Dave Page http://chwalisz.org Stuff Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:18:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another half century to go… My 50th birthday is officially over. Thank you to all who sent cards. 85 cards creates an impressive pile. Heck, I didn’t know I knew 85 people. Thanks!

]]> http://chwalisz.org/2012/01/01/half-century/ Shiny Dimes Just found two Roosevelt dimes, one from 1964 in silver and one alloy from 1965. Never noticed how dull real silver one is compared to the alloy

]]> http://chwalisz.org/2012/01/01/shiny-dimes/ Blue Star While watching “2 Broke Girls“, Caroline sells some rings so they can get a new Blue Star range to cook cupcakes. Blue Star?

Never heard of them. Looked them up. Nice. Expensive, ala Viking. Might not get it very soon

So here is mine. Love the 20,000 BTU burner – I am so there. [...]]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/12/27/blue-star/ Touch of Thai in Dixon See my Yelp Review of Touch of Thai

Good food and inexpensive. Recommended.

221 W. First St. Dixon, IL 61021

]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/12/27/touch-of-thai/ SSH public key and Bitbucket So I use Bitbucket to host several private Hg repos, all working great from Windows via Putty and Pageant.

Today I tried to update the local repo.

C:\bin\app>hg pull sending hello command sending between command abort: no suitable response from remote hg!

WTF? Tried different machines, other accounts, same problem.

Bit of Googling… some users [...]]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/11/26/ssh-public-key/ Joe Carlson in the Army Air Corps Bette’s dad, Joseph Carlson, was married and went right into the Army Air Corps (now the USAF) in 1943. Before he died in 2006, he and I sat on the screen porch and I pumped him for info on his Army career. His memory was a bit fuzzy, and he repeated things, but it was [...]]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/11/11/joe-carlson-in-the-army-air-corps/ Best Eulogy Ever Rest in Peace, Dennis

]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/11/09/best-eulogy-ever/ The Genius Continues : Instructable : Replacing the shock absorber in a Felco 7 Pruner See my Instructable if you are rebuilding a Felco 7 Pruner…

]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/10/11/the-genius-continues-instructable-replacing-the-shock-absorber-in-a-felco-7-pruner/ Dumping a Java object ID to a string I have wanted to do this in the past, never found the code. I found this handy code here recently. Wanted to save it here. Thanks, dude.

You can also handily convert an integer to a hex string using the Integer class, so you can get the value that would come after the @ [...]]]> http://chwalisz.org/2011/10/04/dumping-a-java-object-id-to-a-string/ Saturday – Pigeon Point Finally made it to the Pigeon Point Lighthouse.

Sam’s Chowder House

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