Thanks to Marc Hoffman (dwarfland), I got an infrared picture of myself while I was in California.
I catched him on infrared too.
–jeroen
Archive for September, 2010
Me in infrared
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/06
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English Language Difficulties
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/06
Not being a native English speaker (though that term is difficult to define), I like the English Language Difficulties pages a lot.
They help me to get things in English writing right, that I often find difficult.
Some of them: Read the rest of this entry »
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Session Buddy – Google Chrome extension gallery
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/03
Great Chrome extension: Session Buddy.
Not only great for saving and restoring sessions, but also for getting the URLs and Titles of your tabs (or single window with tabs).
Easy for collecting relevant information and saving it for inclusion in documentation (for instance: your blog ).
via: Session Buddy – Google Chrome extension gallery.
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#SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 3: baggage claim tag got not sticked to boarding pass or passport
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/03
On every airport I have been so far, my baggage claim tag got sticked to either my boarding pass or my passport.
Not so today at SFO airport international terminal A; it got placed loosely in the passport, not sticked to anything.
I didn’t notice, so I was glad my wife was walking behind me in the shops when it fell out: she noticed, so we still have the baggage claim tag.
–jeroen
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#SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 2: women’s restroom G9:G12 are only partially available
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/02
When you leave at SFO airport international terminal A at G9 through G12, and you are female, then don’t queue up at the restroom on the upper floor.
One of them is broken, so there is a huge queue of waiting ladies.
My wife got back in the hallway to use a less busy restroom.
–jeroen
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#SFO airport international terminal A #fail part 1: men’s restroom at G9:G12 are not cleaned often enough
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/02
When you need to board at Gate G9 through G12 at SFO airport inrternational terminal A, then don’t go to the men’s restrooms near G9:G12 at the upper level: the smell of urine is so strong and the floor so filthy that I got back in the hall finding clearner one’s.
–jeroen
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Batch file tricks – double quotes splitting and downloading latest 7-zip
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/02
I needed a quick means to download the latest 7-zip from the command-line in Windows.
This batchfile makes use of these tools:
- cURL (the latest win32 build from the cURL haxx download page)
- wget (the latest win32 build from Bart Puype)
7-zip has a download page that contains lines like these:
<TD class="Item" align="center"><A href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sevenzip/7z465.exe">Download</A></TD>
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KLM online check-in #fail: each combobox enter refreshes page
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/01
Most pages don’t do a page submit when you press the Enter key in a combobox.
KLM does in their online check-in.
Which means that a keyboard groupie like me basically is forced to use the mouse to select country a zillion times (Netherlands for all of the group members for Nationality, Passport, etc).
Other sites do it right and accept this:
- Press down-key to open combobox
- Press N key a couple of time to select Netherlands
- Press Enter key to accept Netherlands
- Press Tab key to go to next field
KLM online check-in does a page submit on each time you get to step 3, refreshes the page, and moves the focus to some non-input fied.
Big #fail.
–jeroen
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batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/01
From a batch-file I recently had to start Windows Explorer, at the same time select a specific file or directory.
This turned out pretty easy: use the /select command-line switch from Windows Explorer.
In fact, Windows Explorer has a few command-line switches, and the “explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com query will find quite a few topics about it: Read the rest of this entry »
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