Anyone who has heard about or understands Tap Theoury (Mr Brandon will explain all” will be reassured to know that this woman would have her tap glued shut. (Thanks Giz)
There are some software developments that wont ever make a dent on the world, and there’s some that could change the way we do things…. FOREVER. The chaps at TLA have set about changing the world with paradigm shifting technologies and their latest release is no exception.
The new PCalc software for the iPhone has a new “patent-worthy profanity filter” that filters out profanity created by typing in numbers such as “5318008″ into your calculator and turning it upside down.
Have you, or somebody close to you, ever turned your calculator upside down and accidentally seen a mildly suggestive word? Have you ever been in a maths class, and had to put up with groups of giggling boys performing elaborate calculations that are not part of the lesson?
Yes, it’s one of the main problems affecting the calculator industry today, the so-called “calculator words”. These otherwise harmless devices can be made to display smut at the press of a few buttons
Saving the world from mildy amusing words
Thank God for PCalc
Just a little bit of Friday fun. This one’s an oldie but a goodie.
Manufacturer Recalls Hollow Point Bullets That Fail To Explode Inside Targets
Favourite Line “…some of these defective bullets can leave an exit hole as small as a plum”
I really love Outlook, I use it for pretty much everything I do, but I couldn’t help agreeing with almost all of the 67 Reasons that Outlook Sucks.
Shame really because that’s such a simple nag list for Microsoft to fix!
Being the educated young chap that I am; I regularly read New Scientist (actually Santa brought it for me for Christmas). In the Christmas edition they held a competition with reference to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Given speculation that the switch-on might attract visitors from the future, they asked “what gifts might three such travellers bring”? The winning answer was thus:
“HELLO, I’m from the future,” the creature
announced as it jumped out of the Large
Hadron Collider. “After the Bad Thing
happened, life was pretty bad, but we’ve
invented this thing called Fire and now life
pretty good. So I’ve brought you some Fire.”
The second time traveller, as David
Malarkey tells it, announced that “after
the Bad Thing and Fire we were very happy
except for carrying heavy things. So we
invented the wheel and now life is almost
perfect. So here’s a Wheel.”
And the third declared that “life was
almost perfect, but we still had to work.
Now we’ve invented something to abolish
work, and it’s called Money. You just pass
it round, and apparently, if you can pass
it quickly enough, it grows and grows and
grows all by itself and nobody has to work
at all. So I’ve brought you some Money.”
Genius.
It’s no secret that I’m a food fan, but if you are too, then time to get down to Pizza Express and enjoy the PizzaExpress 2 for 1. I’ve done this before and it works out REALLY well. It’s also worh noting in the terms and conditions:
The most expensive main course will be free.
Which is something you don’t often see!
Enjoy….
As you well know, I’m a lover of all things digital (well not all things… I can’t stand QVC or digital answering systems) but it seems that there is someone who really understands how technology should work with us in this day and age.
Thanks to Tim Ferriss for the find. (His video is on there too)
OK, so we’ve all done some crazy things in our lives (I’ve still not done enough REALLY crazy things but have done a few!) but have you ever been “Air Sphering“?
The deal is, you get inside a large inflatible ball and roll that into a stream of air (a verticle wind tunnel) running at 160mph.
I’ve done the indoor sky diving…. and I’ve done the downhill zorbing (sphering) but the two together sounds ace!
Ever done something a bit off whack? Let me know in the comments.
Happy Christmas
Matt
I often find that sometimes you have to put in a lot of work to not get much done and today was one of those days. I attended two useful functions (DSEi and an ESF Framework seminar (07-13)). I spent the best part of four hours getting to DSEi and a couple to and from Sandown so I had plenty of time for musings.
I wondered if I am too young to be successful in management. Too inexperienced to be respected. Too renegade to lead. I debated whether it was an efficient use of my time to be flowing between events by car, if I (or Teresa) had planned my journies well enough.
DSEi is a funny beast. I would imagine that billions of pounds of defence trade occurs during and directly after the show and as a consequence there are thousnads of top execs walking around, doing very business like activities, intermingled with very ordinary activities such as eating, ordering coffee, using the bathroom and checking out the cute promo girls/guys. It’s amazing how a high net worth individual can quickly become normalized by watching them carry out mundane tasks. It’s almost comical watching how technically minded individuals struggle when perched on a bench eating a soggy sandwich.
I realised that actually, the people I would rank in the top ten to respect are never seen doing that. The high fliers would have food brought to/for them. There seems an art form in getting people to do things for you and I need to know how to do that. The art of effecient and apreciated delegation should be my next port of study.
That ends this pointless rambling I’m afraid, more cohesive thoughts to follow…
O-M
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