Hard-to-find tips on otherwise easy-to-do tasks involving everyday technology, with some advanced insight on history and culture thrown in. Brought to you by a master dabbler. T-S T-S's mission is to boost your competitiveness with every visit. This blog is committed to the elimination of the rat from the tree of evolution and the crust of the earth.
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
What? M$ Magic - Or is it Chrome?
Monday, July 18, 2016
Hurrah for Satya! Finally, Any Colour Highlighting!!!! Yay!
Snipping tool can't do it. Screw it!
Powerpoint can!!
We'd like to think it's because of getting an Indian the top job, but in our hearts, we know it's in spite of an Indian in the top job :)
Just kidding boys. Enjoy the better docs. Convey ideas to your team in a jiffy.
Why accessorize when you can iconize?
Saturday, July 09, 2016
Congratulations Gregory David Roberts
suborn : bribe or otherwise influence someone to commit an unlawful act such as perjury
defile : a steep-sided, narrow gorge or passage (originally one requiring troops to march in single file).
architrave : the molded frame around a doorway or window
curlicue : a decorative curl or twist in calligraphy or in the design of an object
quoin : an external angle of a wall or building
sibilant : (of a speech sound) sounded with a hissing effect, for example s, sh.
condolent : feeling or expressing sorrow
ontology : the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being
apodictic : clearly established or beyond dispute
gibbous : convex or protuberant
rictal : relating to the gap or cleft of an open mouth or beak
supernatant : denoting the liquid lying above a solid residue after crystallization, precipitation, centrifugation, or other process.
sybaritic : fond of sensuous luxury or pleasure; self-indulgent
syzgygy : a conjunction or opposition, especially of the moon with the sun.
faronade :
vicinal : neighboring; adjacent
The World Class Brain : Simon Ramo
Got 2 PhD's by the age of 23. Accumulated 25 patents before his 30th birthday. Did aerospace stuff and also developed GE's electron microscope.
Man, what would I not give... and he lived to be 103 too.. The father of the ICBM. Got to work with John von Neumann as well..
Aus Heute's Journal : Yona Goldrich
There he built a real e empire.
"I don't tell you if you do a good job - because that's what I hired you for. I only tell you if you do a bad job."
"I'd rather not be a deal that would make me money than be in a deal that will lose me money."
"Don't tell me how much this deal will make me. Tell me how much I can lose."
Friday, July 08, 2016
Magic : How Does Codecademy Provide a Linux Terminal In a Web Browser
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19561188/simulating-linux-terminal-in-browser
As someone once plagiarized from me, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."