Daylight Savings Time Archives - The Silicon Underground David L. Farquhar on technology old and new, computer security, and more Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:39:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://kerosin.digital/rss-chimp16321610 Check your smoke detectors, please. And make sure you have more than one. https://dfarq.homeip.net/check-your-smoke-detectors-please/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=check-your-smoke-detectors-please https://dfarq.homeip.net/check-your-smoke-detectors-please/#comments Tue, 22 Oct 2013 11:00:45 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6883 Early Monday morning, a fire broke out a couple of streets over from me. Sadly, there was one casualty, a seven-year-old second grader who attends the same school as my oldest son. His older sister heroically came and got him

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/check-your-smoke-detectors-please/feed/ 3 6883 The re-segregation of baseball https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-re-segregation-of-baseball/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-re-segregation-of-baseball https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-re-segregation-of-baseball/#comments Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:02:55 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6526 The Kansas City Star had a piece today about the sharp decline in the number of African-Americans playing baseball. Of course, when I grew up, the Royals relied heavily on African-Americans. George Brett was the star, but without Willie Wilson

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]]> https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-re-segregation-of-baseball/feed/ 1 6526 Remember: Daylight Savings Time starts this weekend https://dfarq.homeip.net/remember-daylight-savings-time-starts-this-weekend/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remember-daylight-savings-time-starts-this-weekend Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:02:04 +0000 https://dfarq.homeip.net/?p=6427 Remember, in most parts of the United States this weekend marks spring-forward time, which means Monday will be the worst Monday of the year since you’ll still be adjusting to a new sleep schedule. Due to my oddball work schedule,

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