Disclaimer: I’ve written this post a few days after I came back from CakeFest 2014. Unfortunately, it is unfinished, and by now I have completely lost hope of ever finishing it. My main excuse is that the first day after CakeFest was my first working day at my new job, which completely and totally consumed … Continue reading CakeFest 2014 : a look back
HipChat – the greatest team communication tool since IRC – released its updated web interface to the world. I’ve seen it before, as I opted into the beta testing, and I’m glad they’ve finally pushed it out to all users. Â It’s awesome, slick, and completely out of the way. And if you haven’t tried … Continue reading HipChat releases the new web interface to the world
Today Skype failed to log me in on one of my Fedora Linux laptops. Â That, I guess, is a part of the force upgrade to Skype 4.3. Â While doing so, I came across two issues: Download Skype page is broken in Google Chrome. Â After choosing the Linux distribution nothing happens. Â Switching to Firefox helps. The … Continue reading Upgrading to Skype 4.3 on Linux
Ergophobia, (derived from the Greek “ergon” (work) and “phobos” (fear); also called ergasiophobia), is an abnormal and persistent fear (or phobia) of work (manual labor, non-manual labour, etc) or finding employment. Ergophobia may also be a subset of eithersocial phobia or performance anxiety. Sufferers of ergophobia experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their fear may actually be a … Continue reading Ergophobia – a fear of work
A few years ago I posted the link to SnowCrystals.com, which had a whole lot of photographs of snowflakes. Â It’s time to have a fresher look at the beauty of those ice crystals up-close. Â Via kottke.org, I came across this Flickr collection of close-up images of snowflakes done by photographer Alexey Kljatov. Some are extremely … Continue reading Snowflakes, close-up