’m going to up the challenge before I finish it in order to make it last through the end of 2019, or just call it a win and set the one for next year higher.

What say you internets?

289 Easterly Pkwy, State College, PA 16801

66 °F Clear

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· 10 Nisan 5779 (Monday 15 April 2019) · 1 minute to read

I said the other day that I would probably finish the Virgil Flowers books in May. I lied. I just started the last one, am reading at 175% speed, and will finish it just before 1AM tomorrow morning. I think I’ve unlocked the secret of how you guys manage to read so many books in a year. 🙂

921 S Pugh St, State College, PA 16801

43 °F Mostly Cloudy

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· 14 Tevet 5778 (Monday 1 January 2018) · 1 minute to read

I’m working on backfeeding all my Goodreads statuses and book review data to my personal blog. For now, I’m starting with new statuses for my 2018 reading challenge. So, here’s the first one. For now there will be two copies on social media, and I will go in and tell Goodreads not to syndicate to Facebook and Twitter and syndicate from my blog instead. 7% done with Getting Things Done, by David Allen. I’m really going to enjoy implementing everything in this book. I’m glad the strategies are technology agnostic. It means that I’ll need to spend less time trying to redesign and then implement around inaccessible technology. This is the first book in this year’s Goodreads challenge, and I’m also going to enjoy adding status updates with actual text to the completion status of each book.

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· 4 Tevet 5777 (Monday 2 January 2017) · 1 minute to read

I’m starting a new book challenge for this year. I think they’re a nice diversion and they allow for a little friendly competition. This year I’ve set it to fifty-two books so I average about one book a week. I’d also like to write more reviews, except I likely won’t do it on Goodreads. I’d like to have the book covers as the featured image (thumbnail) for each book so that when I syndicate things to Twitter and Facebook there are pictures to go with the content. I’ll do this manually for now until I find out how much of a nightmare Goodreads API permissions are. You apparently can’t scrape their feeds, although they exist. I was highly disappointed when I found this out, because it would have been the easiest way to retrieve data. Oh well.

Update: You can, apparently, scrape the feed, but only sort of, because you don’t get complete control of the data that comes across.

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· 20 Kislev 5777 (Tuesday 20 December 2016) · 1 minute to read

So I’m reading the 13th Scott Harvath book, and I’ve gotten to a point where Scott Harvath is able to tell whether or not the terrorists are logging into Facebook, and what their visiting on Facebook. Come on! Facebook even when this book was written was using SSL. The entire point of SSL is to protect data while it’s in transit. That includes usernames and passwords, and it also includes what URLs (or pages in Facebook’s case), people are visiting. There’s absolutely no way this character would be able to tell whether or not some terrorists were visiting Facebook and even if you could there’s no way for him to be able to tell what Pages they are visiting, and what they’re doing on Facebook. Christ on crutches, I know research is hard and everything but this is pretty simple to find out. Google is amaze! It can help with all kinds of things! Including researching how technology works and how Facebook works. Not that Facebook is terribly awesome about privacy, but even they don’t screw up this badly.