Word bug of the day
Choose a point in a paragraph and put the caret there. Type delete three times. Count how many times you need to hit backspace before a backspace actually occurs. I count four.
Choose a point in a paragraph and put the caret there. Type delete three times. Count how many times you need to hit backspace before a backspace actually occurs. I count four.
I don’t hold with most mystical philosophy nonsense, but every now and again I see something that makes sense:
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
Why? Because it is very true and I wish I’d understood this earlier (see Mr Russell’s observation too).
At least that’s the user pic I chose at random on my work iMac.
Although it wasn’t obvious that this why an orange appeared at the top of my emails in Mail – no tool-tip or anything.
“Broadly speaking, it is held that getting money is good and spending money is bad. Seeing that they are two sides of one transaction, this is absurd; one might as well maintain that keys are good, but keyholes are bad. Whatever merit there may be in the production of goods must be entirely derivative from the advantage to be obtained by consuming them.”
–Bertrand Russell
Ultimate Mac Geekiness – read at your productivity’s peril.I was looking through my bookmarks menu today and caught myself worrying about how long I’d had the menu dragged down. Why? Because in the years before modern operating systems there was a thing called co-operative multitasking (as opposed to pre-emptive multitasking which is used on most systems now) and one way of crashing another application or screwing up a disk burn or interrupting a track playing was to hold a menu open long enough that the other application needed process time. I must have only encountered this a couple of times in the whole of my use of these operating systems, but to this day I find I don’t like holding menus down for long periods.
The only interaction available in the radio of the past was choosing the time and station that you wanted to listen to.The internet is fully interactive though: so instead of choosing a station, choose the actual music you want, whenever you want. Traditional radio was supported by adverts, the DJ made announcements. This is already in place with Spotify. Suggestions for new music are available, but we can _choose_ to ignore them if we want. However, people like their stand-alone systems – I wonder who could make those? There’s one big problem though: will Spotify actually stick around?
