The Economist Intelligence Unit have just released their biannual report on the most expensive cities in the world to live. And the winner is: Oslo, Norway. Apparently it’s the first time Tokyo hasn’t topped the poll. Paris is the 4th most expensive city with London in 7th position. What surprised me was that New York, […]
Want to learn a language? Well you might as well learn something useful. Take a look at this table of the 30 most spoken languages in the world.
Guy Kawasaki:“Judge others by their intentions and yourself by your results. If you want to be at peace with the world, here’s what you should do. When you judge others, look at what they intended to do. When you judge yourself, look at what you’ve actually accomplished. This attitude is bound to keep you humble. […]
What’s the best way of determining if an email address has been spoofed?
Here’s a solution I came up with: use the IP address of the originating server the mail came from and do a reverse DNS lookup to get the domain name. Compare the domain name from the lookup with the domain the email […]
I have just had my Hotmail account upgraded to the beta version of Live Mail. I haven’t tried it in Firefox yet, only Internet Explorer. I have played around with it a bit so here is a list features that I have come across so far that you don’t get with Hotmail:
Search
Autocomplete feature for the […]
So the design changes are well underway, well, sort of! Nothing fancy, just a few changes here and there. I have started to categorize things, although you may have noticed that I still have quite a few (previous) posts to reclassify. Funny how “Uncategorized” is actually a category in Wordpress!
I decided to get rid of […]
I have decided to start another blog, but in Spanish. I have no idea yet how often I will post or what I will post about. It’s an experiment. It also means I get to play around with yet another blogging tool.
Here’s a useful tip for making Safari take up the whole of the screen. I found it in a comment somebody had posted on this article about Saft, a plugin that adds a lot of funky features to Safari.
Add the following Javascript in the URL field at the top of the browser and then bookmark […]
Here’s an interesting fact from a book I am reading, Does Anything Eat Wasps?: And 101 Other Questions: the British Army used to put bromide in the soldiers’ tea as a means of curbing their sexual appetite. Apparently, bromide salts were widely used as sedatives in the 19th century too.
In a reference to using bromides […]
I had my first Bikram yoga class last night. It’s yoga, Jim, but not as we know it! It consists of performing a series of 26 postures. Each posture is done twice. The difference between Bikram and other types of yoga is that the room is heated. Think yoga in a desert! OK, I’m exaggerating, […]