Death.. the single best invention of life!–Jobs

I'm listening very carefully to Steve Jobs! If you're too busy for this - having to feed that dog or sommat -  at least scroll the video to 11:40 and take a minute or two from there. I'm printing these words and sticking them in front of my desk, "No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

Thanks Steve! You’ve changed many lives and parts of the world.

Jobs had a relapse of cancer after he had surgery for a more treatable form in 2004.

It’s sad that we often discover people and their wisdom after they pass on. Very sad indeed.

[Thanks to blogger aka_lol @ http://akalol.wordpress.com/ for bringing this to me].

The Robobasket effect.

I had mentioned this application some time ago. I’ve now got the hang of it after some experimentation and I share the tricks here. You can use this application to sort all your files. Picasa will not do this stuff. However, Picasa becomes easier and more efficient to use after sorting the Robobasket way.

Robobasket is easy to configure. The commonest place I have files to sort is from my camera. I always want to know that my pics are sorted into folders by Year, Month, Day. I don’t want to do that manually – that would be crazy. Below is the Robobasket effect that I love. After configuration, with one click of Robobasket my camera pics are sorted into 2011>10>05.


In the screenshot below I’ve created two rules to transfer pics and video from my SGS (phone) folder E:\DCIM\Camera to my hard drive. In the screenshot that follows I show how those rules are set up, and how you might do it.

This below may look complicated to some. It isn’t. Actually it is as easy as dragging and dropping things with a mouse and then, clicking on a ‘tags’ button. And the best part is that you don’t need to understand anything about how it works. So doing this is very mechanical. I’ve configured it to rename my files with ‘underscores’ in certain places. You need not do this. It will do the job perfectly without the rename action.

Clicking on the little folder icon takes you where you want to plant the files on your hard drive.


Robobasket can be automated for scheduled sorting of things on any drive. It can do that by your command, with or without your notice.
I was so impressed with the trial version of Robobasket that I purchased a full licence. I hope you find this application as useful as I’ve found it.

Padding the bill

The photograph on the left is one of a bill incurred last night at the Frankie and Benny's restaurant in Birmingham. We had gone there to celebrate a friend's birthday. When the bill was presented, we could clearly see that there was a Budweiser added for the cost of £3.75.

I found it a very sly way of padding the bill. I cannot believe that the waitress, who wrote down our order at the table, could so brazenly add a beer! If she wrote down the order at the table, and did not have a beer listed, where did it come from?

I don’t know about the food the others had but the burger I had was overdone and hard. Not to mention covered in unrequested mayo and piri piri sauce. That is the last time I will be going there.

Music from another time

It’s Saturday night. I’ve been reviewing lots of music from over the years. I thought I pull a few of my old favourites together. It’s mainly girl bands tonight, or girls in the lead, it seems.

Hmmm… what about it?

Reaches through my skin.

Wish I was there! LOL

So different.

Dunceyer and Dumberer

People will think I pick on dunceys deliberately, but Oh Mighty Fadder man, they do make themselves targets. Just when I think one took the bar as low as it could get, another comes along to prove that he could beat the previous record.

Check this out… a duncey gives a man a ticket for parking in a ‘wheelchair parking’ spot. Now, I doh know where people does build wheelchair parking facilities so I was lil confused. The confusion was cleared up when I realised the duncey mistook the disabled parking symbol for a wheelchair parking area.

Ramessar said the police constable told him that the parking spot, which has the image of a wheelchair painted on the ground, was reserved for a wheelchair and not for his car, which is specially modified to allow him to drive, using only his hands.

As one man asked: Was the policeman expecting someone to park his wheelchair there and then walk to his office?

I have to give credit where it is due… they always have a diverse piece of dotishness… meaning no 2 stories are the same… and they always good for a laugh, usually the belly-bussing type that comes from deep in yuh belly.

All joke and fun aside, I am appealing for the Commish or PSC or whoever in charge of it, please put the dunceys back in short pants uniforms. Is since dey get long pants dey feel dem is ‘man’ and behaving bad. And take away the guns.