From Online Tech Tips:

“Ever had to copy a bunch of files from one location on your local hard drive to another place with a lot of files with the same name? Well there are really only two options that you have when there are files with the same name: either replace the destination files or leave the destination files as they are and only copy the new files. 

… 

Luckily, there is still a stealthy way to tell Windows not to overwrite all the files with name conflicts and thereby skip them over. You can create this “No to All” functionality by simply pressing and holding the SHIFT key when you click the No button in the Confirm File Replace dialog box.” 

I like that a lot, Hank

via Lifehacker 

Sounds good to me

http://s3.amazonaws.com/manifestogame2/devastro/Devastro_Demo_setup.exe 

http://downloads.escapistmagazine.com/games/yahtzee/artoftheft.zip 

Mmmm om nom nom nom.

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

3 heads of garlic
2 pounds potatoes peeled and quartered
1 stick of butter
1/2 cup of half and half
salt and pepper to taste

Roast the garlic in the oven by the usual method (slicing the tops off, drizzling olive oil on, etc).

Squeeze the garlic cloves out into a bowl. Mash the garlic into a paste. Boil the potatoes 15-20 minutes until they’re soft in the middle (test with a fork).

When they are ready to mash, drain off the water and place the pot back on very low heat. Stir for a few minutes to dry out the potatoes a little. You’ll be moistening the potatoes with cream and butter, so allow some of the excess water to evaporate. Give it about 5 minutes, but make sure the heat is very low. You don’t want to burn the potatoes, just dry them out a little.

Remove the potatoes from the heat. Add the garlic and butter. Mash the butter and garlic into the potatoes. Start beating with a spoon and add cream as you go. Continue until the potatoes are smooth. Salt and pepper to taste.

Garlic lovers will go ape over this. It’s not a lowfat or local recipe. So don’t eat it every day. You can probably get away with reducing the fat because the garlic flavor is intense. But I don’t mess with success in this case.

This article has some very good advice if you’re thinking of going down the freelance road.

10 Absolute “Nos!” for Freelancers  

The biggy for me is Number 3) Will you register and host my site? No. 

“You see, once the client thinks that you are responsible for their email and website functionality, you WILL get called all the time when their email shows the slightest wavering or their website 404s for any reason on their home computer.” 

True dat.

See? Makes perfect sense

Basically, eating 6 Saltines (a type of cracker) in 60 seconds. I haven’t tried this myself, and it seems to be one of those things where you say, “nah, it can’t be that hard can it?”. I’ll have to see what the equivalent of Saltines is over here, and give it a bash.

Purely for research purposes, of course.

Via J-Walk 

“The SkySails system consists of a towing kite with rope, a launch and recovery system and a control system for the whole operation. The control system acts like the autopitot systems on an aircraft, the company says. Autopilot software sends and receives data about the sail etc to make sure the sail is set at its optimal position. The company also says it provides an optional weather routing system so that ships can sail into optimal wind conditions.The kites typically fly at about 1,000 feet above sea level, thereby tapping winds that can be almost 50% stronger than at the surface. “ 

Via /. 

I have a whole load of entries starred on Google Reader. It would be cool if when you starred an article it would ask for a comment, and then allow you to post that automatically to your blog. Not that I am terminally lazy or anything.

BTW, Ecto rocks. A version for windows is available too.

Via Ursi’s Blog