George Monbiot’s career advice
Makes me want to become a journalist.
MAFF…
- is a single-file format that contains one or more web pages.
- Save disk space, since MAFF is based on ZIP
- Include video and audio, WebM, Vorbis, Theora and more
- Be universal, compatible with Linux and other platforms
- Use an open format, with no risk of vendor lock-in
Why Microsoft Word {M}ust Die by Charlie Stross
Interesting things to be learnt here about the .doc and .docx file
formats.
At work, the Office ribbon toolbar has won me over; I think it’s pretty decent. But solid UI is no substitute for poor fundamentals!
This Friday afternoon at around three fifty, my co-teacher said that she had something important to tell me and I felt worried that I’d done something wrong. In fact she told me that all the other teachers were going on the annual overnight trip at the end of the school year in about twenty minutes, though I wasn’t invited. continue reading this entry
There Are Thousands of People Trying To Play The Same Game of Pokemon
UPDATE #3: After struggling over 16 hours, players have finally made it past the nightmare of Route 9. Praise be to the Helix Fossil. Only problem now is navigating a pitch black labyrinthian cave! Should be done with this in a breezy 96 hours!
UPDATE #4: Defying all the odds, the OVER 40 THOUSAND chatters controlling this game made it through the Rock Tunnel in a mere 9 hours! Reminder: a complex pitch black cave with monsters attacking constantly was easier than a ledge.
Those who say that you should find what you love and let it kill you make the same mistake as those who say there’s exactly one soulmate out there for everyone.
Last Friday night I went to a bar for a Korean friend’s birthday; I know this guy via some westerners I know, so there were plenty of westerners there as well as Koreans. Maybe 60% guys, 40% girls. The birthday friend’s in his early thirties, so most of his friends had ten years on me. But since this is East Asia, they looked to be in their late twenties. And since this is Korea, in particular, the girls and guys know how to dress and how to make-up, so what you had was a bunch of scruffy western English-teaching guys and a bunch of very attractive Korean men and women of various professions.