It’s Live! You can now generate and print out this folding wallet from your web browser, and order custom holographic tamper-evident tape directly from bitcoinpaperwallet.com. Enjoy!

Design features:

• Private key is hidden behind folds, so your wallet content is still safe if left out in the open or photographed.
• Tamper-proof tape indicates when you (or someone else!) has revealed the private key.
• Folding design obfuscates private keys so they’re hidden even when holding wallet up to a bright light.
• Reverse side has basic wallet operation instructions and a register for writing down deposits / balance.
• Private and public keys are replicated (and rotated) in triplicate to maximize chances of recovering keys if paper is damaged / crumpled.
• IMO, this looks prettier than the current front-runner for paper wallets.

I’m interested in any feedback at all, whether it’s with regards to the functionality, security, or plain old aesthetics of this design. This wallet design can be securely generated and printed for free using your web browser at bitcoinpaperwallet.com. (No photoshop/PDFs required, as the core programming is based on the excellent wallet generator from bitaddress.org.) If you’re paranoid, you can even run the generator as a client-side javascript offline.

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A Halloween (autumn) recipe.
Makes 2 or 3  cups.

Ingredients:

all the seeds from 1 large pomegranate (or two medium ones)

1 medium to big red onion, finely chopped

1 minced habañero (roasted and peeled if you like), or 2 minced serranos or jalapeños

1/2 cup of chopped cilantro

1/4 cup of rice vinegar (or other mild vinegar)

salt to taste

Preparation:

Mix all the stuff in a bowl and let it sit in the refrigerator for at least three hours.

Regarding chiles:

A habañero is nice because it adds quite a bit of heat but not too much flavor. You can substitute serranos or jalapeños, or whatever other chile you like – though nothing with too much flavor of its own since a fresh peppery taste isn’t really a good match for the sweet pomegranate taste.

Warning: 

If you elect to mince up a habañero, wear latex gloves, or otherwise contrive to keep the chile oil off of your fingers. It burns! Sometimes for days on end, like some underworld punishment doled out by Hades… Furthermore, it’s very difficult to wash off (though a vegetable oil rinse works best.) Be very, very careful not to touch your eyes or other – uh, sensitive membranes – after mincing hot chiles.

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I turned 40 today!

To celebrate, I put together a 2.5 hour continuous mix of the most moving, fun, inspirational, and peaceful music I’ve discovered over the last ten years.

This musical trip will take you into ambient, hip hop, folk, techno, and modern classical spaces.

I really enjoyed making this mix, and I hope it adds some joy to your day as well.

Click here to listen to or download the MP3 and read the liner notes.

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Gregory Pleshaw

Gregory Pleshaw

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Leah’s Valentines Day Mix by Canton on Mixcloud

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Ever since I started programming a Commodore 64 computer back in the 4th grade, almost every facet of my education, work, and entertainment has involved computers. I did some quick math and estimated that over the last 30 years, I’ve spent over 60,000 hours in front of a computer working, playing, and making music… So what if I could walk five miles a day without leaving my desk?

Continue reading “Workout at Work”

This is my home office standing desk / treadmill. It's usually a lot messier.

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If you build a campaign using a Mailchimp template as a starting point, you’ll probably notice a “friend on Facebook” link or icon automatically inserted into the header or footer. At least in my experience, this link often (a) does nothing, or (b) links to the wrong page, for example your individual Facebook profile instead of the Facebook business page you’re promoting.

How to fix the ‘Facebook’ link in your template

My advice is that you give up entirely on trying to use the “merge code” provided by Mailchimp. Instead just edit the template you use for your mailings, and “hard code” the target URL like so:

1. Open up the template you use to send your campaigns.
2. Click the ‘edit’ link next to the Facebook link or icon
3. Now that you’re in the editor, double-click the Facebook link to open up the link editor
4. Replace the “*|FACEBOOK:PROFILEURL|*” tag with the actual URL of your Facebook page.

Don't bother with the FB Merge tag. Just hardcode your Facebook URL.

“But I really, really want to fix the merge tag!”

Tough luck. If you like, you can try this: Select Account: Integrations and then connect up the Mailchimp integration app to your Facebook account. The upside is that you will now be able to add a “Subscribe to my newsletter” type tab to any of your Facebook page(s), and I believe you can even get Mailchimp to auto-post your campaigns to your pages. (Confirmation anyone?) The downside is that the FB merge tag in your template will still link to your individual / personal Facebook profile page. You can’t make the merge tag point to a particular Facebook page for which you are an admin.

You can get more details on this issue here.

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Right click here (or use the down arrow icon in the player above) to download the high quality MP3 for this song to your computer.

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asato ma sad gamaya / From ignorance, lead me to truth
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya / From darkness, lead me to light
mrtyor ma amrtam gamaya / From death, lead me to immortality.

Here’s a funky buzzy-breaks dance track I wrote that starts with this chant:

Right click here (or use the down arrow icon in the player above) to download the high quality MP3 for this song to your computer.

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In 1979, The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts, Santa Fe was founded to combine the elements of traditional healing and modern science, to offer an education in and experience of the extraordinary range of integrated massage and bodywork. Thirty-three years later, NMAHA, Santa Fe commands the lead as an Integrative, Holistic School of leading-edge Bodywork.
www.nmhealingargs.org

www.nmhealingarts.org

This extensive website redesign for NMAHA included:

• An engaging home page video and slideshow
• Online application forms & newsletter signups to boost enrollment
• Tons of information without information overload

Inner Page

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Food will be the biggest challenge of the 21st century. Will you be ready?

Mark Winne is an expert in “food security”, helping communities organize themselves to control how they grow and purchase their food. The purpose of this quick WordPress website redesign was to:

1. promote his work as a speaker and trainer (e.g. via the video on the home page)
2. give his blog posts a gorgeous new home
3. encourage visitors to sign up for his mailing list

www.markwinne.com

Interactive map for locating a food policy council near you

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July 23, 2012 – About a year ago, I received an invitation to be an “alpha tester” for a new Web application called MyFutureSelf.com. Conceived and built entirely by Santa Fe Web programmer Canton Becker, the site offered me the ability to keep an interactive private journal on Becker’s servers — located in an undisclosed location somewhere in the cloud…

Read the full article online

Santa Fe New Mexican - July 21, 2012

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Home Page

Portfolio area with slideshows

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“In other words I’m talking about an underground… And the purpose of this underground is find out how to preserve LIGHT. Life. The culture. How to keep things living. You see, I keep thinking that what we need is a new language – a language of the heart. Some kind of language between people that is a new kind of poetry. The poetry of the dancing bee that tells us where the honey is. In order to create that language, you’re going to have to learn how you can go through a looking glass into another kind of perception where you have the sense of being united to all things… And suddenly, you understand everything!”

You can listen to Invisible Space Journeys below, or you can download the entire MP3 album as a ZIP file.

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Fully "responsive" home page: click above and then try resizing your browser window. Watch what happens to the main slider image at the top...

Product pages have nice big images, descriptions, reviews, related products, upsells, crossells and more.

Wordpress can provide an integrated shopping cart that can process payments via PayPal, Authorize.net, 2Checkout and calculate shipping via FedEx, USPS, etc.

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Click to download PDF

Wondering which fish and seafood species are lowest and highest in mercury? Here’s a one-page printable chart suitable for hanging on your fridge or tucking in with your shopping list. I put this together based on information I gathered from the NRDC website.

mercury-fish-seafood-chart.pdf

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Home Page

Portfolio Area

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KiberaLawCentre.org

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“Why does Google Music show the wrong genres (compared to my iTunes genres?)”

This past weekend I went a little crazy trying to synchronize my iTunes library with the (otherwise totally awesome) Google Music service. As someone who had spent many hours carefully organizing the genres for my iTunes library, I was depressed to see all sorts of wrong and weird genres overriding my own metadata when viewing my library from within Google Music. After a great deal of digging and testing I figured out that the problem has to do with how iTunes encodes (or doesn’t encode) MP3 tags for standard/default genres like ‘Rock’ or ‘Folk’.

Here’s how to make your Google Music track genres match what you’ve set in iTunes:

1. Delete your entire Google Music library

This may be a painful step if you’ve already spent several days uploading your 100 GB iTunes music collection to the cloud, but it’s a necessary step since (at present time) Google Music will not check iTunes for any metadata changes after a MP3 file has been initially uploaded.

2. Re-tag your iTunes library with ‘custom’ genres

To make sure that Google Music accurately reflects the genres you’ve set in iTunes, you can’t use any of the standard/default iTunes genres. These are the autocomplete genres that come pre-installed with iTunes: Alternative, Blues/R&B, Books & Spoken, Children’s Music, Classical, Country, Dance, Easy Listening, Electronic, Folk, Hip Hop/Rap, Holiday, House, Industrial, Jazz, New Age, Pop, Religious, Rock, Soundtrack, Techno, Trance, Unclassifiable, World. Don’t use them.

Reassigning 1000′s of track genres isn’t as painful as it might seem. Just:

• Use View->Column Browser->Genres to select all the tracks belonging to a disallowed genre, e.g. ‘Classical’
• Select ‘Get Info’ from under the ‘File’ menu
• Type in a new genre you’ve made up yourself, e.g. ‘Classical-Modern’

My own methodology included making sure that all of my new genres included hypens, for example ‘Pop-Vintage’ and ‘Classical-Vocal’. Since none of the iTunes default genres have hypens, I knew I was done re-tagging my music when 100% of genres in the iTunes column browser were hyphenated.

3. Re-upload your iTunes library to Google Music

To make sure you do a clean upload, you might want to clear out the Google Music Manager application preferences and cache. I’m not sure how you do this on Windows, but on a Mac you:

• Quit the Music Manager (click on the headphones icon in the Mac OS toolbar)
• Delete [home]/Library/Preferences/com.google.musicmanager.plist
• Delete [home]/Library/Appplication Support/Google/MusicManager
• Re-launch Music Manager from your Applications folder

With a little luck and these instructions, you should be able to coerce Google Music into reflecting your iTunes genre assignments.

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“My Future Self is a new way to keep an private journal online. It will encourage you to write about your life and the stories from your past. If you have kids, it’s a way to start keeping a journal for them – for when they grow up and wonder what was going on during their early years.

My Future Self is not a website. It is a private journal you will keep via email, sometimes responding to questions about your life, sometimes by sending an email just because you feel like writing down what happened to you today.

The only time you’ll return to this website will be to explore what you’ve written. When you do come back, what makes My Future Self special is that your stories will automatically be organized into timelines, places, dates, and relationships so that you can better visualize and understand the story of your life.”

MyFutureSelf.com

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