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The Burial Ground at Grafton State Hospital.

Posted on June 19, 2012 by crypto

We found the Tower geocache (GC17MA5) near the old burial ground for the Grafton State Hospital on Saturday (2012-06-16) It could be a great cache for visiting on days of atonement or on Memorial day. Much to our surprise the … Continue reading →

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Another Post with Captcha

Posted on June 12, 2012 by crypto

 

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Android Run at Bootup

Posted on March 13, 2012 by crypto

There are two considerations for Run at Bootup. public class SubLauncher extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ private static final String TAG = “NSubLauncher1″; public void onCreate(Bundle ThomasofNeedham) { super.onCreate(ThomasofNeedham); try { // comment … Continue reading →

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Android Enternal Power Switch.

Posted on February 14, 2012 by crypto

Android Tablet Power Sequence If the Android is to be embedded in a stand-alone manner, there must be a method of automatically monitoring the power input, turning the device on and booting up into an application.  This page describes how … Continue reading →

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Embedded Android Introduction

Posted on February 13, 2012 by crypto

Occasionally, there is a need to have a application that does not depend upon the user pressing the start button when the system starts after power up. This is a series of posts about the hardware and software to achieve … Continue reading →

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Occupy Boston October 25, 2011 by Tom Birchmire

Posted on October 26, 2011 by crypto

Needham, Ma is perhaps 11 miles from Dewey Square in downtown Boston and light-years away when measured in terms of social anxieties. In Needham, those concerns are about how much we will vote to raise our taxes to pay for … Continue reading →

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Wendy and Tom at a Halloween Party

Posted on October 24, 2011 by crypto

Francis V,  a friend of ours in Salem, invited us to a Halloween party on October 22, 2011. Wendy came as an Angry Bird complete with sound and I as the Ghost of Programmers Past.  If you look closely at … Continue reading →

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New Hampshire wonderer finds its way to Rhode Island.

Posted on October 16, 2011 by crypto

On March 6th, 2011 the treatment plant at Hooksett, NH overflowed into the Merrimack River.  Ordinarily this would have passed without notice except this overflow carried several  million cute plastic disks with it.  These tiny mesh disks provide bacteria a … Continue reading →

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A great commercial that misses the target

Posted on October 7, 2011 by crypto

Every time I see the Talbot’s commercial I think this is a great ad; it’s too bad I’m an old white guy instead of a 30 year old chic woman who is tuned into timeless fashion.  How could Talbots miss … Continue reading →

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Portals Published to Android Market

Posted on September 15, 2011 by crypto

Portals is a location based GPS game that can be played anywhere.  The action takes place in the virtual Needham, Ma. townsquare.  If you are a geocacher there is a real logbook to sign and a secret codeword but that’s … Continue reading →

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