Random shots. Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!

Random shots. House phone.

And someone has inscribed an oh so witty message on the adjacent message pad.

Cleaning the Apple aluminium keyboard – don’t!

As a user of this keyboard, which frankly I am extremely underwhelmed with, I was both amused and horrified to read this article.

I make no apologies for disliking this “design icon” from the hallowed design department of Apple, and of course with it’s white keys it gets dirty pretty fast – I use a wipe over with glass cleaner to bring the keys back up to a decent appearance – and I dislike the feedback that the keys give, but hey, I am no touch typist, so when I found this article via Boing Boing I had a quiet chuckle to myself whilst also realizing that there is no way that this thing can be seen as a self-maintainable product. Mind you, one could say that of so many Apple products, sealed batteries and the arcane Mac Mini case opening procedures spring to mind.

I remember cheerfully taking a basic Logitech keyboard into the shower, scrubbing it clean under running water, rinsing it out, drying it off, and it was back to looking and feeling brand new. I doubt that I will do the same with this one.

(Picture shamelessly copied from the original article)

Sometimes, you just have to be thankful.

And stop complaining! Roof over your head? Food on your table? Family – OK, maybe a mixed blessing sometimes – all healthy. Loving friends? And you haven’t just experienced an earthquake or Hurricane?

In the modern era of jealousy, greed and rapacious selfishness – “So one secret of happiness is to ignore comparisons with people who are more successful than you are: always compare downwards, not upwards.” Richard Layard, 2005.

And for all time:

“It put me to reflecting, how little repining there would be among mankind, at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that are worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complainings.” Daniel Defoe, 1719.

Wants, needs and desires.

New helmets are beginning to display the technology that has for a long time been available in cars, and about time too! These two beauties have hook-ups for Bluetooth headsets, direst connection to mobile phones, and potentially useful for me, the ability to connect to a GPS system for turn-by-turn directions.

As people who have ridden with me know, I suffer from “directional dyslexia” – also known as “can’t find my couch in the living room with a map” syndrome – and I can’t wait to get some decent GPS system hooked up  to my bike. Caveat: When they become affordable!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taken from Wired.com.

Random shots. Mooncupcakes.

Photo taken by Yasmin.