Innovation when you least expect it.
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Anything not related to any specific subject.
New Theme Available
Aug 31st
I’ve been tinkering around with different themes for WordPress lately. While browsing the database, I came across another theme that fits my specifications: Simplistic, blueish, and has a fixed width and a single sidebar.
The default theme will still be Mystic, but now you’ll also have Simplistic Blue and Webby Blue to choose from.
I have still yet to find a nice, blue based theme, that’s WordPress3 compatible.
Night!
Wallpaper Series: Bokeh Rings
Aug 26th
I’ve created a set of neat wallpapers in Photoshop. I saw a tutorial online for it, and I decided to do it as I needed a boost in my Photoshop skills. I usually work with Fireworks most of the time for web development.
For those of you who don’t know, bokeh is a style of photography that focuses on the forground, while making light sources in the background appear blurry, or more precisely, appear as blurred rings or stars.
The wallpapers are 1920 by 1080 pixels, I may decide to do them in other sizes. For now, just center them.
Water Drops
Aug 15th
I was bored earlier and a rain shower had just passed, so I took my camera out and tried to get a picture of a drop of water landing in a bucket. After about 5 minutes, I managed to get one.
Ram. I has it.
Aug 9th
I was checking out my old laptop yesterday and turned it on for kicks. Surprisingly, it still booted faster than my desktop. I’m keeping it preserved; maybe it will make an artifact one day. An expensive one.
I also had a whopping 449MB left on the massive 1.35 GB hard drive.
“Text Document” missing from the right-click menu?
Aug 5th
If your “Text Document” has disappeared from your right click “New” menu, then this is for you. I had this problem a few days ago so I thought I would share the solution, because it took me a little while to find one that worked. This can be frustrating not to have, especially if you use this feature all the time, like I do.
What you want to do is relax, download this registry file, unzip it, and run it. The changes might not take place until a restart. Mine changed in a few minutes by itself.
You can look in the registry file to see there’s nothing evil in there.
There you go!
Portal Shots
Jul 16th
Portal Shots
First Shot
2/3 shot Gold Tequila
1/3 shot Orange Juice
Second Shot
2/3 shot lime juice or Roses lime
1/3 shot Bol Blue or blue curasou
Directions: Take the first shot, immediately take the second shot.
Your trusted friend in science.
Thanks to: The Drunken Moogle
The Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World
Jul 1st
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are all perfect logicians — if a conclusion can be logically deduced, they will do it instantly. No one knows the color of their eyes. Every night at midnight, a ferry stops at the island. Any islanders who have figured out the color of their own eyes then leave the island, and the rest stay. Everyone can see everyone else at all times and keeps a count of the number of people they see with each eye color (excluding themselves), but they cannot otherwise communicate. Everyone on the island knows all the rules in this paragraph.
On this island there are 100 blue-eyed people, 100 brown-eyed people, and the Guru (she happens to have green eyes). So any given blue-eyed person can see 100 people with brown eyes and 99 people with blue eyes (and one with green), but that does not tell him his own eye color; as far as he knows the totals could be 101 brown and 99 blue. Or 100 brown, 99 blue, and he could have red eyes.
The Guru is allowed to speak once (let’s say at noon), on one day in all their endless years on the island. Standing before the islanders, she says the following:
“I can see someone who has blue eyes.”
Who leaves the island, and on what night?
There are no mirrors or reflecting surfaces, nothing dumb. It is not a trick question, and the answer is logical. It doesn’t depend on tricky wording or anyone lying or guessing, and it doesn’t involve people doing something silly like creating a sign language or doing genetics. The Guru is not making eye contact with anyone in particular; she’s simply saying “I count at least one blue-eyed person on this island who isn’t me.”
The answer is not “no one leaves.” Much care has been taken to make the wording as precise and unambiguous as possible. If you’re confused about anything, please let me know. A word of warning: The answer is not simple. This is an exercise in serious logic, not a lateral thinking riddle. There is not a quick-and-easy answer, and really understanding it takes some effort.
Way to go Dell.
Jun 20th
So I called Dell yesterday and after an…
Wait, let me start over. So I text/chatted with them yesterday asking about the Windows 7 CD that came with my laptop. The computer shipped with 7 Home Premium on it, but they sent a Windows 7 Started Edition CD by mistake. So I want to reinstall the OS, but not via the recovery partition. I look at the CD and say “Oh dear, wrong CD”. So I chatted up tech support where a nice lady (Whom I had to explain the problem three times) said she would send me a copy of the Windows 7 Home Premium CD AS WELL AS a completely new hard drive with it preinstalled. I told her that the CD would suffice, but she was insistent that I took the hard drive as well. (Maybe I’m not smart enough to install it from a CD).
So anyway, the CD is being delivered, as well as a new 320 GB hard drive. This isn’t the first time Dell’s been so giving, by the way. Over the course of the four years I had my old desktop, they replaced the motherboard, CPU, and monitor for free. Its near impossible to get to tech support, but once you’re there, its all good.
Thanks Dell.
Computer Haiku’s
Jun 19th
Software writers are considering replacing the impersonal and unhelpful error messages with Haiku poetry.
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Serious error.
All shortcuts have disappeared.
Screen. Mind. Both are blank.
Your file was so big.
It might be very useful.
But now it is gone.
The Website you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.
With searching comes loss
And the presence of absence:
“My Novel” not found.
A crash reduces
Your expensive computer
To a simple stone.
Three things are certain:
Death, taxes and lost data.
Guess which has occurred.
You step in the stream,
But the water has moved on.
This page is not here.
Out of memory.
We wish to hold the whole sky,
But we never will.
Having been erased,
The document you’re seeking
Must now be retyped.
WordPress 3. It’s so nice.
Jun 18th
It installs with one click from the WordPress 2 interface and I didn’t have to change themes or anything.
Niceness.
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