If you’ve set up IMAP access to Gmail in Outlook, you may have noticed that using flags in Outlook and stars in Gmail creates a duplicate set of tasks in your sidebar. The How-To Geek shows you how to fix that distraction, using a little creative filtering. The trick can be extended to multiple email [...]
Adding another stop on the Dave Letterman Show, she proved that a dumb act never seems to tire out.
US Magazine says, “I tried to help her get it back for, like, a year,” Montag said on the Late Show With David Letterman Wednesday. “I was like, ‘You gotta get it back, you gotta do something [...]
By Paul Proctor'Cat spraying' is when a domestic cat will soil its house to mark its territory by backing into furniture or any household item and release a pungent spray. Approximately 40% of all soiling complaints are made of such instances. Females cats will sometimes do it when they are in heat, but generally it is mostly un-neutured male tom cats.Cats spray for a variety of reasons. They spray during territorial disputes, when they are aware of another cat in heat, when stressed and often after fights with other cats. So the cats, normally solitary creatures, mark their territory as a way to reduce conflicts with other cats in the area. Mostly cats will spray outside, but if there are conflicts within the home, they will spray inside as well.When a cat "sprays" an object, the spray re
Boon:Oh, my! What would parents today do to keep sanity in the car on long trips without the car DVD player? With young kids, especially, who are locked up in their seats and can't roam about the car like we did as kids (tell I'm not the only one who lived on the floorboard or in the space behind the back seat and rear window as a kid). It is truly a God-sent blessing to be able to pop in any old movie and watch the kids be entertained for hours; the peace it brings to the car is amazing!Annoyance:Oh, my! Are these car DVD players good for anything? The first thing it does is give your child a sense of entitlement. It's as if the moment they are strapped into their seat they deserve to be entertained with a movie - even if the trip is only five minutes down the road. (Granted, here
Researchers have discovered that annoyance can be bad for your health. When annoyance levels are high, sufferers are more than usually prone to weight gain, heart attack, compulsive behaviour, and psychosis. As a result of these findings, doctors have developed a simple test to determine whether the annoyances in their patients' lives have reached toxic levels. Take this test to see if the
The evil School Faerie decided she wanted to be quite the little pest today. I just saw an email for my British Canon class saying that my TA wants everyone to have a full, six-page first draft of our final essays for the course by tomorrow for class (11:00 AM). I find that rather annoying. The email was sent on the 17th, but it still seems rather ridiculous for me to write a rough draft. I understand that for some people rough drafts (for essays) is really helpful. It's not for me. It never has been. That's not to say I'm smarter than other people, it just means I use a different process. I don't write good essays when I think ahead. And to be honest, when I write this essay and do this draft, I'll likely not touch it again until the day before the real essay is due. I don't lik
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Are you sick of excessive biting, barking, whining, etc?
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So I was reading this article on IMNewsWatch.com about this new so called innovation. It is another form of advertising which is similar to PPC (pay per click) but this new system plays a 5 second audio-mercial. It is funny because I also received a couple emails about this new system asking to join and test out the system - with referral links ofcourse.
Ok so about this PayPerPlay thing - I was reading the landing page and found it to be a pretty bad idea. This PPP idea is made by NetAudioAds. It plays a small snippet of audio-mercial once a page loads for about 5 seconds. Do they give the option of pressing play to hear the audio, right now I think it does it on autoplay and I know that will be very annoying really fast.
NetAudioAdsâ„¢ Pay-Per-Play (PPP) advertising is an advertising channel that is set to take the web by storm. Because of the size and scope of this deal (backed by one of the BIG 5 search engines), PPP advertising will become a world wide business media event.
PPP wo
Ding! Ding! Ding! This is what the office has been hearing a lot lately! Why, you may ask! Because Ted thought it would be fun to hang a bell on the wall and have the sales people ring it EVERYTIME a deal was closed! While us sales people think this is fun, the other team members aren't so thrilled :(The sales team has been working very hard with advertisers to help make this month the biggest month ever. Today, we received a package from Ted (he is out of town) to help motivate us!Be on the lookout for many new opportunities in our marketplace, as we have MANY campaigns in the works!
Ding! Ding! Ding! This is what the office has been hearing a lot lately! Why, you may ask! Because Ted thought it would be fun to hang a bell on the wall and have the sales people ring it EVERYTIME a deal was closed! While us sales people think this is fun, the other team members aren't so thrilled :(The sales team has been working very hard with advertisers to help make this month the biggest month ever. Today, we received a package from Ted (he is out of town) to help motivate us!Be on the lookout for many new opportunities in our marketplace, as we have MANY campaigns in the works!
From 24 hours: "Try not to fight back......If you are burdened by annoyances, you will lose your inward peace and the spirit of G-d will be shut out".Yesterday I was listening to a shiur which quoted the Gra' about how to deal with anger. "If you respond to someone else's anger with a retort, you will only make the situation worse by egging on the other person even more", the speaker said. He took his words from the ways that Yaakov responded to Lavan and to Eisav.So how does this affect my own life? I've noticed that when I jump at people (even if they "started it"), their automatic response is to cringe- well, who wouldn't?I also need to realize that if someone else is angry, they might have a valid reason. In this case, I need to step back and do a min- 10th step;Did I do something wrong that angered them?And I need to think- does responding with a retort do anything to heal our relationship, or does it merely, as the Gra suggests, just get them angrier?And what are these "annoy
Today I noticed a funny little bug in one of the Google software. No, I won't tell you which bug that made me die laughing. It's not important. Really. Anyway, first thing that crossed my mind was to report it to Mr. Google Help bot. Suddenly, I remember why I don't want to report bugs [...]
If you’ve used Ubuntu Linux for longer than a month, you’ve no doubt realized that every 30 times you boot up you are forced to run a filesystem check. This filesystem check is necessary in order to keep your filesystem healthy. Some people advise turning the check off completely, but that is generally not a recommended solution. Another solution is to increase the number of maximum mounts from 30 to some larger number like 100. That way it’s about 3 times less annoying. But this solution is also not recommended. Enter AutoFsck.
AutoFsck is a set of scripts that replaces the file system check script that comes shipped with Ubuntu. The difference is that AutoFsck doesn’t ruin your day if you are so unfortunate to encounter the 30th mount. The most important difference is that AutoFsck does its dirty work when you shut your computer down, not during boot when you need your computer the most!
The 30th time you mount your filesystem, AutoFsck will wait until you shu
There is no excuse for this one. If you have a large website with dozens or hundreds of pages, give me an internal search box to find what I need.
We are all getting used to the search being a given feature, in fact Joomla sites come with this as standard.
Google and Yahoo! and many others will give you the tool - free - to put on your site.
Use it.
There is no excuse for this one. If you have a large website with dozens or hundreds of pages, give me an internal search box to find what I need.
We are all getting used to the search being a given feature, in fact Joomla sites come with this as standard.
Google and Yahoo! and many others will give you the tool - free - to put on your site.
Use it.
Web designers and Webmasters prefer dazzle over function. Function is boring. Who wants a simple text link when a pop up Javascript navigation bar impresses the client?
I do. So do the search engines. So do more and more of your web savvy clients.
Every web page needs recognizable, underlined text links on every page, preferably top and bottom.
Don't make me or your possible guests waste time
Web designers and Webmasters prefer dazzle over function. Function is boring. Who wants a simple text link when a pop up Javascript navigation bar impresses the client?
I do. So do the search engines. So do more and more of your web savvy clients.
Every web page needs recognizable, underlined text links on every page, preferably top and bottom.
Don't make me or your possible guests waste time
Poor contact information is a close twin of bad navigation. How many sites have you been to where you cannot find a phone number, a street address, or even an email address? Plenty.
I think it's sweet that you put up an email contact form on your site, but I prefer to use my default email compose screen. Every web-based email form is different. I don't want to waste time learning to use your
Poor contact information is a close twin of bad navigation. How many sites have you been to where you cannot find a phone number, a street address, or even an email address? Plenty.
I think it's sweet that you put up an email contact form on your site, but I prefer to use my default email compose screen. Every web-based email form is different. I don't want to waste time learning to use your
(The graphic on the left is from Ken Brown and is one of his stamps called, Fingers in Ears. If we all went around with our fingers in our ears, I guess we wouldn't know if someone was irritable and annoyed or not. It's something to consider.)From yesterday's comments, I guess that some people go through the irritable and annoyed phase and others don't. In my case, hypomanias actually consist of three phases.Phase 1: Increased energy. A extraordinary feeling of happiness with myself and the world. A very loving feeling towards the people I care about. An uncommon ability to get things done. A huge burst of energy from the moment I awaken until I go to bed. An expanded ability to multi-task. An organizational acuity that is second to none. A willingness to engage with people. A desire to spend more time with people I care about--and even those I don't. I've written about this in earlier posts so I won't dwell on it here.Phase 2: Increased irritability and annoyance. During
Before I post today, I would like to thank the following people for their responses to my last posting: daryl darko, Micky, Marja, Terry, Gay Bipolar Guy, Cindy, Marie, and Carrie. I greatly appreciate your comments and concern.I think that one of the downsides of hypomania that we don't know enough about is the irritability and annoyance phase. I finally realized that I haven't been mildly depressed for the last few weeks: rather, I've been irritable and easily annoyed.Why is that? Perhaps together we can figure it out.Do you have these periods? When do you get them? Is it after or during hypomanic episodes? Do you suddenly feel that perhaps you've been giving too much and getting too little? Does something switch inside you? When do you realize that the pleasure of helping others has faded and you have needs you'd like someone else to fulfill?Do you ever think: I've been there for others. Who is there for me? Who is going to buoy me up when I feel a bit down? Who is
One huge advantage of the web is the ability of bloggers and other Drudge wannabes to bypass traditional media and post news online instantly.
If you have not updated your website in 14 months, what does that tell me about your company. Certainly, you are less than a cutting edge company.
There just is NO excuse nowadays. Even if you are on dial-up, you can email news to publish a blog. In
One huge advantage of the web is the ability of bloggers and other Drudge wannabes to bypass traditional media and post news online instantly.
If you have not updated your website in 14 months, what does that tell me about your company. Certainly, you are less than a cutting edge company.
There just is NO excuse nowadays. Even if you are on dial-up, you can email news to publish a blog. In
If I have to wait more than 4 or 5 seconds to begin viewing your site, I am gone - never to return.
If your servers are slow, find a new ISP.
If you loaded your pages with Flash, MIDI, audio, video, or other files that load with the page, dump them.
Put up links instead.
Let the visitor choose if they want to read or watch the video.
If I have to wait more than 4 or 5 seconds to begin viewing your site, I am gone - never to return.
If your servers are slow, find a new ISP.
If you loaded your pages with Flash, MIDI, audio, video, or other files that load with the page, dump them.
Put up links instead.
Let the visitor choose if they want to read or watch the video.
I don't want a website to dictate how I experience their site. I am a guest on your site. I don't need to come back to your page when I hit the back button. That's why I hit the back button in the first place. You don't have the information I am looking for.
In a similar vein, I don't like to see other right click functions like "view page source" disabled. I don't need to steal your HTML code,
Some sites think their bytes don't stink. They think you should register and login to see anything beyond the home page.
What they are doing is asking me to get married before the first date. What's in it for me?
In this Internet day and age, a company and site has to build trust before a random visitor is going to cough up a name and email address.
Show me a little leg first...
Some sites think their bytes don't stink. They think you should register and login to see anything beyond the home page.
What they are doing is asking me to get married before the first date. What's in it for me?
In this Internet day and age, a company and site has to build trust before a random visitor is going to cough up a name and email address.
Show me a little leg first...
Don't blame Canada. Blame Adobe.
Adobe made the Acrobat reader a must for viewing PDF files mainly because:
It solved a need. Every page now printed out the same regardless of which printer or operating system was being used. It could even be made interactive for form completion.Adobe gave away millions of the free readers before publishers adopted the new PDF format as a standard for
I have to admit that I'm coming aroung to Firefox. As mentioned in this review, I usually use Avant Browser, but Firefox has three features that are kind of winning me over. The first one is the ability to include a search box from which you can choose wikipedia (Asymmetric only consults the most accurate sources), Websters (not that I need help spelling), IMDB (last search-Sikozu from Farscape), and some social networking sites like Digg. The second one is that Firefox doesn't crash on some sites like Avant does. And the third is the automatic spell check (for my wife).
So, one of the things you can get for Firefox is this Cooliris thing I found on Internet Tidbits. It's supposed to give you a preview of each link you hover over. I can see the usefulness of such a plug-in, but I had my suspicions. After all, if a site says it talks about D&D miniatures, I trust it will be a website; do I really need it proven to me? Plus, I thought, how annoying is having every link pop-up
Ever since I switched to Google Reader a couple weeks ago, it’s annoyed the heck out of me that when I added a feed, it was several more steps to assign that feed to a label/tag/folder.
I see that on Friday, they fixed that annoyance. Thanks guys!
i have long wanted to abandon the art of blogging. i was never the kind who shared everything that happens to me. but that's not what blogging is about is it?oh well, i have nothing to say. there is nothing good to look back on since my last blog. except that i got to meet a lot of potential-long-term friends. Φ staff at the hotelΦ lolos and lolas at anawimΦ staff at anawimΦ volunteersΦ my new friend JAYfor the past weeks these people gave me a new reason to smile. :)ill be posting their pics next time. they really are special people. gaano ba karami ang frustrations mo? kase ako marami pero hindi naman ako nagpapapekto sa mga bagay na yun dati. hindi ko alam kung bakit ang bigat sa loob ng nararamdaman ko ngayon. nawawalan ng pagasa, nawawalan ng gana mabuhay. puro na lang problema, wala akong dahilan para ngumiti at pilitin magpatuloy sa araw-araw. mahirap magisa. mahirap piliting gawin ang hindi mo kaya. kanino ako sasandal? sa pamilya ko na hindi ako naiintindihan? sa mga kai
