Right, I'm determined to get a post in before the end of January - even if it exposes my deep lack of understanding of the Gregorian solar calendar (and indeed hints at my naked state of nescience concerning many other aspects of the basic mechanics of our world).
Here's how the problem started: 52 x 7 = 364. Ok, no, wait. A step even further back...
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What's your email address Sharkie?! Far out....
Send an email to mrspeaker@gmail.com with a subject line that begins with sms (and a space), and the remainder of the subject line will be delivered to my mobile phone as a text message. Go on... give it a try... Yep, it worked. Pretty nifty hey? Ok, Ok, just one message is fine, thanks. Jeeez.
Want this service for yourself? Read on!
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While flicking casually through various shoutcast TV streams today, I came to focus my attention on an old documentary about computers, or offices, or machines, or office workers, or computerised office workers, or something.
It was pretty good.
Anyhoo, I think it was called "The Secret Life of Offices", or "The Secret Life of Computerised Office Workers" or something.
Being the ever-resourceful one, I thought I'd look it up on the local library catalogue to see if they held a copy.
I typed "secret life of" into the title search.
The returned result set detailed a shocking titling conspiracy, revealing once and for all: the secret life of The Secret Life Of...
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I've mentioned "spinner" on this page a bunch of times - I hope that's what they are called... "little animated-gif indicator AJAX thingos" doesn't sound quite right.
Anyway, just thought I'd mention this "issue" I've noticed quite a bit with people implementing spinners like so:
This is hunky dory - but accounts poorly for us wise folk using the no-script extension.
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Talented people. God I hate them. How dare they sit around making our meagre accomplishments look meagre? Well, they dare. They dare.
Case in point: Graffiti Wall for Facebook. It provides you with a skeleton tool set - a colour picker, a brush size selector, an opacity selector, and 152592 pixels on which to use them...Not much you can do with that, right?
Well, let me tell you, people... are... freaks. Yeah thanks guys. Way to take the fun out of it.
So what can one do if one is filled with artistic desire, yet has the drawing skills of Ken Done? Is the answer to take a drawing class at the local TAFE, read up on techniques, watch instructional YouTube videos, and practice 1 hour everyday?
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Ahh, Three-Letter Acronyms: Time savers, confusion makers, sources of eternal annoyance. TLAs make managers feel competent, and let imaginative people enter rude words on high-score tables. But what makes a great TLA? What makes one stick? Why does BPM roll off the tongue, while QWJ makes you feel a bit sick? In an effort to find out, I have undertaken an exhaustive, or at least quite tiring, exploration into the TLA.
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Awwww yeeeeaahh booooooyyy... APEC Sound System in full effect - Asia-Pacific Economic Crew gunna rock it! A week of Sydney tour dates, culminating in a massive heads-of-state break-off in full gang colours. Should be awesome!
As part of the tour Mix-Master Johnny H has organised for a banging sound system to be set up throughout the city.
They haven't started cranking tunes out yet - though apparently there was some freakin' loud glitch-noise samples pumping out earlier - hopefully a sign of things to come!
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Here's a helpful little mouse-wielding tip for all you Windows users out there (Oops, "mouse" and "Windows" - there goes my geek cred.)... Did you know that you can vertically select text in some programs? Well you can, with the power of ALT + mouse!
Selecting text with a mouse is a very important computer-user skill, that enables you to capture parts of a paragraph or sentence for use in other applications.
But what if, right, you wanted to extract just the messages from the text below, and paste them somewhere else:
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