Creepy This American Life story

I particularly enjoyed this Dave Eggers story on the "This American Life" podcast - http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/448/transcript

Empty trash - Mac

The dreaded 'The operation cannot be completed because the item "...." is in use' message. This is the remedy (from http://www.lancelhoff.com/cant-empty-trash-on-a-mac/):

1. Drag the file from your Trash bin to the Desktop.
2. Launch a Terminal Go > Utilities > Terminal and type the following into the terminal window leaving a space after f:

cd ~/.Trash && sudo rm -rf

3. Drag the file from your Desktop to the terminal window and then press Enter
4. Enter your password when prompted and press Enter

Kindle a year on (almost)

As Christmas approaches, it's also the anniversary of my getting a Kindle. For a long time I'd eschewed such devices, thinking that a real life book was "better". But as I have digitised my music, photos and videos, this was the next step.

It's probably fair to say that one of the nice things about physical books is the ability to quickly flick back to an earlier section. However, the Kindle is in some ways better due to its search options, so it's easy to find where Dr So-and-so was previously mentioned.

Going on holiday was much easier with a Kindle compared to filling a large amount of space with heavy books. Reading on the beach was not an issue at all, and by having a Calibre set up to send me newspapers by Wi-Fi, I was able to see the news each day as well (and not have to wait for the British papers to arrive).

Being able to send articles from the net to the Kindle to read later (through such facilities as Send to Reader and Klip) is also very useful.

So, what have I read in this last year? Well, here goes:

The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan (The Strain itself starting on Christmas Day!)
The Naked and The Dead - Norman Mailer
The Snowman - Jo Nesbo
The Big Short - Michael Lewis
Handling the Undead - John Ajvide Lindqvist
Zombie Survival Guide
The Redbreast - Jo Nesbo
What The Dog Saw - Malcolm Gladwell
Be My Enemy - Christopher Brookmyre
Boiling A Frog - Christopher Brookmyre
Quite Ugly One Morning - Christopher Brookmyre
Country of the Blind - Christopher Brookmyre
Born Standing Up - Steve Martin
Solar - Ian McEwan
Nemesis - Jo Nesbo
Prey - Michael Crichton
Congo - Michael Crichton
The Lonely Dead - Michael Marshall
Blood of Angels - Michael Marshall (actually read on Android Phone using FBReader App)
The Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

And I've just started The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Analysis of the picture below can tell us a lot about how different people think.

Analysis of the picture below can tell us a lot about how different people think.:

- For young men, it’s a picture of a lady with a nice bum but only the most observant will notice that she is crossing a street.
- The really observant will notice that she is wearing a thong.
- For older men, she appears to be a respectable woman – with a nice bum – on her way to work.
- The perverts among them will imagine her naked.
- Wiser men will ponder the presence of mind of the photographer to take the shot in the face of such beauty and be grateful that they shared it with humanity.

- For half of the women, this is an ordinary woman who should not have left home dressed that way.
- The other half will think she is a slut but wonder where she bought that blouse.
- Older women will imagine the misery that the woman’s bum will cause by the time she reaches 50.

- But only children, the extremely intelligent and the celibate will notice that the taxi is being driven by a dog.

Gotcha’ , didn’t I. :-)