{"id":362,"date":"2008-06-26T13:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=362"},"modified":"2009-01-14T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T01:41:24","slug":"odd-lots-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=362","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Good grief! <a href=\"http:\/\/hgic.clemson.edu\/factsheets\/HGIC1174.htm\">Salvia<\/a>                 <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Salvia_divinorum\">is a hallucinogen<\/a>!                 How in hell did I get to be 55 and not know that? (We used to                 grow it as a ground cover years ago.) <\/li>\n<li>Nick Hodges wrote to say that the Easy Duplicate Finder utility                 I mentioned in my June 20, 2008 entry was written in Delphi. A                 lot of no-install apps are written in Delphi. They&apos;re fast, compact,                 and don&apos;t crap DLLs into your WindowsSystem32 directory. Too                 bad they&apos;re written in a Kiddie Language\u2122. <\/li>\n<li>Speaking of no-install apps, I&apos;ve tried a few more. One good                 one (if of limited use) is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jam-software.com\/freeware\/index.shtml\">TreeSize                 Free<\/a>, which scans a drive or a directory tree and shows you                 which parts of the hierarchy are the ones that use the most drive                 space. Another that I&apos;ve just discovered is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faststone.org\/FSViewerDetail.htm\">FastStone                 image viewer<\/a>, which isn&apos;t quite a digital photo manager but                 comes pretty damned close. So far, I can recommend both.<\/li>\n<li>Jason Kaczor sent me a pointer to Microsoft&apos;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidetelescope.org\/\">WorldWide                 Telescope<\/a>, and it&apos;s worth a look, especially if you&apos;ve got                 a big-screen TV that can display at least 1024 X 768 graphics.                 Needs XP SP2 and some middling computer horsepower, but man, what                 a show!<\/li>\n<li>Any time anybody anywhere experiences any weather that they                 don&apos;t like, environmentalists jump up and do the <i>Global warming!                 Global warming!<\/i> cheer\u2014but when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/centralcoast\/ci_9569566\">environmentalists                 block brush clearing in a fire-prone area and the whole place                 subsequently goes up<\/a>, as Santa Cruz recently did, do we hear                 but a peep? Heh. (Thanks to Pete Albrecht for the link.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good grief! Salvia is a hallucinogen! How in hell did I get to be 55 and not know that? (We used to grow it as a ground cover years ago.) Nick Hodges wrote to say that the Easy Duplicate Finder utility I mentioned in my June 20, 2008 entry was written in Delphi. A lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}