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3月22日

Things to do when you are alone with your computer

Title says all. No explanation needed. It's basically just a to-do list of useful stuff that you can do when you're stuck in your house because of cold, icky snow, with nothing but your trusty laptop. Well, let's get going...

1. Empty your inbox. Many people have thousands of emails in their inbox, where many are already read and left in the inbox because "they may be important later" but "later" never seems to come. You need an Archive folder (In Gmail, this is the button "All Mail". In other email programs, you have to make your own folder, but it is so worth it.) Inbox clean in no time.

2. Sort out your computer calendar. Even if you don't have one, consider desktop application Rainlendar. It rocks.

3. Sort out your browser's bookmarks. Same as with the email, you ought to have lots of "read me later" stuff in your bookmarks that you just forgot about. Clean them. Now.

4. Decorate your laptop. Mine looks exactly like a 4-computers-in-one Vista, but it's a one computer XP. Amazing, the stuff you can do with an old XP, eh?

3月16日

Book Crossing

Bookcrossing is a cool site I found. It lets you get rid of old books by signing up on the site, registering a book to get a "book ID number", write a little message in the book, and leaving it somewhere for other people to find.

It's like a message in a bottle, or a chainletter, or whatever, but with books. You get the ID, then you write a message like this inside the book:

Hi! I have registered this book at bookcrossing.com so I can track its journey through this world. Please go to www.bookcrossing.com/123-4567890  to let me know you found it, then read it and/or leave it somewhere for someone else to find! Thank you.

Of course, bookcrossing.com/123-4567890 is not a real web address. The 123-thing is supposed to be the ID number of the book, in my blog I just used 123 for an example.

Join Bookcrossing! It so rocks and I am going to release lots of books into the wild!

I hope I find some as well as releasing them smile_regular

3月13日

Questions and Answers

If you have been reading my blog, you might have asked a few tiny questions. So, here are the answers to most of them (with the oldest ones at the end, so you can see how far down you have to go until you don't know what I'm talking about):

The deletion of your guestbook posts. Yes, I have deleted many of your guestbook posts, but the guestbook is only for things like "I was here" and "this site is good". Feedback, questions etc. are sent to me by a personal message, and questions about one of my blog posts go in that post's comments. By the way, any posts like "do you want to date me" and "where is your school" will be permanently deleted and never brought up again.

The conferences. Yes, I know, I should have written how they went. It was neither good nor bad. That's why I didn't bother to write about them.

The school. Well, you might not understand much of my school-related posts, but the fact is, I don't either. I don't understand the weirdness of that school, and chances are you don't either. Makes me think why I bother to write about them. Well, I need somewhere to get these thoughts out of my head...

Leap day. I said that Leap Day adds 1400 minutes to our average year. Actually, I quoted someone else. I would not bother to work out the extra minutes of homework time you get in leap years.

Widgets. I don't use Yahoo!Widgets any more, but I still have Rainlendar. I should include the updated desktop snapshot in a blog post... later...

My candy addiction. Yes, I am still candy crazy. It's just that I'm not very blogging-about-being-candy-crazy crazy.

My wallpaper collection. Yes, I did post wallpapers on this site, but now I have stuck to one wallpaper and deleted all the others. So, no more wallpapers. Not for now.

The school disco. No, I never went to it. Should have written that.

My mobile phone. Yes, I found it. It was on my bedside table, as said in that blog post. Lucky me.

So, that was it (I guess) so you should not have any more questions.

If you do, why not post them in the comments?

3月11日

A million percent

Hmm... I ate 100% of my breakfast and 80% of my lunch. Obviously, that comes to 180%. But that can't be right, only 100% exists (according to my math teacher. More on her later.) 60% of the teachers are gone. I understood 0.01% of what the math teacher said, but I understood 90% of what to do in the math book. Her way of explaining stuff to us is down to 0.5%. I ate 300% of a kiwi, and 50% of an apple. I understood 10% of what the science teacher said, and 15% of the teachers are quitting. I am 60% good at math, but I think math sucks 100%. I am doing 5% of my homework right now, as well as typing on 80% of the keyboard. I have 0.01% of a pencil in my pencil case (hey, that's the same as my level of understanding of substitute math teachers! Strange, huh?) and 990% of a colored pencil (so out of the substitute math teacher's ideas). We also saw a 100% drunk man on the street...

Sooooo, that comes to...

Two thousand and forty point fifty two per cent?

That can't be right!

At least not according to my math teacher...

3月9日

Shrink your Start Menu

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Honestly, have you ever seen such a small start menu? I bet you haven't, and neither did I, until I stumbled across SMOz (Start Menu Organizer), a program that lets you easily drag-and-drop the stuff in your start menu into a set of files, so that your start menu significantly shrinks.

Thanks, Lifehacker!

3月4日

Conferences

The hour of doom. The time of danger. What is it? You guessed it. Parent-Student-Teacher Conference Day. I crossed out "you guessed it" because I don't think you did. If you were close, you would have said "Parent-Teacher Conference Night". That is wrong. Most of the time, our school has Parent-Teacher Conference Night, but that's mostly for the little kids' conferences. We leave school early so we can have Parent-Student-Teacher Conference Day. That's why I didn't wait with this blog post until after school. 'cause school's already over.

3月3日

Go Black

Black saves energy. True?

It sounds silly, but a screen displaying stuff that is mostly black with (for instance) white text saves more energy than displaying mostly light colors.

One example can be found at blackle.com, which is the same as Google, but black. Make a difference!