This was an interesting conversation with Kevin Rudd about Chinese politics, especially that it was recorded prior to the COVID pandemic.
Month: October 2021
A tool I can’t live without: the Pentel Pocket Brush Pen
Austin Kleon provides a discussion of Pental Pocket Brush Pen, an elaboration of one of Austin Kleon’s gift guide.
So, you wanted to follow this nice website for new content, but it doesn’t have an RSS feed yet? Don’t worry, because Inoreader got you covered, again! Introducing Web feeds
Whenever you see a web page with a series of updates, be it news articles, blog posts, classifieds, product updates, weath…
Inoreader provide the means to turn any website into a RSS feed. My only concern with this is the dependancy on Inoreader, but it does make the process a lot easier. I created a feed for Double J. What disappoints me thought is that a site like www.abc.net.au used to fully embrace RSS. I do not get why they walked away from this?
11 track album
An interesting collection of modern ‘reworkings’ of Nirvana’s classic album.
Kim Acquaviva’s honest account of death is in contrast to how it is often presented in popular culture. For me, the classic is Max Bloom’s death in The OC, where Sandy goes off to get a coffee and comes back to find him passed away on.
One of the shocks when my mother passed away was when she stopped speaking. I did not realise that our last conversation was in fact our last conversation. It all seems somewhat logical now, but I certainly was not prepared. I think I was probably in denial until the end. I guess everything is easier in retrospect.
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I think that I need to play with the FLATTEN formula a bit to get my head around the possibilities.
Dan Manley, although I agree with the suggestions of top tips, such as checkboxes, cleanup suggestions and explore tool. I think I agree with David Krevitt that the most important tool worth grappling with is the QUERY formula. It is the answer to so many of my problems.
Congratulations Fi on making the shortlist.
Rachel Roddy is a marvellous conduit between the many cultures and kitchens of her adopted homeland and a world that simply cannot get enough of Italy. Her latest book is all about pasta, although she wisely recognised that there was little point in trying to be encyclopaedic. Instead, she chose 50 shapes on which to hang history, culture, personal stories and, of course, recipes and suggestions.
We met just in time for me to get this episode ready for World Pasta Day, today. We talked about the book, obviously, and also about many other aspects of pasta and Italian life. She did divulge what she is thinking of making to celebrate World Pasta Day. I won’t spoil the secret; you’ll just have to listen. What will you be making?
Listening to this discussion of pasta has me thinking about how much there is I either do not know or had never really thought about. Also, with the discussions of different regions, it has me reflecting upon how the idea of ‘Italian’ or ‘pasta’ is translated around the world to fit within the culture at hand. For example, growing up, I knew a knew a Malaysian whose Bolognese always had a kick to it.
Musca is the next in the series of domestic house albums to follow the groundbreaking LP classics Around The House (1998), and Bodily Functions (2001) both set for a special ‘21st anniversary of the Accidental label’ vinyl reissue on 16th July.
What entrances me about Matthew Herbert’s music is the subtly that make up his palette of found sounds. As David Murphy captures:
these bonsai bangers marry space and delicacy with vocals that are soulful but breathily intimate.
Another interesting aspect to Musca is the idea of a house album during the pandemic.
“Like presumably many other albums made during the last year, Musca reflects on navigating the challenges and joys of our most intimate relationships while the world is in turmoil,” says Herbert. “Not just with Covid-19, but with the rise in state and political violence, Facebook-friendly fascism, white supremacy and a climate in crisis.”
A podcast manager for Android. Contribute to AntennaPod/AntennaPod development by creating an account on GitHub.
I have long searched for a means of keeping record of the podcasts I listen to. Jeremy Cherfas recently discussed the script that he uses, but this was via Overcast which is not on Android. I have tried using URL Forwarder, but have had issues as the share feature includes the title and URL. I also tinkered with sharing via my feed reader, but that felt tedious.
I previously used Podcast Addict. I was happy enough with everything, other than the fact that I was unable to pull my listening data. In my semi-regular search for alternatives, I came across AntennaPod, an open source podcast player. From my initial experience, it looks and feels similar to Podcast Addict. However, unlike Podcast Addict, it provides access to the database. I am now tinkering with how I can do some sort of manual analysis once a month. This is not quite a webhook or an integration with something like IFTTT, but maybe gPodder.net might provide that if I can get it working.
Wouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)In the end, abusing our personal data has the opposite effect: we’re disgusted by companies that won’t leave us alone, even if we mail, call, and yell at them to please remove our data in accordance with the GDPR. Some bigger multimedia stores even ask for your ID card “to put the reductions on”. When queuing up at the cash register, I see 90% of the people in front of me whipping out their ID and handing it over, where it gets “scanned” somewhere behind the counter. All it takes is a no, although admittedly, I could do without the stress.
Remove objects, people, text and defects from any picture – 100% free. Create a clean background for a product picture 📸, re-design any items 👠, fill up some missing space for a youtube thumbnail 🎬, You can use it to iron your shirts 👕…etc!
Another online application for working with images. =
I found an online version of Goldfields today. I remember playing this when I was young at school and once even at Sovereign Hill. Not as complex as I am remember, but still a bit of fun. I also found a modern version, with a bit more nuance.
As teachers we need to stop focusing on the nouns (the tools) and focus more on the verbs. When you do that, the actual tools become far less important. In my opinion, the mark of a good technology user (and a great teacher) is being able to easily switch to new nouns while never losing sight of the verbs.
Chris, your discussion of Chromebooks reminds me of something that I wrote a few years ago about changing the mindset, rather than the program.
It has been interesting supporting Ms 5 during her learning at home. We started off using an iPad, but I found limitations in regards to typing in passwords and jumping between screens. Having a touchscreen Chromebook, I found that my daughter like the ability to pinch zoom on the screen, while also use the cursor and trackpad to select the next page.
It did not solve everything, I still find it useful to use the iPad to take photos and record videos. Even though I can treat my Chromebook as a ‘tablet’, it does not have the same form factor.
Great to see this script used in the wild for the first time John! And good to see it just works. Well, sort of. I’m glad you had the authorization
This seem so promising Frank and John. I have followed Drummer with intrigue, read Amit Gawande’s breakdown, but wondered where it fits with my current practices. I was intrigued by the connection with Micro Blogs. However, it was not until your post sharing the ability to connect with WordPress that I started to properly think about how I might use Drummer. I can imagine using it for ‘micro’ posts, but as you touch on, I am still unsure how this fits into with things like Post Kinds etc.
I guess I will have to start playing.
Dale, Norman Swan estimated that 5-11 would become eligible in the new year on the Coronacast on 22/10. Our youngest daughter lasted two days this week until told to stay home from school as their was an outbreak, seems a pertinent question to me.
Great question Rick. I am not sure Google Sites is comparable, but at least they are an option. Also, less to manage. I think the challenge in moving from Global2, to something like basic Edublogs, is access to all the same features. Personally speaking, I have a hosted blog via Reclaim Hosting.
Divine Intervention is the second studio album by Australian indie pop duo Client Liaison, released on 1 October 2021.
I remember seeing Client Liaison perform for the first time for ABC’s New Years Eve This Night is Yours concert. One cannot help be transfixed. Are they for real? I guess artifice comes in many shapes and sizes.
Their new album continues along this journey, this time in search for a higher power. There is something about their slick sound that leaves me both full and yet wanting more. In some ways, just as Roger and Brian Eno’s album felt like the perfect album for the start of the pandemic and the world wide lockdown, Divine Intervention seems the right album to shake out the blues and get out on the dancefloor again (even if that dancefloor may be alone in a kitchen with headphones or while watching an hour of crochet.)
One of the other aspects that interests me about this album are the various writers and producers in support, including Nick Littlemore, Dann Hume and Francois Tetaz.
Place between The Midnight and Red Hearse.
Marginalia
If Client Liaison started a cult, there’d be plenty of people queuing for the front door – and Divine Intervention is a great text of holy works, filled with anti-corporate goodness and an adamance for the cure of the club. Let’s hope the next testament is as exciting.
While it’s impossible to look past recent singles such as “Champagne Affection”, “Strictly Business”, or the infectious “Elevator Up”, the rest of the record truly feels like something akin to a ‘greatest hits’ package for Client Liaison.
Sure, some naysayers might write off their music as being a little cheesy, but when you’re having this much fun, does it really matter?
Client Liaison know who they are and what they do, and they play to those strengths without hesitation. Even if you’re not willing to play along, there’s no denying the hooky craft of Divine Intervention – immaculately produced synthpop soaked in hooks and kitsch that’s making sure you’re having as much guilt-free fun as they are.
When you’re autonomous and might not have too much responsibility or not have a family and things like that, then the truth doesn’t really matter. And that’s why people nowadays feed themselves their own narratives. And it kind of speaks to how the world works.
So I guess Divine Intervention was us realising that. Like all else has gone, let’s throw in the towel and return to our primitive ways and embrace higher religion or something. It was “Reject everything”, a bit of a crisis with the world and just be like, “We need a divine intervention, something bigger needs to come down” because everything’s just a bit crazy and chaotic and truth no longer exists. So if truth doesn’t exist, then let the clouds part and come down, Jesus.
With the NFT boom, a lot of people would be somewhat familiar with what NFTs are, it’s a new marketplace. We wanted to participate in that because we thought we’d do so whilst also making comments about the nature of NFTs as well. It’s quite self-reflective. NFT’s are somewhat intangible, so we thought it would be fun if we actually sell something that’s even more intangible than the NFT itself as a sort of comment on NFTs.
So there’s a bit of subtext and conceptual slant to the act itself and we thought it would be fun. At the end of the day, it kind of says that Client Liaison belongs to all the people and it’s yours, it’s not just selling the soul of Client Liaison it’s like giving it back to the fans.
I know that to highlight a row based on a specific value, I would put the custom formula in conditional formatting as =$C2=”Apples”
However, I want the rule to apply to any row in which the C column contains the word Marketing (for example to highlight all cells that say Green Apples or Red Apples.
Also, is there a way to utilize the OR function in conditional format the entire row if C column contains Green Apples or Bananas?
Using a combination of OR and SEARCH to format a row based on a particular word within a cell:
I’ll start with your second one since it is easier:
=OR($C2=”Green Apples”, $C2=”Bananas”)
That will highlight the entire row if either condition is true.
For the first one, try this:
=SEARCH(“Green Apples”,$C2)
Or you can combine it with the OR method above to get this:
=OR(SEARCH(“Green Apples”,$C2),SEARCH(“Red Apples”,$C2))