When I Grow Up

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Orange Juice

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Another Essay Thing AKA Promotion of Google Calender

I'm an avid user of Google Calender (I usually have a tab open on any computer, as well as syncing to my phone). I have 11 (yes, eleven!!) separate calendars. This might be a little overkill, but I have one for nearly every category I can think of: general things that I "share" with people who need to know my schedule, personal things, work, class schedule, assignments due, bills due, etc...

I love this method so much because I can focus on one calender if I need to, or view them all and get an overview of the whole week. Aside from that, each calender has default settings that can be changed to a variety of things. For example, any time I add something to my "class assignments" calender it automatically creates a couple of reminders, example, email me 3 days ahead of due date and email me the night before (just to make sure it's done :]).

Like I said, it might be a little overkill for some, but for those like me who thrive on visually seeing everything laid out and could use automatic email reminders, I find this method quite helpful.

Win 7 Logon Screen (No Hack) AND Win 7 GodMode

More evidence of how much of a total nerd I am...

Tidbits of geekiness that has turned up today.


"Finally Microsoft has incorporated a new feature in ... Windows 7 which supports the end user to change the logon screen background without using any hacks or third-party tools."

How To Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Easily [Without Using Hacks & Tools]


"“GodMode” ... provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel."

How to Enable Windows 7 GodMode

"Merging" Bookmarks from Separate Firefox Profiles

I recently found myself needing to move a few bookmarks from an old Firefox profile (on an old drive) to a new profile (on the current drive). I didn't want to replace the bookmarks in the new profile, only add to them; nor did I want all of the old bookmarks, only a few significant ones (for which I did not know the URL, nor were they easily Googleable).

Firefox 3+ has switched from storing bookmarks in a fairly easy to navigate html file to now storing them in the places.sqlite file. To manually browse through this file, I found that SQLite Manager works quite well.

I messed with this for a while and didn't have any luck actually extracting the URLs from the sqlite file. After working through a few other self-devised plans, nothing succeeded and I moved on to solving the problem rather than understanding why I was failing. I think what made this difficult was that I didn't want to lose what was, and didn't want all of the old, just to merge the two. Anyway...

Best solution:
I made a backup of the current bookmarks. Imported the last backup of the old bookmarks. Opened the pages I wanted in separate tabs (was only like 10ish). Restored the backup of the "current" bookmarks. Proceeded to bookmark all open tabs and then reorganize as needed.

Solved. ^.^

Many Roles

I play many roles in life.

Contestant
Student
Photographer
Etc...



I'm working on going through, cleaning out junk...

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Facebook silence for a while...

Yay!

It actually is possible to turn off Facebook status comments. I finally figure out how.
For anyone else curious:

Account > Privacy Settings > Customize Settings > Things others share > Can comment on posts > Only me

It's lockdown time...

oh rly?

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

bah!

Strangest Facebook Error

I was attempting to add a photo to one of my facebook albums this morning and it gave the the strangest error. See what you think.

Speaking again of Big Brother

The death of democracy is nearing.
The axe has struck in Sweden.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Sweden-to-allow-emails-snooping.html

Exceptionally Weird

Only moments after posting my most recent post (Big Brother - like 10 min ago), my blog started getting wayyy more hits than normal - and from all over the country.

Strange.

Apparently Big Brother is watching me too...

Big Brother

So, these were posted all over BG this morning (all over = at lest the street I am living on).
I am not sure if this one is big enough to be really readable, but it is rather amusing.

And do not forget...

Big Brother is Watching You!



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Science Q&A

From my ThinkGeek newsletter, the greatest bit of science Q&A I think I have ever read:

Dear Timmy,

When I drink grape juice, and then I go pee, where does all the purple go?

Brandon
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, The blue and green planet


Dear Brandon,

I'm surprised no one has ever talked to you about this before ... what ever are they teaching you in high school biology these days? Basically, the process is very simple. The "purple", as you call it (the technical term would be "tannins"), is processed by your kidneys and broken down into its constituent reds and blues. The reds are injected into your arteries, which is what makes your blood red, and the blues are injected into your veins, which is why your veins appear blue under your skin. What's left over is basically white grape juice, which as we all know is pretty much the right color already.

As a side note, have you ever wondered why the blood in your veins will appear red once its outside your body, even though it was blue when it was under your skin? Well, the answer comes from a branch of physics called optics, which studies things like colors. Red, as it turns out, is water soluble, so the blood absorbs it. Blue, however, floats on top of the blood and ends up coating the inner walls of the veins. When you cut into a vein, only the red actually escapes.

Isn't science wonderful (and sarcastic)?

-- Timmy

Useless Waste of Time

...but I like it anyway.


(click to see the animation :])

Dreamweaver Training

This morning I went to a Dreamweaver Training class. It was more of a short intro, running over some basics. I already knew quite a bit about web publications and had messed with DW some, but it's always the nifty/basic tricks that I miss when I learn things on my own. Now I know a bit more and got paid to be out of the office for several hours :] - who could miss a deal like that?!

back again

Wow. It has been a while since I remembered that this blog existed...
But what a better time to start writing again than now! [Now being a summer full of long, uneventful hours at work with little to occupy my time.]
Great! So, where to begin...

Well, I am exceptionally tired. I usually go home, take a nap for 2-3 hrs, do random things (which usually consists of/includes playing World of Warcraft for an hour or few), and typically still get to bed before midnight; only to wake up exhausted at 7. I don't understand it. Perhaps I am just not getting restful sleep. Humm... perhaps I will try a night on the futon, as it makes a wonderful nap place. :]

I've spent my hours at work (when not working) emailing, chatting, generally surfing, making a database of all the phone numbers I have (need to work on that some more...). I think the next thing on my list of non-work work tasks is to bring in my notebook and update somberlife.

My slyness amuses me, and yet I have to wonder just how obvious I am sometimes. I keep open Dreamweaver on one monitor and the Photo Gallery on the other monitor (yes, I have two monitors - it's great :P), or other "important" looking work tasks. And then on top of that (and/or) somewhere in the background I keep all sorts of other things that I am actually doing. Point in case, on top of Dreamweaver, I currently have a very small WordPad doc open into which I am typing this, and then every paragraph or so, I c&p into [Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab] my Blogger window.
[Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S]

Heh... much ♥ to keyboard shortcuts.

I think I am going to try and find something 'real' to work on for a while...

~S

[Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Tab, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S, Publish Post]