Today was my six month anniversery. Not of being married (already passed two years of that), but rather of working full time. Assuming I work 40 years, that means I’m 1/80th of the way there. To correlate that to the previous phase of my life (education — preschool through masters), I’ve just finished the first quarter of my first year of preschool…if preschool were to have quarters. *sigh*
The .dmg image format is great. But when you want to play nice with the Windows world, sometimes an ISO is just easier. Here is a quick set of instructions for creating ISOs from the command line using dd. A great quick reference to have.
I’m not sure what the “official definition” of a brain teaser is, but I’m not sure if this one qualifies. It’s really just straight up recognizing the pattern. It’s more something out of a Mensa test rather than a traditional brain teaser.
This question is taken from (at least in variant form) my Seagate mentor Norm Binger.
Complete the following series by filling in the two numbers represented as question marks.
1, 2, 4, 11, 22, 44, ?, ?, 514
In response to Parisa’s Riddle Me This post, I’m finally getting around to posting a few brain teasers of my own. To start out, here is a simple one I got from Mikhail at work.
Given the following dot configuration:
Connect all four dots using three straight lines such that you draw continuously (one line is connected to the next) and you stop drawing the same place you started.
This video takes me back to when I was a kid. If you don’t watch the video, it shows a magic trick in which you appear to bend a fork but actually don’t. I had video that taught me magic tricks as a kid and I showed this particular trick to my next door neighbor Andrew. Problem was, I didn’t show him the final part fast enough (where the fork isn’t actually bent). Being the competitive kids we were, he quickly grabbed his own spoon and bent it for real. I think my mom still has that spoon that we partially were able to bend back to the right shape.
Outlook is a professional-grade messaging tool, right? So one might be able to imagine where with the thousands of contacts people accumulate, they might get into a situation where they enter a person’s data into two separate contacts. Now, one might think that there would be an option to merge two contacts into one (I mean, the Microsoft CRM has that feature, Plaxo has that feature, heck event the not “professional” OS X Address Book has that feature built in).
But no.
There are plugins that can help you eliminate duplicates contacts, but nothing that I can find built into Outlook 2007 natively. Oh, to dream…