Awhile back I decided to start using Springpad for bookmarking and notes. It’s worked out pretty well so far. Springpad has various ways of saving stuff; e.g. browser extensions, a bookmark-let, email but I was looking a way to feed stuff from Reader (which I love); i.e. without opening a new window, waiting for the page to load and then finally using either the extension or bookmark-let to save it to Springpad.

“Show, don’t tell” is an ad about some English enrichment class. So instead of saying that John is smart, show how smart he is: John asks thoughtful and insightful questions, solves problems others take awhile to delve into, and so on and so forth. Bonus: George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones version: “Words are wind”. References http://bullythebear.blogspot.sg/2012/12/show-dont-tell.html

Using regedit to remove Images, for e.g., HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Wallpapers

I needed to copy a 140 megabyte file from a Windows 2000 server. The only problem was that it didn’t support FTP (or SFTP) and I couldn’t download FileZilla Server since there was no network connection. I asked my colleague for a quick fix to this, and I can’t recall what he said, but suddenly I remember that I’d RHEL 3 (and Samba) and I could use Windows to map a Samba share.

Learnt something new today. I was using Excel with my keyboard, and was puzzled why pressing the down key scrolled instead of moving (down) to the next cell as I’d expected. So I Googled and found this excellent post. It turns out I’d inadvertently turned on Scroll Lock.

I’ve been thinking about writing a userscript to prevent loading of particular network resources. The problem is that particular FQDNs seem to either be blocked outright, or timeout by this Niometrics thing. This makes for a poor web browsing experience, so I made my own little list: http://*.addthis.com/* http://www.facebook.com/* http://connect.facebook.net/* http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/* http://*.fmpub.net/* https://secure.google-analytics.com/* http://www.google-analytics.com/* http://*.googlesyndication.com/* http://*.pinterest.com/* http://*.sharethis.com/* http://www.stumbleupon.com/* http://platform.tumblr.com/* http://platform.twitter.com/*` The good thing is that wildcard is a supported feature, makes things much less verbose than say a custom hosts file.