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Not sure if this is an accomplishment or not, but 62% of 1000...

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 14:19:00 -0500

Not sure if this is an accomplishment or not, but 62% of 1000 games of Freecell - hell yeahs in my book!

Of course, as luck would have it: game 1001 was lost…

TrevorLee's Digest of Engaging Internet Tidbits & Diversions - April 27, 2012

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 07:31:54 -0400

Well, I missed getting my weekly installment the second week. Wow…well, last week was a bit off kilter anyway; Sherry was down at Wanee, so I was home working and working - and performing a few upgrades to my office and work computer, riding my new lawn tractor around (THANKS Uncle Donnie)…needless to say - busy!

Quote of the week:

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Kurt Cobain

Learn something new:

25 Uses For Essential Oils - Sherry and I have been big fans of essential oils and their properties for a long time. This is a wonderfully informative read.
21 Tasty and Cost-Effective Breakfast for Dinner Ideas
Eat Breakfast for Healthier Eating All Day Long
The Peace Drone by Axel Brechensbauer

Things I meant to post at the end of last week…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqMjMPlXzdA - Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE should watch this video at least once.
ACLU Bust Card, in English - Please download, print, and keep it in your wallet. (maybe even make a few copies to give to friends). You never know when your rights might get trampled on.
A Psychedelic Anti-Marijuana PSA for Kids (1988)
And from the country that brought you the cupcake vending machine - now comes the Autospense

Solid State Drives:

I installed one of these this past weekend and it is by far the biggest computer performance booster I have EVER installed. But, it was a long arduous task to move files around and get it installed. Anyway, these articles were a BIG help.

How To Migrate Windows 7 to a Solid State Drive - How-To-Geek
How to Migrate to a Solid-State Drive Without Reinstalling Windows - Lifehacker
Speed Up Your SSD By Correctly Aligning Your Partitions - Lifehacker

Here’s a couple of music related links:

Last week’s video of the week:

Under the Namibian Sky - The Movie - YouTube

This week’s video of the week:

I’m Not Alone (HQ) Widespread Panic 4/19/2008

Picture of the week:

(via: SpiderIV - DeviantART)

-thanks for tuning in!

TrevorLee's Digest of Engaging Internet Tidbits & Diversions - April 13, 2012

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:03:26 -0400

Welcome to the first installment of my weekly digest. Instead of posting lots of different links throughout the week, I thought it might be best to sum it up in a weekly digest.

Quote of the week:

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan

Learn something new:

Things you ought to know about:

Be entertained:

Art & Inspiration:

Image of the week:

President Obama & Star Trek’s Lt. Uhura Pose Together Giving the Vulcan Salute

(via Laughing Squid)

ialreadydontlikeyou: 10 Rules for the creative process Bold,...

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:05:55 -0400

ialreadydontlikeyou:

10 Rules for the creative process

Bold, inspirational, typographic posters throwing down life lessons to all creatives. Credit: Jan Filek.

Magic Mushroom House Built Under the Influence of Hallucinogenic...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:26:00 -0400

Magic Mushroom House Built Under the Influence of Hallucinogenic Drugs

Check out this house - nothing short of amazing to say the least. There is such an extreme “wow factor” built right into the organic comfort it seeks to provide.

Enjoy checking this out! (and there’s an awesome video too…)

(via Magic Mushroom House Built Under the Influence of Hallucinogenic Drugs)

quotevadis: “The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire...

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:09:39 -0400

quotevadis:

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.”

— Plutarch, a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.

A Rant about "The Cloud" - Loss of Data & Trust in Evernote

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:00:00 -0400

That’s right folks, real live honest a goodness lost data in the cloud - what a scary thought, not to mention a time consuming pain in the backside.

So I love relying on the “cloud” for storing my data, it’s great, always there, whenever I need it, where ever I am; if only… Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve had this “sinking feeling” that sometimes my notes were not being updated properly on Evernote; but with three devices, and a scatterbrain mindset I couldn’t be 100% sure. This is why I take notes - lots of them.

Thus suspecting that sometimes Evernote was occasionally fuggling up my notes; when I got done editing a note last night using the windows application, I entered the text “eof 4/3 (and maybe a time)” at the end of the note I had edited. Then, just to be sure, I loaded the note on my android tablet to see that the change had made it over; it had. This next morning, I went to edit and read my note on my android tablet which I had been working on, and I noticed a bunch of text which I had removed the previous night was back, and my little eof note at the bottom of the file was GONE - yup, you heard it right; and along with the little note, also gone was my changes, and a little bit of my sanity.

Now this is an issue I was able to almost reproduce, but it really makes me wary of Evernote now, plus the new installation of doubt concerning storing data in the cloud. It’s actually rather frightening to wonder how many other bits & bytes which might also have been lost over the past who knows how many days/weeks/months - and has gone unnoticed.

I appreciate that Evernote offers a free service, and a somewhat costly (in my opinion) premium service (which as I understand I would be able to help myself with this problem if I had it). But if it cannot handle data integrity properly…then I, nor anyone else should have use of it. I mean really; what would the point be? A product or service such as you offer should not run under a “it works for most” nomenclature. Especially when it comes to data which is constantly being updated.

It really saddens me to have to part ways with Evernote - I found it to be an awesome tool - with a lot of untapped potential.

Worse than that though, is how it is now making me totally rethink what I store in the cloud, and how maybe it all needs to be re-thought with provisions of 0% chance of lost data.

(photo via Stock.xChng - link)

rawbdz: author: Niki Brown title: Today

Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:04:42 -0400

rawbdz:

author: Niki Brown

title: Today

Media Temple Chat Support, Telepathy?

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:55:00 -0400

I don’t know, but if so, then that is SERVICE…

So I’m over there in the Media Temple account center, looking to find out how much cpu or memory a certain domain might be using, not quite remembering where to go look, I hit the newly discovered chat button, wait a moment or two, the tech comes online, and WHAM, the answer just popped into my head; before they even started typing!

Now I can’t say that I am total believer of ghosts, ufo’s, and ESP (the band rocks though), but (mt) might be on to something if they were to start telepathically handling support requests!

Stay tuned for my new blog post about Dreamhost & Media Temple - It’s a battle of the titans…

(media temple)

quotevadis: “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:53:22 -0400

quotevadis:

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”

— John Augustus Shedd, an American author and professor. In 1928 he wrote “Salt from My Attic”.

quotevadis: “Always design a thing by considering it in its...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 23:14:00 -0400

quotevadis:

“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.”

— Eliel Saarinen, a Finnish architect who became famous for his art nouveau buildings in the early years of the 20th century.

6 Google Tips for Businesses | Social Media Examiner

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:46:00 -0400

6 Google Tips for Businesses | Social Media Examiner

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Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:43:52 -0400

7 Easy Ways to Improve a Bad Day Tips like this can really help....

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 08:19:00 -0400

7 Easy Ways to Improve a Bad Day

Tips like this can really help. I especially like the tackling small tasks to feel some achievement.

(via pickthebrain)

A Chinese perspective on the spring equinox

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 22:23:10 -0400

A Chinese perspective on the spring equinox

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:03:00 -0400

““Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.””

- Margaret Mead

ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:57:22 -0400

ChronoZoom is an open source community project dedicated to visualizing the history of everything to bridge the gap between the humanities and sciences using the story of Big History to easily understand all this information.

(via ChronoZoom)

(via You Drive What? | photos of funny cars, strange cars, weird...

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:07:12 -0400

(via You Drive What? | photos of funny cars, strange cars, weird cars, ugly cars, junk cars and cars that barely run!)

Playing music continuously across page loads

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 17:05:00 -0500

Playing music continuously across page loads:

There’s nothing I hate more than sitting here at my computer, working, or not, crankin’ out my Lawrence Welk & Perry Como mp3’s, and then I surf into a webpage that starts playing (without my consent mind you) some crazy jambandtronicajazzrock on top of my smooth mellow big band sounds. The two sounds just do not meld well together ;)

Well, this page sums up the technical aspects of it very nicely, and it’s an easy read.

(via stereointeractive.com)

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Wed, 07 Mar 2012 19:32:06 -0500