I was trying to start my physics homework when I read this in my textbook: These experiments explain how a cat always manages to land on its feet. When dropped toward the floor from an upside-down position, the cat turns its body by means of very quick swinging motions of its hind legs and tail….Continue Reading…
I hate when software programs ask me if I’d like to update, but don’t say anything about what’s coming in the next version. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I have no idea what’s going to happen, and so I think of the worst. Being unable to revert back to the old version would be terrible….Continue Reading…
But at least they make you feel better with this error message: Confessions Of A Server OH MY! Life is so unfair! What did I do wrong to be born a server in this day and age? I could have been a nice simple bicycle that people happily rode around on all day. But no,…Continue Reading…
Not really. But I went through their entire 3-part “Start Drawing” tutorial! Here are some images from my experience: Here I just drew a simple house. Their tools make this sort of thing very easy to do. Here we added a patio to the front, applied textures using the paint bucket tool, played with shadows,…Continue Reading…
I was pasting data from a web page into an Excel spreadsheet, and I wanted to make everything have a consistent style. The function I used to do this is right-click -> Paste Special -> Text. This “inserts the contents of the Clipboard as text without any formatting” — exactly what I wanted. But it…Continue Reading…
I spent a while trying to find a copy of the CSS Compress plugin for WordPress. wp-plugins.org is down, so I had to find a cached copy. I finally found it, with the URL: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/css-compress/trunk/css-compress.php?rev=1318 I tried to look this up in Google. cache:http://dev.wp-plugins.org/file/css-compress/trunk/css-compress.php?rev=1318 No go. Google reports: “Your search … did not match any…Continue Reading…