aws s3 – cp / mv Skip Existing Files

When moving files between buckets or “folders” with Amazon’s command line interface, aws s3, it would be great to be able to skip files already at the destination preventing overwrites and wasted bandwidth. Unfortunately, there is no documented feature for aws s3, but s3cmd does have this feature. You cannot “skip-existing” files with aws s3 … Read more

Jan-22 2017: Search Console performed an infrastructure update that may cause a change in your data.

Google Webmaster Tools performed an update on January 22nd which may cause anomalies in search data. For my web properties, this resulted in a 50% drop in reported “Structured Data” elements in webmaster tools. According to Google’s Data Anomalies reporting page, an event for January 22nd has not yet been reported.  

Email Delivery Problems [Returned From Office 365]

The message undelivered returned email from Office 365 [onmicrosoft.com] is a mailer-daemon equivalent mailing system which notifies the sender of the delivery issues. These issues can range from user-not-found to mailbox full, or attachment rejections. If you are having trouble with this message, leave a detailed comment at the bottom! Here is an example rejection … Read more

How Does GoogleWebLight Work?

update 2020: it appears GoogleWebLight has been retired. http://googleweblight.com/i?u= now redirects directly to the URL you are trying to access   GoogleWebLight, as you may see in your referral traffic as “googleweblight.com” optimizes web traffic for slow 2G / 3G connections. When Google detects a user is browsing the web with a slow connection and … Read more

Google WebLight Tester – Check WebLight Version

update 2020: it appears GoogleWebLight has been retired. http://googleweblight.com/i?u= now redirects directly to the URL you are trying to access See GoogleWebLight Version   For an easy way to get right to a light website, prefix the site with lite.website lite.website/https://example.com/ A Quick Way To Shorten Links: lite.website/http://example.com

Preparing Your Kalm with Kava Concentrate

To prepare your Kalm with Kava Concentrate is quite simple. Just add half the bottle to 8 or so ounces of juice, water, or smoothie. Each bottle is 2 ounces. A serving size is 1 ounce. For those who don’t have superhuman vision, here are the ingredients in the January 2017 batch of Kalm with … Read more

Weird Character Modifier – ” ͈̮” / A͈̮ B͈̮ C͈̮ D͈̮ E͈̮ F͈̮ G͈̮ H͈̮ I͈̮ J͈̮ K͈̮ L͈̮ M͈̮ N͈̮ O͈̮ P͈̮ Q͈̮ R͈̮ S͈̮ T͈̮ U͈̮ V͈̮ W͈̮ X͈̮ Y͈̮ Z͈̮

The ” ͈̮” character acts as a character modifier inserting itself below the character that immediately precedes it. URL encoded, it’s the 8 byte string “CD88CCAE” When put together, it looks like a smiley face – as in below the title of this page. CD88 acts as the eyes and CCAE acts as the mouth. A͈̮ B͈̮ … Read more

Google’s reCAPTCHA Introduces Street Sign Tagging

Rather than selecting all the boxes that contain street signs, Google is introducing a new reCAPTCHA feature to have user’s outline the border of street signs. This new captcha system will certainly be difficult for bots to defeat and it will help add to Google’s understanding of what defines a street sign.

Archive of STORET Data

On 25 Jan 2017, I requested a copy of the entire STORET Data Station Data and Station Results Request was submitted to https://ofmpub.epa.gov/storpubl/dw_pages.querycriteria Used default generic search and “Station Download” to download all stations. Used a search for each state and “Result Download” to download all station information for each state historically. Response: Station Information: Your request … Read more