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June 28, 2015
Gmail for Beginners, Part 2 – Finding and Reading emails
If you missed Part 1, Getting Started, you can find it here. Finding your emails In the past, when you received emails they would all be lumped into one place – the Inbox. From there, you, the user, would have to sort through all kinds of unwanted emails to find the few gems, i.e. the […]
June 27, 2015
Gmail for beginners, part 1, Getting Started
As the title suggests, this is the first in a series of step-by-step instructions on how to use the Gmail email application [on the pc]. The series is aimed at people who are very new to computers in general and email in particular. Overview Before we begin, we need to spend a moment talking about […]
June 23, 2015
Interlocking furniture design
My Dad was a mechanical engineer, and while I did not inherit any of his math ability, I get the spatial beauty of things that work because physics makes it so. I think even Dad would have loved furniture that slots together with just one key part to hold everything securely in place. I know […]
June 21, 2015
SanQing Shan (9) – The Prayer
Originally posted on retireediary:
SanQing Shan has a lot of columnar shaped rocks. The picture was taken while we laboriously made our way to the summit of the mountain. To me, they look like fingers of palms in prayers, clinging close to the chest. I couldn’t help thinking of Celine Dion’s The Prayer – a…
SanQing Shan has a lot of columnar shaped rocks. The picture was taken while we laboriously made our way to the summit of the mountain. To me, they look like fingers of palms in prayers, clinging close to the chest. I couldn’t help thinking of Celine Dion’s The Prayer – a…
June 20, 2015
Over 97% of homicides in America aren’t committed in self-defense
Originally posted on Quartz:
The right to bear arms is a pillar of the US Constitution and many Americans defend it in the strongest terms. One key argument for gun ownership is that it allows citizens to protect themselves and their families, and to prevent greater harm to society—potentially by killing an assailant. These types of…
The right to bear arms is a pillar of the US Constitution and many Americans defend it in the strongest terms. One key argument for gun ownership is that it allows citizens to protect themselves and their families, and to prevent greater harm to society—potentially by killing an assailant. These types of…
June 19, 2015
A very clever sci-fi short film
J.T.Carlton is a multi-talented singer, composer and writer who produced the music and sound for this short film. It’s scary and very clever. Enjoy :) MeeksFiled under: Sci-fi Tagged: JTCarlton, music, sci-fi, short-film, thriller, video-clip
June 18, 2015
Laurie Boris – In the Name of Love
Laurie Boris should need no introduction, not on this blog, but for those few who haven’t heard me rave about her writing, you can find my reviews here, here and here. For everyone else, Laurie’s latest book is a collection of ‘short and shorter stories’ on the theme of love. I’ve only just bought ‘In […]
June 13, 2015
Shame, Gmail, shame!
Gmail has never been my favourite webmail client, but the ‘new’ gmail makes me want to break things. Have a look at the screenshot below: Rather than sending obvious spam to the spam folder, or not displaying it in the first place, Gmail now sends it to the top of the list in the Promotions […]
June 12, 2015
Holus tabletop holographic device – watch the prototype!
I joined a new social media platform today – Tumblr – and under the techology category I found this: You can find the complete article here: http://www.futuristech.info/etc/holus... I am so gobsmacked my jaw is still dragging along the ground. The future is here. MeeksFiled under: digital devices, Sci-fi Tagged: domestic, gaming, holograms, Holus, Kickstarter-funding, tabletop-device, […]
June 11, 2015
Women Writers of Sci-Fi
We have had some brilliant female authors writing sci-fi – Ursula K LeGuin and C.J.Cherry to name just two – but many of them are unknown to modern generations of readers because their books went out of print. For an explanation of why this happened, please read Kathryn Rusch’s brilliant post here: http://kriswrites.com/2015/06/10/busi... One of […]
