Apple’s Automator is a great to for scripting those activities that you find yourself doing over an over. I needed a way to translate a selection of text. I created this simple Automator workflow to grab the selected text and send it to Google’s Translation service.…
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In the Dan Brown novel
The Lost Symbol a character finds an IP address but is confounded trying to figure out whose IP address it is. She enlists the help of a hacker friend who is also confounded but claims to be able to hack it in no time.…
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I stumbled upon an old episode of The Streets of San Francisco called “Innocent No More” from February 1977. Richard Hatch was the co-star on the show and Mark Hamill was the guest star.
Dan Brown’s most recent thriller novel The Lost Symbol we find Robert Langdon on the train of a bad guy who uses Dr. Langdon knowledge of ancient symbols to track down a mysterious talisman of the Masons. Mean while another character is trying to uncover the identity of a web server containing some vital but redacted information.…
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