5 years on the meatless monday diet
It's been more than 5 years since I started the
"Meatless Mondays" diet. Basically, I do not allow myself to eat meat on Mondays. This includes fish, any kind of meat flavored anything, such as in broths. I haven't decided on jello though... and I think cheese, milk, yogurt and eggs are just fine. Also, I drink only tea (unsweetened), coffee, and water. I still do it, and it's pretty easy to do now. I normally have a veggie burger (no, it does not taste like meat at all) and for dinner, beans and rice, or peanut butter and honey, or oatmeal. Of course, since I have started, I find myself eating a lot less meat, since I've found foods which can satisfy me just as much as meat did. I think now I go meatless most days, about 4 out of 7 without meat. When I do eat meat, it is usually turkey, bison, or fish. Before I started this, my cholesterol level was not exactly high, but for my age it was higher than normal. Now it's within normal ranges, and I feel like I am in very good shape. I've also been riding my bicycle to work and back every day for the past couple of years.
I guess it goes to show that starting a new habit on just a single day a week can make a huge difference.
Dictating a blog post
So once again I decided to try writing a new blog post by dictating with Dragon naturally speaking . And this is the result . As you can clearly see it appears to be working correctly. this is all thanks to my android phone and the new keyboard that I bought today. Yes I'm perfectly happy dictating this blog post . I just wish this keyboard would automatically insert punctuation . Well that's all for now as you can see it's almost 100% perfect .
Awesome new keyboard for android
I just got this awesome new keyboard for my nexus one. It's called flext9. It is made by Nuance communications. I must say, the voice recognition is the best I've ever seen on any device. It just seems to work. I'm using the sliding input method now, and it is also the most accurate i've ever used. it's also very fast. I highly recommend this keyboard to anyone. My only wish is for it to support the Russian language.
Labels: android keyboard Nuance
Peap / EAP on Android
I'm putting this here to save for later, in case I need it.
I got it work on my new Android 2.1 phone. yes, I was able to connect to 802.1x wifi.
Guys,
Fix #
1) Download Wifi Advanced Configurtion App and its free.
2) Add a new wifi-network as per your employer instructions. Now, you will see two "XXX" SSID one showing as "secure with WEP" and other as "not in range"
3) Open the App and uncheck the WPA_EAP setting in Key Management for the wi-fi network you created.
4) Your wireless should have already connected now.
I hope this solves all your issues.
from here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=36dabddba0ba6162&hl=en
Study of Daily Life
I should have wrote 'job / study / work' but it is the same nevertheless. Even while on vacation, I seem to have the same formula.
Regex website: www.txt2re.com
BASIC wasn't the best language to learn first, but it was quick and easy enough for me to get interested in programming. Because I became interested in programming, I got quite good at BASIC, and saw it's limitations when I tried C.
The point is, I say this is a great website to take away a lot of the mystery of regex. Once people realize that it's simple enough if you take the time to learn it, they will obviously not be returning to this website, save to show their co-workers the ease of creating a regex, and the power of syntax.
http://www.txt2re.com/index.php3?s=17:Nov:2009%20"This%20is%20an%20Example!"&
My Views on What Chrome OS Should Be
Google will be releasing an OS called 'Google OS'. I've heard a little bit about it, but it did get me thinking about the problem with software development. Now we have people writing programs in Java to overcome the operating system limitations... basically, the way programs are written now, they are written for a single OS. Windows (usually). However, when a program is written in Java, that program can normally work on all OS.
The way it is now, if you write a program for Windows, and you want to switch to Linux, you can't - because most of your productivity software that you already purchased just won't work in Linux, or OSX, or whatever OS you decide to switch to. The way people work around that now is with a 'Virtual Machine' (VMWare / Sun Virtualb0x).
Well, imagine that Google comes out with something similar to JAVA. Imagine being able to run native code through the browser. Imagine that the OS becomes irrelevant, and every application is 'virtualized' as if it were running in a virtual machine.
Google has a few projects in the works, which, if combined could eventually make that future a reality. Take for example their new programming language "
Google Go". It's a semi-compiled language that is similar to Java. Look at another project that they have in the works called "
Native Client". They also use
sandboxing in Google Chrome. Intel tried and failed at something similar with their "
Open Runtime" (they haven't failed, but nothing's come of it for years). The only thing missing is the VM, and perhaps Google's '
Davlik VM' could play that role.
Imagine Google actually pulls it off.
Whales
In heaven and hell, an exploding whale. One beached, the other sunk. One returned to the sea, the other moved to land. Such is earth between heaven and hell.
