How about a toaster… with a countdown timer? This toaster counts down the time as your slices of bread are gently transmogrified into toast.
Finally, a toaster that tells you exactly how much time is left before your toast will be ready. No more guessing when it will be done—and coming back to find it cold.Hectic mornings? This is the toaster for you! Unique digital toaster counts down the time until your toast is done on a backlit LCD screen, eliminating guesswork and making it easier to multitask amidst the morning hustle and bustle.
Large capacity and special features make this the ultimate household toaster.Four-slice toaster has 3 indicator lights and easy-touch control buttons that let you toast frozen goods like waffles, stop toasting mid-cycle, and reheat cold toast without overbrowning. Plus, the bagel function with “set and forget” slide control toasts the cut side of the bagel and warms the outer crust. Electronic sensor ensures consistent browning, every time.
This toaster is also perfect for people with CDO, which is a very serious condition. CDO is
OCD, but with the letters in alphabetical order, the way they should be.
For the type B people out there, how about a hammer with a built-in bottle opener?
I’ve mentioned StackOverflow before. It’s a place you can ask and answer questions about software development. It’s got a strong reputation system that keeps the nut jobs and spammers at bay, and I’ve found it very useful. Not all the posts are about slaving away over a hot keyboard, though.
I had a conversation the other day with a fellow Software Engineer about a web-based project I want to start. There are several advantages of these two technologies, and clearly either one would be sufficient to do the job. As a Software Engineer who is constantly striving to improve and up my skillset, I also have to think about what technologies are going to further my career. Developers, I would love to get a discussion going on this topic, so please leave comments. Oh, and I am purposely sticking to these technologies because I believe strongly in cross-platform tools, and these are the two top contenders in that arena. And we’re talking server-side options. So no whining from the .NET/Flex crowd.
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I fill out a lot of complicated forms and edit a lot of Wiki pages. As much as I love Firefox, there are times that it locks up or crashes, which makes me lose all that work. I just discovered Lazarus, which is a Firefox plugin that stores all your form data as you type. Now, even if I accidentally close a window/tab, I can only lose a few seconds of work!
Lazarus stores the data in an SQLite file-based database in your profile directory, so it persists even reboots. It even has the option to store the data encrypted and password-protected, for you privacy nuts out there (/me raises hand). It’s completely unobtrusive, and does exactly what it says it does. Give it a try!
Disclaimers: This is not a new book, nor have I read it. I have read reviews of it, and am recommending its concept here, but can’t honestly recommend the book, not having read it. OK, that probably sounds awkward, but there you have it.
I found this review of the book The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu’s Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work, which is a modern interpretation an application of the original The Ar Of War by Sun Tzu, now thousands of years old, yet still relevant. The reason I am promoting this book’s view of the original work is simple: It points out that The Art Of War is not just relevant to war. It is relevant in any situation where you are facing one or more parties with conflicting goals, or competing for the same resource. It could be at work, or dating, or politics, or even dealing with your relatives. It’s mostly about finding your strengths and the others’ weaknesses and using both to your advantage. It’s about looking for things in your environment that can help you. It’s about focus and balance.
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I found this trolling various blogs on wordpress.com. You know, the way we geezers used to surf the internet before Google indexed everything? Anyway, here is the National Post‘s round-up of The Best Financial Jokes Of 2009 So far. In this case, the nation is Canada and the section is Financial.
Here are some of my favorites from the list:
- Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has adjusted its investment portfolio: 50% cash and 50% canned goods
- The courts allowed the bankruptcy proceedings for Chrysler to go forward. The bankruptcy was approved after the judge told Chrysler to sit in a room for a few minutes while the judge went to talk to his manager.
- How many stockbrokers does it take to change a light bulb?
Two. One to take out the bulb and drop it, and the other to try and sell it before it crashes (knowing that it’s already burned out).
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