For all of you still trying to find jobs. Have a read, and a laugh.
Even better, rap it out loud :D
Warning: contains swearing (obviously)
Cheezburger.com - Crafted from the finest Internets.
Source: Pull on a Hoodie and Rap Along to an Unemployed Man’s Genius - Cheezburger
Photoshopping is normally frowned upon for making things “fake”, but sometimes, it can provide really nice sentimental value to pictures…
Source: Woman finds a stunning way to include late husband in maternity photos
As with all writers - myself included, we are prone to going back and changing something I… (backspace, backspace, backspace…) we write. With this website, if you stop typing for an extended period, everything is deleted. This stops you going back and changing things, and encourages words to flow, without hindrance. It’s dangerous, but also allows you to be creative.
Give it a try, but don’t do your essay on it, unless you know you can flow your ideas :D
The blank page is a common, intimidating hurdle for writers. Sometimes it helps to just start typing your first draft, allowing words to flow without over-thinking them. This app will help you do just that, namely because if you don’t, it will delete any and all of your progress.
Source: “The Most Dangerous Writing App” Destroys Your Progress if You Stop Typing
It doesn’t matter, whether you have 100 or 1,000,000 good reviews. The 50 negative reviews will be the ones most people will remember. Losing customers destroys the revenue stream that would have been there for who knows how long.
Moonpig made a mistake here and are paying the price. And will continue to pay the price for the foreseeable future. People like me who look at this and wonder “am I willing to depend on this company to deliver on time?” So not only have they lost customers, they will lose potential customers.
Fortunately, this year I didn’t depend on Moonpig. I relied on Interflora, a company who has been around for longer than Moonpig and proven their worth over many years. Last time I ordered flowers from them, the local florist delivered it personally (no Yodel, no Parcelforce, no DHL).
This year, I took it up a notch. A bigger bundle of flowers, a box of chocolates and a bottle of Rose wine. The box was a lot bigger, so a different florist delivered it this time. I could see his van bouncing around my area as he delivered his goods. The flowers were great, just as the picture. Wine was chilled, and chocolates – well, we haven’t had them yet. ^_^
Two years they haven’t failed me. If I need flowers, I’m going to Interflora. Not Moonpig - even if they were cheaper.
Greeting card and gift firm bombarded with complaints on social media as customers post pictures of wilted leaves, smashed vase and empty box
Source: Moonpig Mother’s Day disaster: Customers' anger at wilted bouquets and late deliveries - Telegraph
A good starting point to deciding if you indulge in a McDs, how much time you’ll need to spend burning it off..
You’re hungry, and you’re in a hurry – so you grab a burger, a taco, or a burrito. But before you take a bite, think about it: You’ll need to exercise a lot to burn off those calories. Even the options that seem light – the smaller burger, the breakfast sandwich, the wrap – are more fattening than you might think.So how much havoc can a fast food meal wreak on your otherwise healthy diet? We’ve crunched the numbers, compiled the calorie counts, and even created a simple interactive calculator so you find out exactly how much exercise it would take for you to work off each meal. Here’s to making healthy choices!
Source: Your Fast Food Workout Plan
When you take the same train each day, you recognise the same people. What’s spooky is when you know what seat they’re going to take before they even get on.
One such person happens to get on at the same station as me, and get off to change lines at the same stop, and use the same lines, and get off at the same station as me.
This morning I found him in the same coffee shop as me.
Next thing I’ll probably find he works in the same building as me :/
When you take the same train each day, you notice things….
Source: Spotify is moving its data to Google Cloud Platform
So I updated my S5 to Android 6.0.1 using Cyanogenmod, and I’ve noticed some slight lagging. Apps tend to close themselves randomly, normally when less apps are running than on Android 5.1.1. Also, when using the tethered connection, there’s some lag there too, causing my online games to judder. Though that part is only hypothetical, I’m going to test this by downgrading my phone back to 5.1 and verifying whether there’s lag on my connection there. If there isn’t, I’ll report this as a bug.
Nikita Kamaev resigned from Rusada in November after doping scandal engulfed Russian athletics
Source: Former head of Russian anti-doping agency ‘dies of heart attack’ - Telegraph
Am I the only one who is the slightest bit suspicious by this convenient “heart attack” - just a couple of months after he resigned and soon after the scandal really took hold?
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This video took the maker a year to create, but boy is it good :)
Check out his other videos.
As you might know already, Swiftkey is going to be bought by Microsoft. And suspiciously, this morning I found an update to Swiftkey. But it keeps failing to install. The other 6 updates installed fine. Just Swiftkey refuses to update. Suspicious? Or just coincidence?
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Millions of people are heading home for Chinese New Year, the country's biggest migration period, causing travel chaos..
But in China one lucky woman enjoyed a “rockstar” moment after being the only passenger to turn up for a China Southern Airlines flight from Wutan to Guangzhou.
Source: Chinese New Year rush: Woman has ‘rockstar’ treatment as sole plane passenger - Telegraph
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Source: Meetings Are Dense - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-01-26 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
AND I HATED IT.
It won’t boot ISOs unless you hdiutil it, which is an Apple propriety tool, or the ISO has been EFI enabled already, and since it’s not open source, I can’t even do that beforehand.
The Macbook won’t work with a known good HDMI cable (which I use with a Desktop PC), unless it’s Apple branded - which Apple being Apple, isn’t the least bit surprising…
I’ve tripped over their power supply more than once, and putting it at the plug end make it bulky and ugly.
My first course of action with regards to the setup? Trash MacOS and install Ubuntu. Of course, Apple make things endlessly difficult – I had to hdiutil the Ubuntu ISO to make it bootable, then install Ubuntu. After which, the Macbook wouldn’t boot.
Thanks to the install guide at Linux Mint:
community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/…
I found out I had to fiddle with the efibootmgr tool to change the boot order, and it works fine now. But then I had to figure out how to right-click on a no-button mouse touchpad. The hack is found on the Debian site (look at the mouseeemu post at the bottom). So now I have a clickable touchpad, with right-click being “ctrl+click”
Out of things to try for dinner? How about trying what they used to eat in the 50s?
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Further to my previous post, here’s a run down of what happened.
I’m currently running Cyanogenmod or a variant of it, which has lots of nightly builds - normally I choose not to flash but on Sunday, I decided to try. Probably a mistake.
Cyanogen updated from Android 5 Lollipop to Android 6 Marshmallow, which meant after I flashed, I was getting huge numbers of “sorry but xxxx crashed”. I suspected the Gapps was out of date or incompatible with the android version I had, and I was right - a different version was needed. So I flashed that also but that didn’t work, so I rolled back to my last good backup, which was from November 2015, that restored fine, and I’m back to where I was, minus a lot of app changes and updates needed (I uninstalled/reinstalled a lot of apps since that backup), fixed that, reupdated my apps, and redid both my app and my Nandroid backups so I’m good to try again sometime.
I lost a good hour to two hours over this, so let this be a reminder to make sure you have good backups before flashing. I was lucky I only lost 2.5 months of changes, and that was easily fixed, but losing ALL your data because you don’t have a backup is never fun (I’ve been there)
As someone who’s tried Google Cardboard, I am pretty keen to see this happening.
FOR ALL THERE is to love about Google Cardboard, it’s still a bare-bones experience. It’s barely even VR, really. But the cheap, smartphone-based viewer offers the VR-curious an easy window into 360-degree video. Pricier headsets like the Oculus Rift and Sony PlayStation VR, designed for gaming, deliver more than a cool stereoscopic viewing experience. In addition to the immersive visual eye-candy—users can explore virtual spaces, peek around corners, and, using hand-held controllers, interact with digital objects—these sophisticated VR rigs offer truly lifelike audio.When a monster sneaks up on your left in a VR game, you’ll hear its slobbering tongue lashing at your left ear. When a shot comes at you from above you and slightly to the right, you know exactly where to return fire. When The Edge tears through the opening riff of “Mysterious Ways,” it reverberates around the stadium.
The high-priced headsets from Oculus, Sony, and HTC pack the processing punch to deliver “spatially oriented” audio experiences that consider direction, distance, and environmental factors when creating the soundtrack. Cardboard, powered by your smartphone, can’t do that yet. But earlier this week, the Cardboard team made it a little easier to give the audio in these apps a bit more realism. Asthis blog post from Google Cardboard product manager Nathan Martz outlines, the Cardboard software development kit for Android and the Unity game engine now support spatial audio. This platform update paves the way for Google Cardboard to become something more than a gateway drug to true VR.
Source: Why Spatial Audio Is Such a Big Deal for Google Cardboard | WIRED
Tried to flash my phone over the weekend – failed miserably and I had to restore from my backup in November. Which meant a lost a lot of settings and apps :(
I really need to keep my backups up to date :/
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 3.29 km in 22m:42s.
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Had been snowing last night, so a slow careful run today.
健毅 黃 was out running. He tracked 3.29 km in 22m:19s.
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Haven’t done much posting and not much running recently, weather being cold so when I finally do run, it’s usually a relatively short distance. Will need to re-work on that :/
