Even ducks love pom bears.
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The Dvorak Keyboard
When I took a trip to Paris a few years back, I had to pop into an internet cafe to find the location of a place I was after. Because – it seemed – I was hopelessly ill-prepared.
So I paid my money to the nice man in the corner; sat down; quickly typed my search and hit enter, only to find I had been presented with an empty results page. It seems Google didn’t recognise ‘me wenith’ as a Parisian Live Music Venue. This is how I was introduced to the French keyboard layout.
In telling this story today to a friend, he introduced me to another layout that I had never heard of – The Dvorak Keyboard (also know as the Simplified Keyboard).
The Dvorak Keyboard was originally patented by Dr. August Dvorak and his brother-in-law, Dr. William Dealey. It was developed to be an improvement over the well-adopted ‘qwerty’ layout that we still use today. The design of the Dvorak layout was based on much research into how people typed as well as percentages of the time spent typing in varying areas of the keyboard. It was stated that the Dvorak Layout would make it easier to type common words with the minimal of movement and finger strain.
Despite the research and slight adoption of this layout, it never really made it into popular use and so the ‘qwerty’ layout is still the primary keyboard used on western computers / devices to this day.
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Jumping the Shark
The term jumping the shark, I discovered today, is an idiom that is a way of describing when a television show’s quality begins to decline. It originated from the television show Happy Days in its season five premiere, where The Fonz literally jumped over a contained shark on a beach front.
This was quite a step away from its usual family and adolescent related story lines set against the nostalgia of the 1950s.
The usage of “jump the shark” has subsequently broadened beyond television, indicating the moment when a brand, design, or creative effort’s evolution declines.
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If you watch 4 episodes of #24 each day from tomorrow till day before premiere of #24liveanotherday you can catch up on all. #jackisback
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So it turns out that writing my own PHP framework is harder than I first thought. Not that I thought it’d be easy, mind.
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Hello Seagal WordPress Plugin
Every WordPress user knows that a fresh install of WordPress comes with a plugin called ‘Hello Dolly’.
Hello Dolly places a random lyric from the song of the same name at the top right of the admin area, changing with each new admin page load.
I like the idea but am not really a fan of the song. So I thought it would be cool to do my own variation. I have called it ‘Hello Seagal’.
Hello Seagal does exactly what Hello Dolly does — in fact it uses the original code from Hello Dolly — but altered for my needs. Hello Seagal will place a random line from various Steven Seagal Films in the top right of your admin area, changing with each page load.
With such classic lines as:
- “I’m gonna take you to the bank, Senator Trent” from Hard to Kill
- “Anybody know why Richie did Bobby Lupo?” from Above the Law AKA Out for Justice
- “I’m just a cook” from Under Siege
Download Hello Seagal Zip or View the source code on Github.
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Just stumbled upon the song from #lostintranslation where bill murray goes into the lapdance club. F**k the pain away by peaches.
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