Name: Gregory Tucker
Date registered: 2010-08-21
Dec
27
The Economist’s December 17th article The faith (and doubts) of our fathers was the most nuanced and accurate an article on the subject as I have seen. The “founding fathers” did not speak with one voice. I love this quote: “They did not spend their time producing pearls of unanimously agreed wisdom.” Their quarrels were …
Dec
04
In her fascinating mini-book from Amazon Kindle Store, Nine Things Successful People Do Differently, Heidi Grant Halvorson argues “People whose goals are about getting better, rather than being good, take difficulty in stride and appreciate the journey as much as the destination.” It reminds me of my first major dive trip overseas to a live-aboard …
Apr
26
It is easy to have a love/hate relationship with Apple. On one hand they make great products. On the other hand, they control control their products too tightly. The most recent “anti-Apple” catalyst was the revelation that iPhones track movement information in an unencrypted database, until it was revealed a couple days later that Google …
Mar
16
Everyday seems to be a major event. The M8.9 earthquake in Sendai has changed life throughout Japan. I am only reporting on my own experiences. As I walked around the neighborhood I started to sense we are returning to normalcy. The panic buying seems to be subsiding and stores are showing signs they will catch …
Jan
10
This lessons shows you how to change preferences in Firefox. Choose Preferences… First select Preferences… from the Firefox menu General Select the General button Show my home page 1. When Firefox starts: "Show my home page" 2. Home Page: http://gregorytucker.com/ (This step is very important Show my windows and tabs from last time Alternatively you …
Jan
01
This issue had been bugging me forever. The automatic update functionality of WordPress, for plugins and themes, never worked well. Occasionally it did, but usually I had to secure shell (ssh) and update manually. I finally found the fix. Login to 1and1 using secure shell (ssh) . At the root of your account edit (vi) …
Nov
07
A friend recently reported when applying for Japanese passport for his daughter of dual citizenship, the Japanese embassy called to ask if the father had given permission to do so. This makes me wonder if they asked only the Japanese parent. I also wonder whether a verbal acknowledgement by the Japanese parent that the non-Japanese …
Oct
28
As you know we have serious concerns about the decline of US hegemony caused by our own decade long record of fiscal recklessness. We are concerned about the nature and goals of the Chinese space program that might inhibit the use of US forward force projection to achieve diplomatic goals or force economic concessions on the Chinese people. We oppose China in succeeding in an area where we have demonstrated 40 years to complete and total failure.
Oct
13
In 3 simple steps: 1. Install epel rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm 2. Install rpmfusion repel rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/updates/testing/5/i386/rpmfusion-free-release-5-0.1.noarch.rpm 3. Install pgAdmin III yum install pgadmin3
Sep
08
I have posted a couple new family videos. The first is of a trip we made to the JAXA i branch at Tokyo Station, for a self-study project Reon was doing for school over the summer break. The second comes from last weekend’s bottle rocket competition. It took place along the riverfront about 10 minutes …
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