Things you learn that make so much sense you wonder why you didn’t think of it are interesting. I hear people complain all the time that the earbuds that came with their music player or phone don’t fit their ears, and there are actually two affordable solutions out there aside from replacing the earbuds with […]
I have my phones all on the Do-Not-Call list, but there are always those who ignore the law and spam anyway. They tend to do it from the same numbers, and I have added them to my phone’s contact list and associated them with a custom ringtone that is 15 seconds of silence so I […]
Tagged iPhone, SpamThere is a brilliant Oatmeal cartoon about how silly the latest trend at both Facebook and Yahoo of trying to force their users to do something in order to view a completely unrelated thing is: The Oatmeal: State of the Web Scroll down or Jump to a section to the one about Yahoo if it […]
Tagged facebook annoyancesI wanted to know what was the last date of the preceding month to now… regardless of when now is… The UNIX/Linux cal command came to the rescue: cal -3 | cut -c1-16 | grep -v “^ *$” | tail -1 | sed -e ‘s/^..* \([23][0-9]\)/\1/’ It turns out you need a fairly modern version […]
Called A&E Appliance Repair for appliance repair of both a Viking under-counter fridge and a Dacor double oven. Identified both by specific model number and asked if they repaired those models and brands. Walked the A&E dispatcher through the error codes on both devices and the exact model numbers, and asked them to pre-buy the […]
“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” was intense! Gary Oldman never fails to deliver, and neither does Benedict Cumberbatch nor Mark Strong. Excellent casting all around, especially of John Hurt. You have to like a mystery, for there is almost no sex and almost no action; but it is a very suspenseful thriller with stunning acting all […]
We made the announcement at the Winter Gathering, and Erci and I will be less active in La Belle Compagnie for the time being. We’ve been a bit overloaded. We are going downtown to see the Staffordshire Anglo-Saxon Gold Hoard at National Geographic with fellow La Belle members today, and we will still be involved […]
Clearly I have been a little overwhelmed by life lately, and that has been both good and bad… Trivial little updates and one liners are so easy on that mixed blessing/curse of Facebook that I am afraid I have neglected more thoughtful writing here. I will try to catch up a little for those who […]
Years ago I stopped trying to talk friends out of smoking cigarettes, and started trying to talk them into rolling their own so at least they knew what crap was going into the damned things… Now there is a second reason to roll your own: http://boingboing.net/2011/11/27/nyc-sues-roll-your-own-cigaret.html
I noticed a pretty nifty feature of the Airport Utility app on my iOS 5.0.1 based iPad. When I have multiple Apple branded Airport devices wired to the same network, they appear side by side on the Airport Utility’s topology map: When I have one Airport device daisy chained off another, both setting up private […]
Tagged Airport Utiity, iOS, ipad, networks