Dubai City is a poorly thought-out city in the Middle East. It has amazing growth and the tallest building in the world, but they didn’t quite think it through. They forgot to put in enough sewers. So mile after mile of sewage trucks line up on the highway for sewage transport. It’s the epitome of quick and dirty.
We went to Saigon 2 for dinner. I got some iced Vietnamese Coffee Milk. It was pretty strong, but was good as long as you sip it. It wasn’t some insane flavor or anything…just kinda like strong coffee. Although kinda expensive at about a dollar an ounce or so.
This is the best bookmark I’ve found to check Albuquerque traffic on the way to/from work. It’s just a twitter search for #nmtraffic.
https://mobile.twitter.com/search/%23nmtraffic
In Android, you can tap-hold a bookmark in your browser’s bookmarks screen to add it to your home screen.
How do you get out of a dialog on the iPad? You just touch the main screen behind it. (Took me a while to figure out as a Windows user.) Seems like lots of web apps are taking up this paradigm. You can still hit escape as we Windows users are used to, but you can also just click on the back webpage that presented the dialog. Apple has brought the touch interface to the desktop in other ways. I heard a recent release of Mac OS reversed the mouse wheel scroll direction so that you’d think of it as a touch interface. You are dragging the screen down…not scrolling a scroll bar up. Weird things to get used to, but perhaps more intuitive?
WordPress can look very tiny on a mobile phone by default. It was much easier than I thought to fix it. Just install the WordPress Mobile pack. In your admin dashboard, Plugins->Add New. Search for Mobile. Install. Bam! (I think WordPress should just do this out-of-the-box.)
We watched the Oliver! musical on Netflix. I looked up gruel. It’s basically Malt-O-Meal if you’ve ever had that…a thin hot wheat-based soupy stuff. Porridge is a thicker version of gruel. I like Malt-O-Meal with butter and sugar, but I’m guessing Oliver didn’t get any of those in the orphanage/workhouse. Come to think of it, my kids have never had malt-o-meal. Time to let them try it. And if they ask for more, they’ll have to talk to the administrators!
This post provoked me to increase the security on my gmail and bank account. The idea is that when you connect to the site on a new browser or computer, it sends a text to your phone that you have to enter on the site. So it uses something you know and something you have to secure the accounts. Not that this wasn’t a pain. It was. Took me quite a while to learn that my bank isn’t compatible with google voice. But now it’s much tougher for a hacker to get in. When future-me meets parallel-time-stream-me who got hacked because he didn’t do this, he will thank the present-me. (Too much Doctor Who.)
Gmail went down today. You can google “google status” and see the current status of google apps.
Here’s how to get a google map in “My Places” from your desktop to your Android phone. I don’t know why it doesn’t just sync them automatically.
“Create a custom map with your locations. Make sure you’re logged into the correct Google account for your device when you do this. Load the custom map on your device via Layers.”
In scrum software development, there are all these ridiculous special phrases like “story points”, “burn down”, etc. Specialized phrases always annoyed me. Why can’t you just speak in plain English? Why do they have to invent these silly terms? Is it just to protect the trademark of the process inventor? It’s kind of like Bananagrams…great (and stressful) word game, but instead of “next” you say “peel” and “bananas” instead of “done”.
