Author: Leonid Mamchenkov

TEDxNicosia 2013 – RE-Think. RE-Generate. RE-Act.

Since the last TEDxNicosia event back in 2011, everyone and their brother were asking: “When?  When is the next one?  And how do I get there?”  Well, guess what – the next TEDxNicosia event is this Saturday (March 9, 2013)!

That’s the good news.  The bad news are that the event is totally sold out.  In fact, all tickets were sold out in 72 hours!   If you don’t have a ticket now,  you aren’t going this time.  Sad, I know.  But that’s not all the news either.  I have more.

(drum roll, nervous shaking, breath in, breath out, … go!)

Marina Theodotou, the event organizer, has invited me to attend the event in the capacity of the blogger.  Yes, that’s right.  This is my first “official” time.  I’ll be there for the whole day, blogging, tweeting, snapping pictures, and what not.  I’ll tell you all about it.  I promise.  But before I even start, here is the disclaimer:  the only compensation/gain that I received or will receive is the complimentary ticket to the event (Thank you, Marina).  All of the views, opinions, writing, tweets and images posted on this blog or in social networks under my accounts, are of my authorship, unless otherwise stated. 

Now, with that cleared, I have to say that I am super exciTED.  I can’t wait to get there, listen to speeches and presentations, and hang out with some really cool people.  Just a couple of days to go!

Twenty five letters only

Here is my try on this tricky puzzle:

There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!)

You see, I only quoted the post for some context. There’s no problem, I think. More so, for someone who’s mother tongue is different.  I come from Russki territories. We use letters which were borrowed from Greece.  We just exploded them from twenty four to thirty three. Possibly, there is our lesson of unneeded letters.  We will survive with more.  We will survive with less. There is no problem.

I’m only trying things out here.  It looks like I might do this forever.

Now, going back.  It’s not difficult. You only need to word thoughts differently.  The use of tools like Internet (World Wide Web) or word lists might help.  Even with the vowels.  I should refer you to the letter frequency resource.  The letter I’m ignoring is the second most used.  (Much less so in this post.)  But I write just fine without it.  It is limiting, tricky even.  However one could get used to it.

Do you think it’s worth the try?  Try.  Let me know in the comments how it goes.

P.S.: The URLs of the links I do not control.

DriveDroid

DriveDroid

This seems handy.  Description from the app page:

DriveDroid allows you to boot your PC from ISO/IMG files stored on your phone. This is ideal for trying Linux distributions or always having a rescue-system on the go… without the need to burn different CDs or USB pendrives.

DriveDroid also includes a convenient download menu where you can download USB-images of a number of operating systems from your phone.

You can also create USB-images which allows you to have a blank USB-drive where you can store files in. Another possibility is to use tools on your PC to make a bootable USB-drive out of the blank image that DriveDroid created.