Nathan Zachary

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Understanding of geography? Not for Exxon Mobil.

Well, sometimes there is a mistake so blatantly obvious on a website that it just has to be shared with others. I was looking at the Material Safety Data Sheets from Exxon Mobil (don’t ask; I was just interested in seeing the white paper on Mobil jet oil), and I noticed something rather strange in …

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2015 Superheroes Race for the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) in Huntsville, AL

The weekend of Saturday, April 11, my best friend and I made the drive down to Huntsville, Alabama to participate in the 2015 Superheroes Race benefiting the outstanding organisation that is The National Children’s Advocacy Center. It was a bit of a drive, but almost completely motorway, so it wasn’t that bad. Before talking about …

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CyanogenMod com.android.phone crashing – an unlikely APN fix for the NullPointerException in the telephony stack

Currently, I have a T-Mobile branded Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-M919) and until this past weekend I was running CyanogenMod 11 (the M9 snapshot) on it. I was having one minor problem with it, and that was that all-too-often the artist and track information from my music stream would not be sent via Bluetooth. I hadn’t …

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