Humble English Language & Literature Extraordinaire :: Gadget-Techy Enthusiast :: Designer of Many Things :: Writer of Few :: Reader of Lots
These two win the internet today
Why is the Samsung phone featured so little in the ad?
... this is what he came up with
I find the Draw Something app oddly therapeutic - maybe it's the nostalgia effect with colouring in! Here are some of my recent creations ...
There's been a lot of talk recently that Mac OS is not as invincible as people have been thinking regarding viruses and malware. Even though Apple have been the target of a couple (yes, a couple) of OS attacks recently they still remain the most secure computers around. But that's not to say you can go waltzing around the internet downloading left, right and centre. The best defence from malware is you. Only you can download nasty files to your computer and really, only you can prevent it.
The biggest threat seems to be Flash from Adobe (which Apple more or less declared dead in the water when they prohibited it from their iOS devices and the world is now looking to HTML 5). Nasty folk have tried to mimic Flash updaters and this is their backdoor in to your Mac. Simple answer is only update Flash from Adobe's main website.
Check out the video for some more security tips.
We've had the VW Polo since we got married (Rach and I, not the Polo and I), and it's served us well until today when it decided to try its hand at flying. It failed miserably but thankfully no one was hurt in the process.
We pay road tax in this green country of ours and, to be honest, I've yet to see a whole lot of proof as to where that money is going. To tax a Volkswagen Polo in the North of Ireland it costs around £35, whereas down here you could pay between €200 and €300. It doesn't take perfect vision to see that the roads and infrastructure up North are far superior to the pothole-ridden messes we have here. Maybe in bigger cities roads are more appealing, and more safe but not here in the West.
I'm not pointing the finger at anyone but I would like the county councils to look into the secondary and lesser roads lovingly referred to as the ‘back-roads’. I was motoring along nicely on the old Swinford Road from Ballina on my way to help a friend video a wedding when I came to a corner. As the road is quite narrow I kept in to my side as I began to slow down. Only I didn't. My tyres went onto the unmarked verge and I lost control, smacking into a tree stump (that probably should have been removed) and sent careening through the air.
In the few seconds it took to shout out "God help me" the Polo had turned upside-down, the airbags deployed and I was looking at the world the wrong side up. I immediately unbuckled myself and managed to open the door and assess my situation. Miraculously I was unharmed save for some minor scratches and bruising. One look at the car told me I should not be in the state I was.
Seeing that there was no smoke or flames I quickly went back into the car to retrieve some expensive camera equipment and my iPhone that I found laying on the inside roof of the car. Again, they were all undamaged. Shock set in for a bit as I rambled on about destroying the car and thinking how stupid I had been but it soon dawned on me that it was not stupidity, luck or anything superstitious that kept me unscathed but an answer to the very quick prayer I uttered milliseconds after the Polo took off in the air.
People driving by the scene of the accident asked how the passengers involved were doing and when they found out that I was the only person in the car they were taken aback by my uninjured demeanour - see for yourself, the pictures are below - but I strongly recommend having a word with your vehicles about their aspirations. You too could be driving a car believing itself to be a space rocket.
I am known to make the odd sound about the house, either by way of shouting or song. When Noah was in the womb (he's been out for a while now) I could regularly be heard attempting these sounds myself or turning up the sound on iTunes. Now, when Noah gets restless and I sing to him, usually the same songs he heard in the womb, he stops crying and focuses on me as if in a trance. I guess when he learns to speak English he can tell me how off-key I sound!
Music is a part of life and the following video shows just that...
A very self-important college freshman attending a recent football game, took it upon himself to explain to a senior citizen sitting next to him why it was impossible for the older generation to understand his generation."You grew up in a different world, actually an almost primitive one," the student said, loud enough for many of those nearby to hear. "The young people of today grew up with television, jet planes, space travel, man walking on the moon, our spaceships have visited Mars. We have nuclear energy, electric and hydrogen cars, computers with light-speed processing and," pausing to take another drink of beer.The Senior took advantage of the break in the student's litany and said,"You're right, son. We didn't have those things when we were young........so we invented them. Now, you arrogant little boy, what are you doing for the next generation?"The applause was resounding.
The president of the University of California system, Clark Kerr, symbolized the problem. By refusing to discipline student activists who were taking over buildings and obstructing classes, Kerr, in Reagan's view, had only encouraged further disruptions. The regents of the university system were displeased with Kerr, but he was lionized by the media, and they were afraid to take him on. As governor, Reagan was an ex officio member of the board of regents and at his first meeting on January 20, 1967, told them that if they wanted to fire Kerr, they had his full support; he would handle the political fallout. Kerr was ejected, to his own evident disbelief.Then Reagan turned to the activists. Initially he tried to engage them in dialogue, but he soon found that they only wanted to trade barbs and insults. Reagan's quickwittedness is apparent from records of some of those exchanges. At one campus meeting, a student told Reagan that it was impossible for people of Reagan's generation to understand young people. "You grew up in a different world," he said. "Today we have television, jet planes, space travel, nuclear energy, computers." Without missing a beat, Reagan replied, "You're right. It's true that we didn't have those things when we were young. We invented them."
