Monday 18 June 2012

Rant 1011 / In Korea, Coke Is NSFW.




And that's why people should learn multiple languages from young. It helps them pronounce words properly that they would have a lot more difficulty to if they had to learn them in their adulthood.






















Spreadsheet wasn't the best idea. It could only display one graph at a time when I wanted multiple graphs plotted on the same pair of axes.

Looking for more of such free graph apps and right now I'm trying out Glimpse. The catch here is that the app itself does not allow data input so I have to import spreadsheets to do it. However it appears to be able to handle multiple graphs so there's hope.



















Monday. 5 mins to Monday.

This is the first time none of my staff goes to work on a normal weekday. Since it's been so quiet, I let one go on vacation with her family. Never expected the other one to have a rather urgent medical issue that required a visit to a specialist on the same day.

Having been to a few in the past, I know the dates available to someone who got a referral from a polyclinic aren't a lot. She's one of those skinny types with weak immune systems so I let her go as well.

Therefore my office is going to be empty.

This could be the first weekday ever in which I stay there for more than 5 hours, if I decide to go. However, judging from the trend in past few weeks, it's unlikely that I'll have much to do the entire time.

I'll probably just kill time with more data processing work.

Maybe even make an updated catalogue.

Haven't done anything about it in a long time because there hasn't been any need to. My current buyers need to physically check my goods so photos are mostly pointless after a certain point.

But today my housekeeper asked me about my stuff because a friend of hers was going to work in Finland. I couldn't help her without a catalogue and she can't go to my office except during her weekday off days. Even if I told her to look at the stores I work with, the only way for this to work is to get her to tell the items she want so that I can bring them home before her next visit here. It's not really by the book so I suggest it to people I know well.

It's not exactly a good idea to piss off the few buyers I have right at the beginning of my career.





















Thought about the plans I had long ago about my iPad and confirmed that I don't need a spare battery for it at all.

The battery lasts long enough for 3-4 days of use. Not saying it lasts this long for everyone but I don't use it for gaming a lot, and game apps are usually the most power-consuming apps. Mostly I use it for web-surfing, cloud storage and emails. Those don't use a lot of power.

As for Skype, feels kind of pointless now. I cannot lose my current phone number due to social inertia (changing a contact number is a pain especially when it's used for work) and I'm already using one of the cheapest post-paid mobile voice plans available.

Moreover, I also use emails and Whatsapp so a free phone line is not really worth the effort to convert to.

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