Character-level diff in git gui

Per-character differences are often more usable than line-level differences.¹ WinMerge has pretty decent character-scoped diffing:

...but git gui  defaults to line-level "unified diff":

To get word-level diff, you can specify:

--color-words --word-diff

...but I want something closer to character-level diff.

Talk: Silicon Carbide and Body-Machine Interfaces

Here are my notes from Dr. Stephen E. Saddow's presentation, "Silicon Carbide Biomedical Technology for Bone Implants, Stents and Brain-Machine Interfaces".

Electrical Engineering Department
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology
University of South Florida

Abstract: Amorphous silicon carbide (SiC) has been used for several years as a non-biofouling coating in biomedical devices such as coronary stents and bone implants. However, up to recently, the biocompatibility of single crystal SiC, which presents appealing bio-sensing potentialities, has been in question. A comprehensive study of the biocompatibility of this wide band-gap semiconductor has been performed with extremely promising results which show the higher performance of SiC in bio-environments with respect to Si, the leading semiconductor, and introduce SiC into a unique class of materials that is both bio- and hemocompatible. 

Project reference strictness in Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2008 happily allows you to reference .NET 3.5-dependent projects from a project that targets .NET framework 2.0—because the CLR version is the same for both frameworks. On the contrary, Visual Studio 2010 refuses to build such a solution, perhaps out of a desire to enforce Best Practices For Creating Reliable Builds, and gives missing namespace errors:

The name 'FooTools' does not exist in the current context

and warnings such as:

The primary reference "System.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" could not be resolved because it has an indirect dependency on the framework assembly "System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" which could not be resolved in the currently targeted framework. ".NETFramework,Version=v2.0". To resolve this problem, either remove the reference "System.Web.Extensions.Design, Version=1.0.61025.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" or retarget your application to a framework version which contains "System.Xml.Linq, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089".

Why write a blog?

It is a question that you will face, should you deign to start a blog (or column, journal, etc.).

EUTHYPHRO: Why do you have a blog?

YOU: Because it exercises my urchin mind and I want to share my meager kibbles of knowledge with SearchEngineGod.

Weak answer. Too cliché. We must find a better answer.

The Holographic Principle

I have been reading about and attempting to discuss the holographic principle, a conjecture in theoretical physics that the three-dimensional universe is a projection of a two-dimensional (i.e., surface area) encoding¹. This would imply that all the particles and properties and everything of our universe may be compressed substantially without losing information: reality is just a very large bitmap. The theory also could explain certain surprising properties of the universe, such as the discrete (i.e., quantum) nature² of physics, the origin of gravity, and information density.