The BBC has ten useful driving tips to make your commute more pleasant.
Here are the tips.
1. Don’t misread the horn
2. Don’t change lanes in slow-moving traffic
3. Make eye contact when you can
4. Limit your commute to a quarter of an hour
5. Remember, you don’t own that parking space
6. Driving is a mental workout
7. Late merging is ok
8. Tailgating slows us all down
9. Treat all cyclists the same, helmet or no helmet
10. Learn from Lewis
(via Lifehacker)
I own a Sansa MP3 player. A few months ago I learned about RockBox, a replacement firmware for various MP3 players. I tried it and loved it. It’s like putting Linux on a computer. It’s more customizable and you have new features galore.
The other side of the coin is that, like Linux, it’s not without its glitches. For instance, you can’t sync via USB with the Rockbox firmware. When you connect, it fades to a white screen then loads the default firmware to do the syncing. That wasn’t a deal breaker for me, just a slight nuisance. You can play games on it (even Doom!), view actual JPEG images and video files without having to convert them. You can record audio direct to MP3s instead of WAV. It also handles regular playlists (even off the SD card) which was a big help as I didn’t like how the factory firmware dealt with playlists.
I upgraded to the latest version on September 23rd, then learned from Lifehacker that the 3.0 version was released on September 24th. I’m now running the stable version. To upgrade, just copy the new files on top of the existing installation.
Ahoy! Teday be Talk Like a Pirate Day matey. If’n ye be talkin’ normal like ye be a scurvy bilge rat.
This speed test shows you the most common words in the English language. That means if you practice typing them, you’ll improve your overall speed because they’ll come up more often.
My first try was 83wpm, but my cursor wasn’t in the text field for the first several seconds while I was typing. Make sure to click in the text field before you start typing. A space or an enter will move you to the next word. My second try is where I got 104wpm with no errors. That doesn’t mean I didn’t use the backspace - I just didn’t press space until I got it right.
104 words
Speed test
