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Skiplagged: book flights, and skip legs to make them cheaper – via: Jan Wildeboer, Brandon Downey, Bloomberg

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/26

I remembered about skipping flight legs, so was glad to find back this post where Jan Wildeboer has shared:

“Actually, it’s about ethics in ticket booking” ;-)

Brandon Downey originally shared:

Honestly, given how poorly airlines treat their customers, an argument that “Once you buy a ticket to a destination, you agree to travel all the way there and it would be unethical to do otherwise” is pretty laughable — basically, “it is unethical to find loopholes in our broken business model.” Also, great marketing for skiplagged.com.

United, Orbitz Sue Travel Site Over ‘Hidden City’ Tickets:

United Airlines Inc. and Orbitz Worldwide LLC sued to prevent the travel website Skiplagged.com from helping consumers buy what the companies call improper “hidden city” plane tickets that undercut their sales.

–jeroen

via: Honestly, given how poorly airlines treat their customers, an argument that….

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Sudoku Solving Techniques

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/23

Interesting: some Links for the less than trivial Sudoku Solving techniques.

–jeroen

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Wink – now that is a cool way to automate your home

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/21

While in the USA I usually go by Home Depot to get some inspiration.

This time my Eye fell on a lot of  Smart Home Products compatible with the Wink Hub: people in the USA have a lot more choice in that area than in The Netherlands.

So I did some more browsing and found this: Shop Amazon – 20% or More Off Select Wink Home Automation Bundles until January 31st 2015.

Some of that is even better than the ones listed at Wink – Featured Products – The Home Depot.

Too bad this 110V stuff doesn’t work in 220V land (:

–jeroen

via: Wink | Buy and View Smart Home Products.

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“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning…

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/13

I never use wireless keyboards because of the bad signal quality. Now there is one more reason not to use them…

By Andrian Knoth, thanks to a link by Kristian Köhntopp:

“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity.”

–jeroen

via “KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning….

The sniffing assembly...

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Password requirements by @NicvantSchip – via Koushik Dutta – Google+

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/12

Brilliant: password requirements by @NicvantSchip.

“Your password must contain at least 8 letters, a capital, a plot, a protagonist with good character development, a twist & a happy ending.”

And Dilbert via Thomas Kear:

“Starting today, passwords must contain letters, numbers, sign language and squirrel noises”

–jeroen

via: Koushik Dutta – Google+.

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The Underground Map of the Elements | Mark Lorch | Science | theguardian.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/02

Click on the map to view a larger version. Thanks Guardian!

Click on the map to view a larger version. Thanks Guardian!

Fun way to display some other relations between various series of atoms:

–jeroen

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EveryTimeZone: The visualization of Time Zones done right.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/29

Ever got your mind into a headache state because of time zone calculations?

Then EveryTimeZone.com is for you: the best visualization of time zones I’ve ever seen.

Makes it easy to schedule meetings, or be on-time for a webinar organized anywhere in the world.

Or to say “happy new year” just in time for your friends a few continents apart.

–jeroen

via: Time Zones.

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em-dosbox: Internet Archive port of DOSBOX in your Browser. Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/27

Wow. Just wow. DOSBOX in a web browser.

Read this: Each New Boot a Miracle « ASCII by Jason Scott.

Then play with this: dreamlayers/em-dosbox or the integrated version here: https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_msdos

–jeroen

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[NL] Hotspots van flitsers in 2013

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/24

Hotspots van flitsers in 2013.

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Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/23

Found back an awesome post from about 16 months back: Am I really a developer or just a good googler? – Scott Hanselman.

I admin that I’m both, not only for development, but also for life hacking and a lot of other stuff I do.

There is so much information, that you can’t know or remember everything.

In fact one of the reasons I started my own blog, contribute to sites like StackOverflow, newsgroups, and speak/visit at events (conferences, user groups, etc) is that I don’t know everything and the interaction helps me learn more.

One of the cool things, is when Googling for some information, I stumble upon one of my own blog entries or other online contributions (:

–jeroen

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