A friend forwarded me this most interesting article on the clearly increasing participation in street protests in the UK and around the world. Old ‘Anonymous’ is rising up and increasing it would appear. It reminded me of ‘occupy Vancouver’ way back in 2011. And it reminded me of other things from my youth that I joined in to protest. Most…
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Lucky Cat Gits No Respect!
And check this out! I told you! I told you! Now Lucky Cat gets reduced. LUCKY CAT GITS NO RESPECT!
When does Libre Office Calc decide to overflow text into adjacent cells, or cut them at the boundary?
You are trying to do a spreadsheet and keep it tighter but the vertical column boundary cuts the text off. And you want to stop it. It’s easy. Check it out.. 1. Annoying red arrow cut-offs! 2. Highlight cell or row and then right click on it, and ‘format cells’ 3. Click that check box ‘wrap text automatically’ 4. Yay!…
Google: The Supreme Alphabet Agency
You may have not read my original post about Google’s somewhat silent and out-of-the-blue creation of their new ‘supreme corporation’ ‘Alphabet, but if not, do catch up by reading it here. I knew there was ‘something’ about their name. Something strategic. Something creepy. Something tongue and cheek. But it wasn’t until I had a 6am coffee with Joe Adam on…
Driving: A True Depiction
My mom responded with this video but didn’t actually put it in this post so I’ll help her out…
Our Online Future Encapsulated
A friend of mine sent me this speech (transcribed) today and I was absolutely unable to stop reading it right to the end. I found out that my browser has ‘reader mode’ which was cool, by the way. Read this article. You’ll learn about how you are victimized but it ends with some awesome inspiration. It encapsulates: Our current situation…
How to Find and Edit Kijiji Ad Posting
So you’ve posted an ad on kijiji and now it’s lost? I hear you. It’s not really lost it’s just oddly a bit hard to find when you end up on other pages. Go to www.kijiji.ca (not .com I found out several times 2. Log in with user/password 3. Go to ‘my kijiji’ button on the right and boom. There…
BC, AB and SK Container Recycling Deposit Handling Fees
Here are some interesting facts before I give you the links you want: Only the three western provinces of Canada have a deposit / recycling fee system on their containers (BC, AB, SK) There is no unified, one-stop website for someone to stay current on these ever-changing fees Each province seems to have different fees, but even if they weren’t…
It’s Time to Hate What Google Has Made You
You have been a frog in lukewarm water and Google (and Apple, and Microsoft, and others) have turned up the heat without you noticing. Well, you kind of noticed. You kind of noticed how some conveniently relevant ads started showing up in your inbox and on all the websites you started visiting. You kind of noticed how the mail that…
Free Secure Instant Reliable Skype Alternative
Update (150922): less than 24 hours after publishing this post was published confirming that the very next release of Firefox (version 41) will have the key missing ingredient of instant messanging (IM) or text chat built into the Firefox Hello! part of the browser. This is huge news and great news. Read on! Skype Down. Good. ‘Bout time a Fire…