No Wifi – Talk to each other! Pretend it’s 1993!

Do you remember the days when you used to go to a coffee shop to meet and talk with new people?

Well, it is no longer the case. You go to a coffee shop and you see people with headphones absorbed in their own bubbles or just glued to their smartphone screens!

It takes more efforts these days to strike a conversation with strangers because you have to find the right way not to interrupt or annoy people as you start a conversation.

Often times, I also go to a coffee shop to work and focus and thus I don’t want to talk to new people. But even still, often times I want to take a break and meet/talk to strangers. Continue reading “No Wifi – Talk to each other! Pretend it’s 1993!”

December 12, 2016December 14, 2016

MacBook keyboard keys

In this blog post, I am going to share with you how to get the lacking keyboard keys on a MacBook’s keyboard.

Essentially, you are missing the following keys:

HOME / END.
DEL key. This is different from the MacBook’s “Delete” key (which is equivalent to the “Backspace” key).
Page Up / Page Down.

Continue reading “MacBook keyboard keys”

December 10, 2016July 15, 2017

7 simple methods to achieve success in life

Study hard when you’re young
Work hard when you’re older
Never shy away from making connections
Leverage your network for opportunities
Life 10% below your means -> save 10% of your income
Don’t foster any addictions (alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling)
Don’t fall for scams

Those really are “proven steps”!

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December 5, 2016August 23, 2018

Batchography: How to do string substitution in the Batch scripting language?

There are so many undocumented or obscure features in the Batch scripting language and in this article I am going to illustrate how to do string substitution.

For more advanced Batch scripting topics, please grab a copy of the Batchography book.

Let’s get started! Continue reading “Batchography: How to do string substitution in the Batch scripting language?”

December 3, 2016July 2, 2017

The stereogram experience

I first learned about stereograms in 2001. Back then, the term was new to me and I had no idea that it was possible to see 3D shapes on a 2D screen with the naked eyes.

What are stereograms you ask?

A diagram or computer-generated image giving a three-dimensional representation of a solid object or surface

Wikipedia, as usual, has a nice article explaining stereograms.

After a long week of trying hard, researching and learning various techniques, I managed to see my first stereogram:

Continue reading “The stereogram experience”

November 27, 2016July 15, 2017

I found a “Million Dollar Bill” in a park in Manhattan, NY

The other day, while walking around and exploring Manhattan, NY, I decided to stop and rest in the nearest park. On the bench where I sat, there was this $1,000,000 dollar bill next to me:

On the back of the bill, the following text is found:

As it turns out, LivingWaters.com think it is a nice way to use a fake bill to draw the attention of the people to the bible.

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October 31, 2016October 23, 2016

Batchography – Programming the “Hangman game” using the Batch scripting language!

In this blog post, I am going to share with you the high level steps needed to build the Hangman game using the Batch scripting language.

To learn more about how the Hangman is programmed using the Batch scripting language, please refer to Chapter 5 in the Batchography book.

Get the book from Amazon:

the print edition
or the e-book edition

Continue reading “Batchography – Programming the “Hangman game” using the Batch scripting language!”

October 29, 2016May 13, 2018

3 easy steps to setting up a zero configuration multi-platform web server with NodeJS and local-web-server

In this technical post I am going to illustrate how you can use the simple local-web-server package for NodeJS to start your web server in a few commands.

Let’s get started!

Step 1 – Installation

First, install NodeJS from http://nodejs.org/download/

If you are using Windows, then make sure you download the MSI package because it is so easy to install.

Keep the default options as you’re installing:

After installing NodeJS, open an elevated command prompt (i.e: run cmd.exe as Administrator) and type the following command in order to install the local-web-server package:

npm install -g local-web-server

You should see something like this:

No errors imply that the package has been successfully installed! Continue reading “3 easy steps to setting up a zero configuration multi-platform web server with NodeJS and local-web-server”

October 27, 2016October 29, 2016

Microsoft Surface Studio – A cool All-in-one computer but what’s with 6:18?

During the October 2016 Microsoft event, Microsoft announced the Surface Studio all-in-one computer and I really like it! Good job Microsoft!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMLA8YIgG0

But…I could not help but notice the time and the date on the screen poster to be 6:18 (which is also Saturday, June 18th, 2016)…

Any thoughts?

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October 24, 2016August 21, 2018

How to turn your bookshelf into an e-book library: Digitizing all of your books

Since I moved to the US, I collected around 350 books. I love books and the thought of giving them up is not a pleasant thought.

Each time I used to move from an apartment to another, the majority of boxes would be packed with books. Each time I travel somewhere for a long period, I miss being able to grab a book from my bookshelf and start reading (most of my books are old and they do no exist in digital format anyway). It is clear that I have attachment to those books.

To break this attachment, I had to make a couple of decisions. The first was whether to just forget about the books, leave them on the shelves and get myself busy with another chore. The other decision was whether to scan and /or give away the books. With that came other questions like how to scan books and convert them to eBooks, what methods to use, how much efforts would it take to convert the books, etc.

I decided to get rid of the books and the trim down on the space they occupy. For the reasons outlined later in this blog post, I chose to destructively scan my books. By scanning the books, I get a digital and searchable copy of my books (in PDF format).

In this blog post, I will share with you different ways you can use to digitize books and then the remainder of this blog post will illustrate how I destructively digitized all of my books and what tools I used. Continue reading “How to turn your bookshelf into an e-book library: Digitizing all of your books”

October 23, 2016

The 8 methods of teaching – By Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. Aurobindo studied for the Indian Civil Service at King’s College, Cambridge, England. After returning to India he took up various civil service works under the maharaja of the princely state of Baroda and began to involve himself in politics. He was imprisoned by the British for writing articles against British rule in India. He was released when no evidence was provided. During his stay in the jail he had mystical and spiritual experiences, after which he moved to Pondicherry, leaving politics for spiritual work. — Wikipedia

In this article, I am going to discuss my thoughts about his teaching methods and how much they resonate with my own teaching methods. Continue reading “The 8 methods of teaching – By Sri Aurobindo”

September 28, 2016January 1, 2017

Landmarks, Museums, Parks, Markets, and other recreational sites

This article contains a collection of various landmarks, museums, parks, markets and other recreational sites that have been featured in this blog:

Cities

Museums

Places

September 9, 2016August 28, 2016

The idea behind this method is to run commands that are known to fail and return a non-zero error code if they are not executed with administrative privilege.

The Batch script would then check the return code and act accordingly:

@echo off


:: 
:: The Batchography book by Elias Bachaalany
::


net session >nul 2>&1

if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
  echo Requires administrative privilege.
  goto :eof
)

echo Script starts here...

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