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Claire Furney

Debit card replaced

* http://www.theguardian.com/money/2012/feb/03/barclays-replace-debit-card * http://www.help.barclays.co.uk/faq/cards/debit-card/why-new-card.html Barclays sent me a new debit card out of the blue, my existing one still had 18 months until it expired. I phoned to find out why and initially the

Fridge

Current fridge R5303B Frigidaire 55cm Undercounter Refrigerator (R5303B) * Height 84.5cm (86cm measured) * Width 54.5cm (55cm measured) * Depth 57.0cm * Net 122L total capacity Gap is 58cm wide x 88cm high x 58cm depth Possible replacements * INDESIT TFAA10 - Currys - 85 x 55 x 58 - 96L Fridge

Downgrade Spotify

Just noticed it. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-02/26/spotify-axes-apps Everyone complaining about it. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Where-has-the-Spotfy-apps-gone-ie-NME-Pitchfork-Guardian-etc/td-p/1042617/page/2 How to downgrade it. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-03/12/how-to-downgrade-spotify But... was that just the lyrics I wanted.

Jam

We bought a jar of strawberry jam at the Fortnum and Mason [https://www.fortnumandmason.com/stores/stpancras]'s in St Pancras [http://londonist.com/2015/03/video-secrets-of-st-pancras-international] station and have got into the habit of finishing breakfast with some bread heated in the oven spread with cream cheese,

CS50

I started taking Harvard's CS50 [https://cs50.harvard.edu/] Intro to Computing course when it cropped up in the middle of FreeCodeCamp [http://www.freecodecamp.com/]'s JavaScript programmer's course. CS50 appears to be a fairly infamous course with several routes to take it including

Ghost and DigitalOcean

Reference * https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-the-digitalocean-ghost-application * http://support.ghost.org/mail Initial setup Initial steps taken for creating a Ghost instance on DigitalOcean: 1. Create new droplet * enter name * choose size - smallest * choose image - Ghost application * upload ssh key 2. Create a new A name record

Taking screenshots on Mac OSX

* Take screenshot: Shift + Cmd + 3 * Capture a portion of the screen: Shift + Cmd + 4 * Capture a window or menu: Shift + Cmd + 4 + Spacebar * To clipboard instead of file: As above + Ctrl https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201361

Image pasting in Confluence

The image pasting functionality in Atlassian's Confluence [https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence] rocks! Screenshot an area of the screen to the clipboard using something like Greenshot [http://getgreenshot.org/] and paste it straight into an article or blog post. It is automatically resized to a default size,

Notes on markdown

Lists Bullets * Use italics * Use bold * A nested item * A final item Numbers 1. Remember to buy some milk 2. Drink the milk 3. Tweet that I remembered to buy the milk, and drank it Links URLs are automatically linked e.g. http://ghost.org Or more commonly use []() e.

R5303B Frigidaire 55cm Undercounter Refrigerator (R5303B)

* height 84.5cm * width 54.5cm * depth 57.0cm * net 122l * gross 150l * class B http://www.appliancesdirect.co.uk/Frigidaire_55cm_Undercounter_Refrigerator_R5303B/version.asp#maindesc

Ctrl + Shift + 3

Trying to program inside the CS50 virtual machine is painful when you can't find the hash key. I'm not the only one. Happiness is relative. Ctrl + Shift + 3

Please enter numbers only

Dodgy validation on this form ...

Hotels Copenhagen

* skt petri - sunday £118 - free breakfast * axel guldsmen - £100 - central, recommended * copenhagen admiral hotel - sunday £90 (breakfast is £15) * adina apartment hotel - £70 - studio room * the square - £104 - free breakfast * annex copenhagen - £36 * hotel kong arthur - £87 - free

Thanks, your mate kirby

Got this message whilst doing my kanji reviews on kanji.koohii.com [https://kanji.koohii.com] - a great site to learn kanji and the BEST forums for advice / support on all Japanese language learning.

Irish Soda Bread with Treacle

Ingredients * 600g Wholemeal Flour * 200g Self Raising Flour * 2 tbsp Bicarbonate Soda * 2 tsp Salt * 1 litre Buttermilk * 4 tbsp Black Treacle Method 1. Turn oven onto 250 degrees celsius 2. Grease the inside of the bread tin 3. Flour the inside of the bread tin 4. Add all dry

Seven Day Juice Detox

Day 1 Suddenly decided yesterday looking at the rebounder that I had bought and the juicer and now had no excuse not to follow through with the 7 day juice detox. Especially since I still had a heap of fruit from last week. So I started this morning. The extra

Nietzsche - Living voluntarily among ice and high mountains

Philosophy as I have so far understood and lived it Means living voluntarily among ice and high mountains Seeking out everything strange and questionable in existence Everything so far placed under a ban by morality The ice is near The solitude tremendous By how serenely all things lie in the

Gravatar

I sometimes notice that when I sign up for something I magically get assigned my clockwork orange eye icon. Gravatar (linked to Wordpress somehow?) simply links an image to an email address and can be served up using the MD5 hash of the email address. The ruby code to generate

It does what it's supposed to do

Sublime Text

Package Manager Install from the command line using instructions on the web. Following installation open with cmd+shift+p Bubbling cmd+opt+up or cmd+opt+down - swaps either one line or multiple lines with the one above Reference: http://wesbos.com/learn-sublime-text-line-bubbling-in-2-minutes/

How well do you know your wine language?

From here [https://www.theguardian.com/quiz/questions/0,5961,1579424,00.html] as far as I can ascertain.

Wine varieties

Wine varieties France, red Aramon High yielding southern table wine variety now in decline. Black-skinned variety of the Languedoc. Reference: http://www.wine-searcher.com/grape-829-aramon Auxerrois Synonym of Malbec in Cahors. Often called Pinot Auxerrois or Auxerrois Blanc, is grown fairly extensively in Alsace, but appears in more wines than

Toast guy

All roads lead to toast.

Simple homestyle curry

I bought a book from amazon just before I went to India "50 Great Curries of India". No coincidence. Haven't read the introduction yet, but made the first pre curry, described as a simple homestyle curry. I made it in le creuset, but I chopped the

TFS 2010

When mapping workspaces there are two options: Active and Cloaked. Cloaked hides directories. Double click on Source Control at the bottom of the project node in Team Explorer to open Source Control Explorer Click on the local path at the top of the Source Control Explorer to go directly to