Random¶
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With my current URL naming scheme I can have a post called 'Random' each month. I should make use of that.
- A 'C-list' blogger will write a rant and call it a rant. An 'A-list' blogger will write a rant, convert the links into inconvenient footnotes, and call it a 'paper'.
- Nice Dogbert themed Dilbert the other day.
- How is metadata going to have a future if simple FTP copying operations destroy my file creation dates?
- Just compare the gauges for Airport signal strength in the picture below. Is signal strength around 25% or rather around 50% of the maximum possible? Perhaps the gauge used in the Airport menu is poorly designed because it may suggest that the area coloured dark is important rather than the number of circle segments. Linear vs. quadratic.
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- Björn and me put up our kitchen cupboards today. Let's say we aren't very good or experienced at it. But it only showed in one place – where despite our careful measurements there is a 1cm gap between cupboards now :(
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Saying of the day:
A real man must be able to handle both a power drill and a vacuum cleaner.
- I also installed a socket at the end of some loose wires without electrocuting myself. (But with making a precautionary phone call on how to use that phase checking screwdriver.
- We pay for our cable TV and there are three shopping channels. Who would want these?
- My brother put up some photos of our recent trip, using the MT account and wonderful subdomain bratwurst.earthlingsoft.net that I set up for him.
- He also sent around an e-mail announcing his new e-mail address by putting everybody he knows into the 'To:' field.
- We need to find an affordable used washing machine. Soon.
