What To Do When Paper Tape or Band-Aids Pull Your Skin Off

Your skin is sensitive. After every kind of medical procedure ranging from drawing blood to performing surgery your wound is covered using gauze held on by paper tape or some kind of Band-Aid. Eventually the wound heals and now comes the time to remove the tape. Some people are allergic to the glue in the tape. When the tape is removed it can pull off the skin leaving at least a “burn” and a most a deep groove that horribly hurts and takes weeks to heal. Fortunately there is a solution: Mepilex Border Lite Foam Dressings.

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Review of the HamTestOnline (HTO) Ham Radio Exam Courses

HamTestOnline (HTO) helps you learn more than required to earn your licenses in less time than every other method. HTO does it by maximizing your learning. That unique feature defines its super-power differentiating itself from every other approach.

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The System That Inspired All Of Us Through Emacs

They say that Emacs was inspired by real LISP machines from Symbolics and more. Here are two of those Symbolics machines for sale on eBay:

A Mac with a LISP machine inside of it is pretty cool.

Making Sense of git-flow

Vincent’s Git workflow is powerful and simple. So it is the best one for most of us. When you tell somebody that you aren’t using it then they expect a pretty convincing explanation why not. There isn’t much to make sense of really.

gitflow-avh is the easiest way to use it. I tried doing it manually but it is easier to use the plugin. Here are some of the differences if you want compare the plugin with doing it manually. It is worth trying out manually if you want to appreciate the plugin, maybe.

This and this cheat-sheet aren’t all you need to know but they are a fine start.