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New Books Added to My Reading Pile
Some new arrivals, bought based on references or tips. isbn Title Author Genre 9780801472893 Whole World on Fire. Organizations, Knowledge, & Nuclear Weapons Devastation Lynn Eden History, Political Science 9781475767599 The Little Book of Stars James B. Kaler General Science, Astronomy
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Introducing Satyrical: Humor in Leadership Critique
If you were thinking there is a typo in the title of this post then of course you were right. But it is intentional. I invented a new word referring to both satire and satyr. I needed a new category for posts that make fun of the current state of affairs in the world (satire), especially pertaining to the behaviour of our so called leaders (satyrs). I decided to call my new category Satyrical Verses. According to some definitions I found a satyr is a mythological creature known for unrestrained revelry and excessive desire and focussed on wild, uninhibited, or…
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Building Resilience in the Workplace
Long ago, at the beginning of my career I got some good advice about how to be successful in the professional workspace. Basically 3 things were required: a round back, a thick skin and short toes. It was said half as a joke but I have found this to be good advice for life in general. Not because you should accept abuse or becuase you should ignore the world and people around you but because these 3 ‘characteristics’ help you to deal with dissent and criticism. To hear it to begin with and then to decide which criticism to ignore…
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Ballerina
After the final John Wick Chapter 4 movie some thought we had seen the last of John Wick. But then came Ballerina, starring Ana de Armas as Eve Maccaro, another assassin of the Ruska Roma who wants to avenge her father’s death. The character first appeared in chapter 3 and that scene comes back and is extended from the viewpoint of Eve in this movie. John Wick features prominently in the finale of Ballerina and we get some short typical John Wick shoot outs. Eve, of course carries the movie as a female John Wick. It is not quite the…
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MagSafe Compatible Quadlock Case
Recently my phone case broke and I needed to get something new. I was stalling a bit because the phone colour does look nicer without a case. At the same time I was looking for a way to attach my phone on my speed pedelec handlebar. I have used Quadlock mounts on some of my other bikes so I decided to have a look on their site. I went for an out front mount pro and case. Installing was super simple, a few minutes only as the mount comes with spacers and tool to attach the mount to the handlebar.…
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HTML For the World Wide Web, Elizabeth Castro (Peachpit Press)
I read this book in 2003 when the web was still young. I used it to teach myself html (and a little css) so that I could create my own first personal web page. I like to read so it had short summaries of books I had read, plus pictures to share with the family scattered across the globe. It was quite primitive and as I had no training in software development I was not adhering to any best practices or even following the web standards, but neither were the big players. In those days it was a challenge to…
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John Wick: Chapter 4
John Wick: Chapter 4 continues where chapter 3 ended. That film ends with John Wick being betrayed by Winston who shoots him. John falls off the roof of the Continental and is rescued by the Bowery King. Based on this you know what to expect. John Wick is looking for revenge and he kills the Elder who sits above the table. As a consequence the High Table will save no expense to kill him. But, with the aid of Winston, John Wick finds out a way to escape his destiny. We get what one expects from John Wick: a lot…
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Emojis in WordPress on Mac to creating keyboard key images in CSS
In a recent post I wanted to add a smiley to a blog post and thought I could simply type 🙂 but this didn’t work. According to a search on the internet this should work in some cases but not for me as you can see. Searching a bit more I found other suggestions. One way is to create the desired emoji on a dedicated website and then copy-paste it but that is a cumbersome roundabout way. Luckily it can be done a lot simpler by pressing the command + control + space keys together. This will show a pop…
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Serendipity
Back in 2003 I learned myself html by reading the html 4 for the worldwide web, a visual quickstart guide from Elizabeth Castro and then wrote my first website. Castro is an American tech writer who wrote numerous books about certain aspects of website development. She is also active in the Catalan independence movement. After a long pause I started dabbling in website development again and decided yesterday to speed read this old book again. In her book she uses various html code snippets to illustrate the function of tags and their properties and so on. The content of the…
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Gravity’s Fatal Attraction. Black Holes in the Universe, Mitchell Begelman and Martin Rees (ISBN 978-1-108-81905-3, Cambridge University Press)
I just finished reading this book. I found a reference to it in another book I read recently. It is a really peculiar book, I have not read anything like it before. As the title suggests it deals with gravitation and how its unique characteristics lead to black holes. It has no equations in it and as such you could characterise it as another popular science book on gravity but that classification doesn’t fit the bill. Both authors are leading astrophysicists and one professor has been using the book for two decades in a course. I read the third edition…
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