January 2012
5 posts
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Winter Haiku
Winter’s cold breeze here Shoulder pain dragging me down Weekend balances
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Economies of Sorry
tl;dr Some guy hit my car and was completely unapologetic. Major stress would have been avoided if he had just manned up and said he was sorry, now it’s all insurance agencies and extra work. And it got me thinking…
How much does a sorry cost?
That title is in fact a little misleading, it should probably be, how much can a sorry save. In a stressful situation, apologizing has the...
November 2011
2 posts
Incredible, Google are taking Maps indoors →
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Tried live chat with Samsung, for 40 minutes, it...
Please wait for a Samsung Agent to respond.
You are now chatting with 'Belle'. There will be a brief survey at the end of our chat to share feedback on my performance today.
Visitor: Hi Belle ...
Belle: Hi, thanks for reaching out to Samsung tech support. How can I help you today?
Belle: Hello, please go ahead with your query.
Visitor: Well I have a samsung clx 3175fn which is out of color toners, but still has 50% black toner, when I try to print greyscale, nothing happens ...
Visitor: I figured I should be able to still print black and white despite no color toner, is this an error? or do I have to have all toners installed in order to print black and white?
Belle: I understand that you have an issue with toner in printer. Is that correct?
Visitor: yes
Belle: Thank you for confirming.
Belle: I see that you are not chatting from the U.S. Did you purchase the printer in the U.S?
Visitor: nope berlin
Belle: Currently, chat support is for US products only. Though our information on non-US products is very limited, we will try our best to assist you.
Belle: Please note you may need to contact Germany support number 49-(0)1805-121213 for further assistance if we cannot help you with your query.
Visitor: Thanks well its simply about toner colors so Im sure we'll make it thru
Belle: You're welcome.
Visitor: Sooo .. any advise?
Belle: Sure, I'll assist you with the information.
Belle: For how long are you facing this issue?
Visitor: Since the color ran out of the color toner cartridges
Belle: Thank you for the information.
Belle: Would you mind holding a few minutes while I gather the required information for your request?
Visitor: Sure
Belle: Thank you.
Belle: Are you able to print demo page?
Visitor: Well as I said I can't print at all ... but I'll try to answer the question ...
Belle: Okay.
Visitor: Nope, the printer, as before says that it's "out of toner", as I said only color toner, the black toner is 50% full ...
Visitor: Sorry, to be more specific, I cannot print a demo apge
Visitor: page
Belle: I understand your concer.
Belle: *concern
Visitor: So the central question ... does the printer need CMY toners even tho there is black in the printer in order to print greyscale?
Belle: Are you using a genuine toner?
Visitor: Yes
Visitor: It came supplied with the printer
Belle: Thank you for confirming.
Belle: May I know the status of the LED?
Visitor: If you mean the thin light in front of the panel, then red, and the blue circle is animatedly circling the ok button ...
Belle: Yes, the LED status.
Visitor: Red
Belle: A minor error has occurred and the machine is waiting for the error to be cleared.
Visitor: Ok thanks...
Belle: Small amount of toner is left in the cartridge. The estimated cartridge life of toner is close. You can temporarily improve print quality by redistributing the toner.
Belle: A problem has occurred such as a paper jam, cover is open or no paper in the tray, so that the machine cannot continue the job.
Visitor: Thanks again
Belle: Please re-install the printer drivers.
Belle: You're welcome.
Belle: Is there anything else that I can assist you with?
Visitor: No thanks ...
Visitor: I'll keep at it ...
October 2011
3 posts
6 tags
WatchWhenever I introduce myself to a person that doesn’t know me in Germany, 9 times from 10 they say something like “Hi Martin”, or “Nice to meet you Martin” in German. And while I always thought it was a pronunciation thing on my side, it seems that indeed my name in German is Martin …
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recurring calendar events with siri
Quite handy… when you want to create a recurring event. Just say:
“create a weekly/monthly <event name>”, then she’ll ask you when to schedule it…
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Siri the tip calculator
So impressed how nicely this works … try … “calculate twelve point five percent of 45 plus 45” … of course it’s probably better to try to not completely loose the brain power to do that … :)
September 2011
1 post
sandbox your rails console session
Classy little tip, when you want to have a rails console session which doesn’t effect your db pass the —sandbox option …
rails console --sandbox
Noice!
August 2011
9 posts
2 tags
SCANDYBARS →
I wish I hadn’t seen this an hour before lunch … via @nerdcore
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If there was ever any doubt... →
… about how awesome skateboarding is as a sport …
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Net HTTP debug output to console with HTTParty
I found this handy tip in the httparty docs, if you want more info on whats going on during some REST request you can get some debug output during a test run or whatnot by adding this to your HTTParty enabled class …
debug_output $stderr
So your class might look like:
require "httparty"
class AwesomeRestThing
include HTTParty
debug_output $stderr
def do_something
end
end
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Dogs in Motion | Fubiz™ →
I love dogs and I’m laughing hard at this …
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This week I am mostly addicted to...
… the webkit javascript debugger … #indispensable
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Textmate tips →
Some that everyone knows … but a few I’d never seen … cool!
July 2011
13 posts
tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?
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“‘When you are in the middle of something, your boss comes in and demands...”
– Liking the help examples for git stash … :)
Simpsons Skateboards | Fubiz™ →
I would actually love one of these … LOVE the Santa Cruz references …
recursion - Google Search →
Only for the geeks…
Using Redis with Ruby on Rails →
Nice write up for Redis on Rails …
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Node with specific attribute
obj.xpath("//attribute[@class='metadata']")
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Quickly parse with Nokogiri
This is a reminder for myself because I always forget the different ways for getting at data with Nokogiri.
doc = Nokogiri::XML(xml_doc)
objects = doc.xpath("//object")
value = objects.first.text
attribute = objects.first['attribute_name']
Apps vs the Web » Matt Legend Gemmell →
Clever stuff on mobile apps …
Just found Safari reading list ...
love it … #lion
Stuff I love about #lion #1
It’s a small thing, but when you open a new tab in Terminal, it opens the prompt in the directory you were in and not home.
Goodbye Mail.app ... again
I wanted to like you but #sparrow is so much better …
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Fixing imagemagick on mac osx lion 10.7 with...
After installing lion, imagemagick started playing up. No surprises there. The problem is that Imagemagick relies on Perl 5.8 which wasn’t installing correctly on lion due to some internal changes.
This is all laid out in the ticket, but I thought I might be able to confirm it.
So here’s how I got it back up and running again. I’ve been on MacPorts for a long time, I know...