Apparently Aberdeen is a boom town, but many others are doomed.
Monthly Archive for August, 2008
Some useful thoughts here, especially if I end up using Google lots more.
Gmail and many other services Google´s search results Nested folders More Thunderbird contact sync Some wget routes to backup Digg, etc Calendars Docs to Zoho to download Use a Google Mail fetcher
Edge looks at how we decide. Thoughts I liked: We see priming in experiments (you can affect outcomes by subtle clues in the environment) – how much does this affect the way we work in practice? Most standards are de facto and not usually driven by government We set our discount rates too high (see the Indian fruit [...]
Amazing that China managed to get rid of a rain cloud that was due to fall on the opening ceremony. Sadly, the funky feet fireworks in the opening ceremony were faked.
We really do need to get more people learning science, as Bad Science says, how on earth do reputable papers print this kind of stuff?
Looks like Russia has played Saakashvili like a Punch and Judy show. Bad on Europe and the other powers for not keeping him in line / being behind him when he needed it. [Update: the big picture has got there as well - brings home some of the what and where, if not the why.]
It has taken a while to work out what to do with Google contacts (which I want to be the central store for my contacts). Having various attempts at sync cause massive duplication (up to 6x in the end) I went back to a known good set from a couple of months ago.
The answer was to create my own CSV file completely in line with Google’s own export/import format. That looks like the following (you can copy and paste special>transpose in Excel):
NameE-mailNotesSection 1 – DescriptionSection 1 – EmailSection 1 – IMSection 1 – PhoneSection 1 – MobileSection 1 – PagerSection 1 – FaxSection 1 – CompanySection 1 – TitleSection 1 – OtherSection 1 – AddressSection 2 – DescriptionSection 2 – EmailSection 2 – IMSection 2 – PhoneSection 2 – MobileSection 2 – PagerSection 2 – FaxSection 2 – CompanySection 2 – TitleSection 2 – OtherSection 2 – AddressSection 3 – DescriptionSection 3 – EmailSection 3 – IMSection 3 – PhoneSection 3 – MobileSection 3 – PagerSection 3 – FaxSection 3 – CompanySection 3 – TitleSection 3 – OtherSection 3 – Address
Then line up your own items with these (or not as the case may be). I still get an error (”The file may have been too big”) but the contacts appear to come over OK.
Now to see if GooSync, my current sync saviour will work with these new contacts, and to work out quite how many new ones I have lost from the last few months.
Insanely good photos. I find it extraordinary that I could even contemplate taking their equal. That’s what a clever Japanese brain in a camera means for me.
We did want to buy a rug in Tunisia, so the sales pitch wasn´t so directly counter to our intentions, but even so, they did most of the same things as in this great write up. My favourite counter was when they asked us to buy a second rug: I said "I´d love to buy [...]
I´m glad that Moray´s analysts are so otherworldly. Otherwise the opportunity for great headlines confusing the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and the other kind of MILF would be too good to miss.