Every day fiction dot com is a website that publishes a ultra short user submitted stories. Starting in September, each day a a new short story of a 1000 words or less will be released and sent to the subscribers via email, or RSS feed. Users can also read the story online at Every Day fiction dot com and make comments. A story that short you should be able to read on your lunch break or on the bus to work, it should take no longer then 20 mins to read. So you should have no excuse about not having enough time to read a ultra short fiction like this.
Go and read a story or two. Every day fiction dot com
The .UIF or Universal Image Format File was created by MagicISO as a compressed ISO file.
An ISO image (.iso) is a disk image of an ISO 9660 file system. More loosely, it refers to any optical disc image,
You will need two pieces of software, one to decompress the .UIF file to an ISO and the other to burn the ISO.
To Convert the UFI file to an ISO you will need to download MagicISO. MagicISO is not free but there is a trial that will allow you to decompress a UFI file to a slightly larger ISO file. If you do feel like spending a little money MagicISO can also burn UFI files if you pay for it.
To Burn an ISO I suggest that you use ImgBurn its free and simple to use.
Directions
- Download and install MagicISO trial
- Start Magic ISO, from the menu click Tools->Decompress UFI files
- Find and select your UFI file for the source file and click the decompress button.
- Download and install ImgBurn
- Start Image burn and open the output ISO file from MagicISO
- Insert DVD and click burn.
People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one.
~Leo J. Burke
Today I was reading a recent article on Jonlee.ca about his set of tips for prolonged Computer Usage.
Most of them where the standard; not to use a bright monitor, Posture, Take Breaks, and Avoid High Caffeine Drinks but I didn’t agree with all of them.
- Room lighting - He suggested that you keep the room dark after the sun has set. This is not a good idea for a few reasons. When we where young as a species before there was artificial light we went to sleep when it got dark. This programing is still in us to this day , When its dark go to bed. A dark room just enforces the idea of sleep in our bodies. One of the other points he made was about not using a bright monitor, if you are in a dark room with any monitor it will be pretty bright compared to the rest of the room and bad for your eyes. If you are going to work long hours work in a well lit room.
My own tips for pulling an all nighters
A all nighters in my books is when you see the sun come up before you head to bed. I’m lucky in my programing job nothing is super time critical so I almost never have to pull an all nighters at work. My private life on the other hand I regularly work strait thou the night on Friday, sleep most of Saturday, go out on the town Saturday night, crash out of shear exhaustion on Sunday. Its not a good thing to do to your body but sometimes you got to do what you got to do.
- Take a shower - One of the best ways that I have found to keep going when I am past my 20th strait hour is to take a shower. The water wakes me up right away and I tend to do my best thinking when i am way from the computer anyways. Take a break and take a shower.
- Dark background with white text - Most good editors allow you to change the color schema of your workspace and having dark backgrounds with light text puts a lot less stress on your eyes. With less stress on your eyes it should be easier to keep them open.
- Eat high natural sugar food - An apple or a mango or some kind of natural fruit juice helps alot to keep you up. An apple keeps you up with out the sudden crash of energy that you sometimes can get with chocolate bars and pixi sticks.
- Eat a 4th meal - If you are up for a longer time eat anther full meal. Stop around 3-4 am and have a 2nd dinner to give you the energy to continue the night. Don’t eat fatty foods like hamburger and french fries they will put you strait to sleep.
- Loud music - Listen to some loud music, metal, punk, or something very active. My all night play list includes Mudvyan, Lamb of god, Chimaira, MSI, Freestylers, and Slipnot.
- Walk around - After a few hours of stitting at your desk, get up and take a walk, get the blood pumping again, get some oxygen to your brain.
What are your tricks for staying awake for all nighters?
When I am on the hunt for new and interesting music one of my first stops is Aurgasm.us. Full, compleat songs, from musicians that I have never heard of before. and the best thing is that all the songs on there site are legitimately free so I don’t feel bad for stealing music.
An aural orgasm. Something amazingly pleasing (particularly music) to the ears.
I just listened the Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety and had multiple aurgasms.
Urbandictionary.com - aurgasm
The site provides a flash mp3 player so you can preview the songs from in the browser before you download them. RSS feeds and email subscription allow you to get updates in your inbox each week or so. Each post also includes a decent review and back ground infomation about the band or musicians.
I have found a few gems on this site including belleruche, julie-feeney, mungo-jerry, cibelle, elizabeth-catapult,
Great website, I suggest it to all my friends.
It looks like the site makes money from affiliate ads, at the bottom of each post that links to a site where you can buy there music from (most of the time its amazon.com)
The site gets its music from MySpace, and amazon.com and presumably he asking the artists before he puts it on his site all thou he doesn’t have to (you read the user agreement before you uploaded your music to MySpace right?) and from what I have seen he only picks artists that have released at lest once CD on amazon to get the affiliate ad money.
I have offent thought of stealing this idea, there is lots that I could add to this type style of website but with all my other projects I just don’t have the time. Maybe if I could find a musically endowed writer, that would like to work for a share of the affiliate ads and the opportunity to get there name out there.
Anyways Enjoy.
“Next to jazz music, there is nothing that lifts the spirit and strengthens the soul more than a good bowl of chili. Congress should pass a law making it mandatory for all restaurants serving chili to follow a Texas recipe.”
— Harry James, trumpet player.
A popular saying among self-proclaimed chili purists is “If you know beans about chili, you know chili ain’t got no beans“. The thought that beans do not belong in chili may be further credited to the fact that most “official” chili cook-offs do not allow beans. In many cases a chili will be disqualified if it contains such ingredients considered “filler”. Article I, A, 2 of the CASI rules states: “2. NO FILLERS IN CHILI - Beans, macaroni, rice, hominy, or other similar ingredients are not permitted.”
Anyone that has ever been to a real chili cook off knows that real chili tastes nothing like the stuff that you can get in a can from the grocery store. Its missing the bite, that you can really only get with good home made chili.
Chili should also be stored in the fridge over night before its ready to eat. Some say it seals in the flavor. I tend to use a slow cooker to cook it over 48+ hours to create a really nice roasted flavor.
My chili recipe
What you need
- 4 lbs of lean ground beef
- 1 can of kidney beans
- 1 can of chick peas
- 1 can of black beans
- 1 jar of pasta sauce
- 1 tablespoon dried oregano
- 1 tablespoon crushed cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 can of diced tomatoes
- 1 can of kernels cone
- 1 package of bacon
Directions
- Brown the ground beef and add it to the crock pot
- Grill the bacon and cut in to small chunks and add it to the crock pot
- Add all the rest of the ingredients to the crock pot
- Put crock pot on a low simmer for 24 hours
- Refrigerate for 24 hours
- Reheat and serve with bread and cheese
I have always had trouble striking up conversation with random people, I like to be introduced to someone first to have the ‘Its OK to talk to me’ smile and hand shake.
I hate getting that unwelcome, confused look that you sometimes get when you try to strike up a conversation with a random somebody and there trying to find out what you are trying to sell them.
To day I was reading one of my RSS feeds for BeyondRobson.com, and I came across this story can’t talk to vancouverites about Ok Social.
Basically its a button that you can wear that tells the world that its OK for you to talk to you. A button that tells people that you are willing to take some time out of your day to talk to a random person.
My first thought was who in there right mind would wear that button but over the day the idea grew on me and I ended up requesting on for my self from Ok Social. Apparently the buttons are free “The idea is to make this a friendlier place, not make money.”
Its an interesting idea, I hope it works out and I can’t wait to find someone else in the city that also has the button.
Want to help?
- Wear a button. Get one at info@oksocial.org
- Give out a bunch of buttons to your friends to wear. Request a bunch of buttons… we’ll give them to you. It’s free.
- Visit our MySpace profile and be our friend.
- Download this simple printable poster and post it somewhere.
- Send us your suggestions. info@oksocial.org
- Blog about us! This really helps to spread the word.
- Steward OK in your city, school, neighbourhood, etc. Ask us how…
“Over at JohnCow.com they have a contest going on where there web hosting provider is giving away $500 prize! Here’s your chance to win a Playstation3,or an Xbox360, a Nintendo Wii, an iPhone .. you name it, they’ll pay it! Don’t miss out and check out their mad cow blog!”
JohnCow eh? there site is exactly like JohnCHow.co, same style page, same plugins, same everything. How evil is that? but if it gets you readers and subscribers and money in the bank it its still pretty evil.
*Look at me i stole there stolen image.
I was reading some of the posts on the top three contest by dailyblogtips.com.
One that caught my attention was 3+1 things bloggers should never ever do
- Stealing others content
- Being rude to your commenter
- Posting invalid facts
- Stealing others ideas
The stealing others ideas has a great example of how Adobe aka 500 gorillas in photo editing riped off an idea from a small website ColourLovers.com. Not just the idea but the color set for there own site is very similar.
I have used the Colour lovers website before its fantastic for finding just the right complementary colors for websites. I used it back in 2005 for my first version of Games games and more games theme.
ColourLovers.com has a good post on all the similarities between the two sites.
This kind of thing angers me allot being a little guy. If I build something, I spent 200 hours getting it running and building a community and a big guy like Adobe or Microsoft steals the idea and makes there own version I have no way of competing with a company that can put unlimited man hours in to a project.
Adobe should do one of three things
What are your ideas on this?
If a big company steals a little guys project and adds a bunch of features making it “Better” is it right?
Where is gets sticky is if you cant build on other peoples work then there would only be one OS in the world. As far as I know IBM was the first company to build an OS. Windows, Apple’s OS, Linux all came after and I can’t really image a world with out Windows and other compedators.
The project was to create a status web page that showed the temperature of a room. The temperature of the room changes rapidly and I wanted the changes to appear on the page without my users having to click refresh every time they wanted an updated value.The ideal solution was AJAX.
I would use a bit of JavaScript to query anther page for the temperature of a room and refresh a div on the status page every n seconds.
It worked fine in FireFox and opera but when I tried it in Internet Explorer (IE) I found that the value never refreshed.
Example: http://www.abluestar.com/dev/web/ajax/temperature/
It turns out that Internet explorer loves to cache everything even when it’s told that the data has expired. IE is happy to shows you the catches version.
The first thing I tried was to set the Last-Modified, Date, Cache-Control headers so that it shouldn’t cache anything. Of course Internet Explorer ignored these settings.
Then as a good internet enabled programmer I searched the internet for a solution and came across this page Ajax IE caching issue. His solution was to use a POST instead of a GET to retrieve the data but it didn’t work for me
After a bit of smashing my head up against the wall, cursing the devil that is internet explorer I finely found a working solution.
Added a parameter to the end of the URL with the time in Sec’s
So instead of requesting value.php I request value.php?s=1828399595. It worked flawlessly
Example: http://www.abluestar.com/dev/web/ajax/temperature/index2.htm
<html>
<head>
<title>Temperature</title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetXmlHttpObject() {
var objXMLHttp=null
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
objXMLHttp=new XMLHttpRequest()
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
objXMLHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
}
return objXMLHttp
}
function RefreshData() {
// Get The value span
var value_span = document.getElementById("temperature_a") ;
if( value_span == null ) {
return ;
}
// Get XmlHttp Object
var xmlhttp=GetXmlHttpObject();
if (xmlhttp==null) {
alert ("Browser does not support HTTP Request")
return ;
}
// Create the request
xmlhttp.open("POST", "value.php" + "?ms=" + new Date().getTime() , true);
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() {
if (xmlhttp.readyState==4) {
if( xmlhttp.status==200 ) {
value_span.innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText ;
} else {
// Error
value_span.innerHTML = 'Error loading data. Error=' + xmlhttp.status ;
}
}
}
// Set the request
try {
xmlhttp.send(null);
}
catch (E) { }
// Set a timer to call this function again in 1 sec
timerID = self.setTimeout("RefreshData( );", 1000 )
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload='RefreshData();' >
<strong>Temperature:</strong> <span id='temperature_a'>Loading</span>
</body>
</html>
