Reading time: < 1 min ShortPopUp – sometimes you just find a piece of software, something simple, that does exactly what you’ve been looking for since, well since Windows 95. Display the contents of a folder from the taskbar (including the ability to filter the list). Simple and allows me to pull my playlists from my ‘Music’ directory, fire up…
Reading time: < 1 min Quote a day gives me a little brain food now and then, until of course, it serves up something like this: “Work banishes those three great evils, boredom, vice and poverty.” Francois Voltaire – Candide Which, in my current state of mind, prompts me to think, boredom and vice or work? hmmm touchy one that.…
Reading time: < 1 min A tragedy of errors. I was eight years old, but remember when this happened. I obviously wasn’t hot on politics and foreign policy, and remember the teacher showing us where the Falklands were. The past few days have been interesting for me, to re-visit and re-educate myself about an event which had almost no impact…
Reading time: < 1 min All the April Fools. I missed about 80% of these, but there’s a lot of work gone into them, all for one day. And I thought I wasted my time 😉
Reading time: < 1 min speakeasy. Cranky? Or just voicing an opinion? Caterina makes me think – again. A suggested tagline: “Well read”. 100 words (via Julie) – harder than it sounds, but fascinating reading. Another read added to the Wishlist. Prompted by this article, the book should be an interesting read: Into the Buzzsaw.
Reading time: < 1 min Job applicants ‘quiet’ on mental problems. I’m obviously not going to go into this too deeply as I’m not ‘out’ at work, but interesting reading although the statistics do seem to lean towards the ‘heavier’ side of mental illness – manic depression and schizophrenia. I’m not sure what it is about this article that doesn’t…