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The CurrCon Java Applet displays prices on this web page converted with today’s exchange rates into your local international currency, e.g. Euros, US dollars, Canadian dollars, British Pounds, Indian Rupees… CurrCon requires an up-to-date browser and Java version 1.5 or later, preferably 1.7.0_04. If you can’t see the prices in your local currency, Troubleshoot

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Iraq, Money, Religion, Ethics…

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Roedy’s Health

Many of the bigots who opposed integration in 1957 in Little Rock were captured on film, jeering and behaving like thugs. Nothing of these people’s lives will last in history but these images. They cannot undo them. Homophobic bigots will eventually feel the same shame at the images captured of their behaviour.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

RSS feed for the Java glossary	Java Glossary and Computer Buyers’ glossary	The following essays and entries recently changed: 2012-05-26 Finding Quoted Strings: Using regexes to find quoted Strings in text using regexes. 2012-05-21 Reflow: Command line utility to reflow text files, so that all lines are about the same length. 2012-05-16 Kobo: Online ebook store KoboBooks added to all book referrals. 2012-05-13 PAD Submitter: Dropped two dead padsites from the list of submission sites. 2012-05-07 people’s parcel delivery: A low-cost parcel delivery system managed by local independent agents, that does not use trucks. FindParked: Utility to find links on your website that point to parked websites. Back-end for Xenu. 2012-05-06 parked sites: I explain what parked websites are. I also wrote a utility, not yet released, to detect them. It found 33 on my website which I have cleaned up. After a bit more polishing, I will release it with source to the public. It is called FindParked. 2012-05-03 HBase: How Google handles massive databases. Hadoop: How Google handles massive databases. 2012-05-02 primitives: I have corrected and filled in the table of primitives with additional information. 2012-04-29 Notepad: Windows simple text editor, and its various output formats. 2012-04-24 photopainting: Prior to computers, photographers would touch up photos, and colourise the using translucent paints. Tools like Adobe Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro allow digitally touching up photos, but much faster. 2012-04-23 FOFA: A device to help find lost objects such as keys, wallets, glasses, remotes. 2012-04-20 chorus experimenter: A tool to teach about/experiment with the way multiple sounds combine. Homestead: A service to host and generate HTML markup simple website. Shozam: A tool to generate the HTML markup for a gallery of annotated images. 2012-04-09 patent: Advantages and disadvantages of patents and what needs to be done to improve them. 2012-04-08 Panopticlick: Find out how vulnerable you are to being tracked on the Internet even if you turn off cookies. Pachube: A website that lets you submit data from energy monitors, home automation, weatherstations, radiation monitors etc. in real time then display the results as graphs and other apps. 2012-04-07 mojibake: A Japanese word for a particular kind of gibberish that happens when text is rendered with a different encoding from the one used to create it. 2012-04-06 JFugue: a Java-based too for creating music simpler than MIDI. Zip FileSystem: How to use the new Java 7 FileSystem class to treat a zip file as if it were a directory tree. 5000 year time capsule: Student project to create time capsules that will last 5000 years. 2012-04-04 Java 7: Overview of new features in Java 7. 2012-04-03 Google Script: Google’s language to glue together apps from Google on-line services.

RSS feed for various ethical concerns	Ethics, Environment, Animal Rights, Human Rights, Politics, Money, Religion, Living Love, Esperanto and Deep Thoughts Essays	The following essays and entries recently changed: 2012-05-24 Bill C-38: Canada’s Steven Harper is trying to repeal most environmental law in the fine print of the spending estimates bill. 2012-05-20 The Restaurant: I work in a restaurant with an unusual job. 2012-05-19 Planetary Exploration: A dream about planentary exploration. 2012-05-18 Cuba: A brief history of the bizarre relationship of Cuba and the USA. 2012-05-08 Campbell’s Soup: The great soup ripoff. 2012-04-13 Dream about a cushion-eating horse: I had a dream that a fat pale grey horse was chewing on my chesterfield cushions. 2012-04-12 American asks Jesus to bless child torturers: American argues that the Iraq and Afghan wars are noble, blessed and 99% virtuous. 2012-04-10 Günter Grass’s poem, What Must Be Said: Günter Grass has written warning about nuclear war between Israel and Iran. I made an attempt to translate it from German to English. 2012-03-27 American Health Care System: I believe I have the solution to the US health care crisis. The catch is American are too attached to ideologies to implement it.

RSS feed for the Gay and Black glossary	Gay & Black Glossary	I recently changed the following essays and entries: 2012-05-08 sexual preference: What is sexual preference? Can you change it? 2012-05-07 BelAmi: A high quality gay porn site.

	Roedy’s health	I accidentally discovered that avoiding wheat cleared up my problems with non-stop nausea and digestive tract distress. Unfortunately, I just love baked goods, and find the wheat/gluten-free replacements insipid. Further, getting serious about avoiding sugar in any form, especially fruit juice, is improving my energy level. Last revised/verified: 2012-02-27

Public Domain	Public Domain Status	In the event of my death, the entire mindprod.com website will revert to the public domain, including downloadable programs and source. You will be welcome to repost and modify any or all of the material on the website. Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

	Inter-Corporate	The Canadian Mind Products website is now hosted by Inter-Corporate.com. One nice service they offer is buying domain names for you charging only flat $19.00 USD per year (i.e. zero markup on the Verisign Network Solutions/InterNIC fee) for .com, .org,.net, .edu and $50.00 CAD per year for .ca. Email Randolf Richardson for more information. Also see domains essay for more information.

Pills are costed so that patients needing twice as big a dose pay twice as much. This is unfair since the primary cost of the pill is the development not the incremental cost of the ingredients. If larger dose pills were packaged so they could not be split, then the all doses could be fairly priced.
~ Roedy (born: 1948-02-04 age: 64)

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