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Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman is awesome

I recently was introduced to Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman which I found profoundly interesting.

In a nutshell, it’s Morgan Freeman guiding you questions such as “Is There a Creator?”, “Is Time Travel Possible?” and “Are We Alone?” while giving you scientific theories to how/why certain phenomena is possible.

While you can only buy season 1 on DVD via amazon right now (UK), season 2 can be purchased online and is also awesome.

I highly recommend you give it a try :)

Posted August 13th, 2011

How to do a timed shutdown on your PC

Recently I’ve stumbled upon a really neat technique to listening to Spotify while I’m heading off to bed, then not have to get up to turn my music off once I’m dropping off.

Firstly, set up a playlist in Spotify which will help you relax. Once you have done this step, open up command line (cmd.exe) and type the following:

shutdown -s -f -t 900

Code Breakdown

The above command will shutdown your PC in 900 seconds. Let me quickly break down how this command works:

  • shutdown indicates you want to run shutdown.exe
  • -s is a flag saying you want to shutdown your PC
  • -f is a flag stating you want to force shutdown, so your PC will not hang around waiting for applications to close while shutting down
  • -t is a flag which indicates you want a timed shutdown
  • 900 means the amount of seconds until the shutdown occurs. In this case 900 seconds, or 15 minutes.

Once this is command has been run you should see an information bubble (Like below) stating when the shutdown will occur.

Information Bubble

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Posted March 10th, 2011

My Resolutions for 2011

Here are a few of my resolutions for 2011, hopefully if I remember I’ll try to tick them off throughout the year.

  • Learn Ruby on Rails. I’ve wanted to learn RoR for a while now, but I’ve had the need. However, RoR is gaining a lot of popularity among clients. Another need reason to learn it is nanoc, a really neat web publishing system which is much suitable for small business websites.
  • Contribute more to GitHub and Google Code projects. I’m sure working on small projects semi regularly will benefit my coding skills and help with some cool stuff.
  • Blog more. I’m hoping for about a post a week, maybe not entirely about programming but still geeky.
  • Get an Android App into the market. I’ve been playing around with android for a while; it would be nice to make something which I feel is market worthy.
  • Exercise more, without joining a gym.
  • Use Linux more. I love Linux, but due to MS Word, Photoshop and games not running well under Wine I keep ending up back on Windows. I might also try and get a Mac at some point, but that’s more of a “Could have” then a “Must have”.
  • Stop using YouTube & other websites which annoy me. A handful of websites are making small changes which are bugging me, in 2011 I’m going to stop using websites which appear to be trolling me.
  • Design More. I suck at designing, and a little practise would go a long way.

Posted January 4th, 2011

Twitter Suspensions – I can’t help but giggle.

Some of you may have noticed several twitter users complaining about their “clients” accounts getting suspended. In some cases the user was doing nothing wrong ( See Mashable: Influx of Twitter Account Suspensions Creating Confusion). But in others the user was clearly not helping the twitter community.

Here is a neat little screen shot of people complaining their account has been suspended:

spammer_on_twitter_gets_suspended

I think the screen shot speaks for itself (Click the picture to see a larger version).

Posted July 6th, 2009

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