National Geographic Photo Of The Day Wallpaper on your Mac Desktop I love National Geographic photographs. Sujeet linked to a Nat Geo photo on a tweet today, and that led me to setting up National Geographic Photo of the Day as my Mac desktop wallpaper using an Automator action. Interested? Here are some notes: Nat Geo offers free Windows and Mac screensaver applications of their best […]
Handling Unicode with PHP Unicode characters and webservices always create one or the other problem for me 😉 Working on PlannerX backend was not any different. Spent some good hours fixing Unicode / UTF-8 related issues. And while I was searching for some solutions, I found an excellent “PHP UTF-8 Cheat Sheet” by Nick Nettleton of DropSend. I highly […]
Harsh Times, Real Pain – It will end, and will make us stronger These are hard times. We have had to take some real tough decisions. Here’s something Ami shared with me. A message from Robin Sharma. We are in some harsh times. Many of us are going through real pain. But here’s the thing: pain isn’t bad. It just feels bad. I’ve had some deeply painful times […]
Why do we like beautiful things? Donald Norman has three tea-pots. One is an impossible tea-pot. You simply can’t use it. The other is a chubby, artistic piece that looks beautiful. Third tea-pot is very different. You tilt it and lie it on a flat surface – first to make tea, then to ensure that it does not get darker than […]
