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  • Three questions from the Cafe

    Three questions from the Cafe

    For my birthday this year a friend gifted me Cafe at the Edge of the World by John Strelecky (amazon link). She actually gave me the German translation, which was fine with me. It was good timing, as I had a long plane trip ahead of me on December 24th, so I read it while…


  • The importance of the denominator and a nutrition experiment

    The importance of the denominator and a nutrition experiment

    High-protein diets have been popular for a good ten years or more. In the last year or so, there has been an explosion of high-protein products at the grocery store, e.g. “high-protein pudding” or “high-protein yogurt”, which my daughter has been gobbling up. Several weeks ago my son told me he wanted to try a…


  • Closures in PHPUnit dataProviders

    Closures in PHPUnit dataProviders

    Today I was working on a PHPUnit test at work for testing Elasticsearch. In this case, I wanted to make sure that the data that I was indexing was findable. Basically I wanted to run a search for a given query and check that the results were as expected. I wanted to run this search…


  • Found in Translation

    Last July I had an accident which caused a traumatic brain injury. Since then I have recovered considerably. I spent three weeks in a rehab facility near Cologne in November. During that time I did lots of hiking, reading, writing, and thinking. While hiking, verse started coming into my head. The last time I wrote…


  • Collapse all the things!

    Collapse all the things!

    When I first created this blog in 2006, I found one thing severely lacking in WordPress – the display of archives. I wanted an expandable and collapsible list of archives like Blogger had in my sidebar, instead of just a dropdown or a big list. Of course, one thing that WordPress has had from a…


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