Easy Color to Grayscale Online Converter

http://online.puzzleflow.com/process/all2gray

What makes a good engineering culture?

A great answer on quora.

Software Engineering is the Art of Fighting

"software engineering is the art of fighting with exponentially increasing complexity of solutions" Dima Korolev

Japanese Characters in my Firefox Search Bar

Sometimes I accidentally do a keyboard combination that activates Japanese or some other Asian language in the search bar of Firefox.  The easiest solution is to just restart the browser and you can again type in English characters again

Hot Water Circulation Pump

This is a hot water circulator pump.  It was making noise in our house a few months ago.  It circulates the hot water through the pipes so it does not take as long for the hot water to get there.

Free Video Dub

Free Video Dub is a great program for simple video editing.  I used it to edit a mov file in place.  It is free ware.  Just be careful when installing.  Choose the custom install and uncheck all the browser plugins and other additional software you may not want.

f.lux

f.lux is a program that will dim your display for night time viewing.  It is better than the "Adjust screen brightness" setting in Windows 7 for laptops. You can use Alt+PgDn or Alt+PgUp to dim or brighten the display beyond your daily setting and then it returns to its regular brightness in the morning.

Here are some other keyboard short cuts