A simpler way to a better life
While some people don’t like to have work colleagues as friends on Facebook some do. In the latter case there are many reasons why you may want to temporarily or permanently stop them from seeing your status updates. Here’s how.
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In our previous post on Things that Geeks do that you should too we should have included setting your Facebook privacy settings.
It would be nice to assume that Facebook (and other similar sites) have their user’s best interests at heart. While Facebook is a great site, you must be very careful about how you set it up because Facebook it not generally regarded as a trustworthy company (see Wikipedia’s entry about privacy concerns and the wonderful Jason Calacanis‘ message to Facebook’s CEO).
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Sorry for the lack of updates. Like so many people I’ve been stuck in another country because of the ash cloud. To compensate, here’s a joke about it taken from Sickipedia (NSFW).
Hats off to the Icelandic people.
First they declared themselves bankrupt…
Then they set their island on fire….
Anyone else smell the mother of all insurance frauds?
Whenever we move to somewhere that we don’t know anyone we want to make friends quickly. Here’s LifeButBetter’s guide to maximising your friend-making chances. Continue reading ‘Make friends in a new town’
Weekly grocery shopping is a chore that all families have to endure. With a little forethought and planning you can make it less stressful and cheaper.
If you really prefer either tea or coffee then when you’re offered either it’s an easy choice. However if you like both, here’s a little trick for you.
Increasing your vocabulary is not easy so it’s important that you only learn words that will be useful. Here are two simple ideas to make this possible.
It’s always tempting to splash out on expensive kitchen appliances. People’s cupboards are stuffed with bread makers, ice-cream makers and a multitude of mixing and chopping devices. While these can be fun and sometimes useful, they also take up a lot of room and tend to gather dust. However, some kitchen utensils are much much smaller, cheaper and for certain jobs are absolutely what you need. Here are some must-have cooking utensils.
If someone is following you through a door, it’s only polite if you hold the door open for them. However if the person is still several steps away they’ll either jog, awkwardly towards the door or feel bad for making you stand and wait. Either situation is embarrassing for both of you. Worse still, whenever you go through a door in public you have to make a judgement call on whether the next person is far enough away to let the door swing shut. They might think they were close enough when you didn’t, and now you appear mean.
A lot of us are getting pretty good at keeping track of our own actions, with paper and online todo lists. However, many of our projects rely not only on us doing stuff but also others.
