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We’re organizing the 1st UAE Meeting on Neurorehabilitation (UMNR) here at Khalifa University! Come hang out with all the cool people. It’s on March 9-10, 2011.

After correcting a minor incident of exploding capacitors, I was able to charge my Scooba 330 and set it free on the tile floors of my new apartment. In short: meh. While it’s really cool from a geeky perspective, it … Continue reading →

I wrote a stupid little script that was designed to figure out whether it is more cost effective to run my server on spot instances or on reserved instances. It calculates cumulative spot cost over the last 90 days and … Continue reading →

Hi kids! Today we’re going to learn about moving WordPress to a subdomain. Why would you want to do that? Well, let’s say that you want to have SSL over the subdomain (only), or that you want the subdomain to … Continue reading →

I was once told that a good rule of thumb to calculate your salary in the UAE is to take your US salary and multiply it by 2-3. Add free housing (or a housing allowance), and decent benefits, and a … Continue reading →

NeoRouter 1.5.0 will not install on Mac OS X 10.7. The installer package searches for /dev/tun to verify that the TUN/TAP drivers are installed, but the search always fails in Lion. To work around this, I created a package with … Continue reading →

My Google Mail account is over 8 GB in size (thanks, attachment whores!), and includes over 70,000 conversations in my Inbox (ignoring the Archives). Unfortunately, this means that most search queries normally take 5-10 seconds, and this sucks, especially when … Continue reading →

I felt the need to collect the information I’ve been gathering about climbing in the UAE into one place. It’s been hard to find information about where to buy climbing gear, indoor climbing walls, etc. One geeky afternoon I threw … Continue reading →

DRAFT Hardware: MacMini4,1 (Mid-2010) Software: Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit (Natty Narwhal) The problem: booting with the CD gives bad graphics or a blank screen. The solution: when booting, hold down alt. Select the “Windows” CD, not the “EFI” CD. This will … Continue reading →