Earlier today, rumors began to spread that Yahoo might be shutting down Delicious. It’s bittersweet for us to see Delicious go. The service was a pioneer in the social bookmarking space, and many of us here have thousands of bookmarked pages dating back to the Del.icio.us days.

Evernote is actually a great Delicious alternative. Unlike Delicious, Evernote allows you to clip your favorite webpage–text, images and links–so that you can view them at your leisure, online or offline. No more worrying about 404 errors or changing pages. True, we don’t have the social features of Delicious, but if you want to save your favorite pages forever, Evernote is perfect.

Unix find is a pretty tricky but very useful utility that can often fool even experienced UNIX professionals with ten on more years of sysadmins work under the belt. It can enhance functionality of those Unix utilities that does not include tree traversal (BTW GNU grep has -r option for this purpose and can be used on its own to perform tree traversal task: grep -r "search string" /tmp.). There are several versions of find with the main two being POSIX find used in Solaris, AIX, etc and GNU find used in linux. GNU find can be installed on Solaris and AIX and it is actually a strong recommendation as there are some differences; moreover gnu find have additional capabilities that are often useful.

Ukslc.org's technical article section covers a wide range of technical topics, from the basics ( Cleaning Out A Smoke Machine) to the more complex ( DMX Configuration).

there's a new excuse to indulge in completely uninformed hypothesizing about whom Obama and McCain will pick as their running mates.

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blog post with collection of quotes around the reasons for war in the Middle East

Their “green” initiative includes adopting new in-house strategies ranging from utilizing 5% bio-diesel in maintenance vehicles and aggressive recycling programs to building more energy efficient homes that offer the latest solar technology and environmen

Maple Hill Farm’s 202-tube solar hot water system (angled tubes at top) & 15 kilowatt solar electric array.

…designed and installed by [ReVision Energy], Maine's full service renewable energy contractor. Specializing in solar, solar thermal and high efficiency wood boilers, serv[ing] all of southern and mid coast Maine with offices in Portland and Liberty.

By statute, the new Solar Incentive Program is set to continue until December of 2010. Under current statute, the incentive program will be refunded in 2009, and reconfigured to include an allocation of 20 percent of funding to support a wind technology i

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