Nate Silver on the Odds of Airborne Terror

Nate Silver on the Odds of Airborne Terror: "

Nate Silver:

You could board 20 flights per year and still be less likely to be the subject of an attempted terrorist attack than to be struck by lightning.

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Yeah, um... boooo FileVault.

I kept trying to deactivate FileVault, but if OS X failed to decrypt any corrupted files, then it would abort and refuse to deactivate FileVault. So, I had to manually decrypt the files (mv them out of my home directory) before OS X would allow me to deactivate OS X.

My conclusion: Do not use FileVault.

IO-related freeze

My Macbook Pro is misbehaving. Every few minutes, it will freeze for about 10-15 seconds while accessing the hard drive. I recently enabled file vault for my home directory. I have run the disk utility on both the hard drive and the sparse image of my home directory. Not sure what is going on here. I guess I will create a new account that doesn't have file vault and see if it behaves the same way.

org-mode speed keys

I use org-mode in Emacs, and today I discovered "speed commands":

org-use-speed-commands is a variable defined in `org.el'.

Its value is t

Documentation:

Non-nil means, activate single letter commands at beginning of a headline. This may also be a function to test for appropriate locations where speed commands should be active.

So, when you put your cursor at the beginning of a headline, then many commands are accessible by a single key.

Traveling with Baby

Portland --> Minneapolis --> Kansas City -> Lawrence -> Cole Camp, MO --> Columbia, MO --> Wichita --> Kansas City --> Cincinnati --> Bluffton, OH --> Cincinnati --> Portland.

I'm scared.

The 7 Foods Experts Won't Eat

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/the-7-foods-experts-wont-eat-547963/

A really good list to pay attention to. Sounds just like everything Erinne's been telling me about these foods for a while now (except for the one about salmon).

The Myth of Complete Protein

Most people I know have heard of complete protein, that meat contains complete protein, and that those who do not eat meat must combine things (e.g. rice and beans) to get a complete protein. Lies!

The "complete protein" theory is a myth.

Of course you don't believe me. So do a Google search. Read the history of this erroneous theory, how it became accepted as truth. You will be quite surprised.