I’m a big fan of Richard Wiseman’s: he’s a clever chap, and it’s worth dipping into his books or YouTube videos if you’ve a gap in your to-read/to-watch list. Recently, he’s added a few videos on grammar to his In 59 Seconds YouTube channel — each is a cute mnemonic with a quiz at the end to reinforce the concept. Here’s a quick round up of what’s there so far; hopefully there’s more to come. 🙂 Enjoy!
Author: smurphy
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Getting scammed
It’s embarrassing to admit, but I got scammed a while ago. I twigged reasonably quickly what was going on, tho, and decided to draw the experience out to see what my scammer was up to and how it would play out. Not sure if my scammer figured out he’d been rumbled, because things just fizzled out around the time they should’ve got juicy, so there’s no big payoff at the end. (I’ll save you the trouble of reading and being disappointed!) Here’s the story and the lessons learned so that someone else might avoid any financial/time losses in future. Continue reading “Getting scammed”
Pandoc
I’m a bit of a junkie for markup languages: I’ve used many, experimented with more, and am always eager to try a new one. Pandoc is a delight of a tool that allows you to convert from one markup language to another. There’s a proper, installable tool you can put on your local machine to handle full files, which will do a whole lot of the work for you, but you’ll still need to do some clean up on the results.
Something I find useful in itself, though, is the Try pandoc online demo. Continue reading “Pandoc”
Retrieving deleted files on Google Drive
Previously, I described how you can retrieve earlier versions of a file on Google Drive if you realise you need to roll back for any reason. But what if you’ve already deleted the file you want to roll back to? Well, again, subject to policy and space availability, Google Drive may well allow you to retrieve an archived version of a deleted file too. Continue reading “Retrieving deleted files on Google Drive”
Retrieving old file versions on Google Drive
I use Google Drive (and other cloud-based file storage systems) to access materials from a variety of locations, to share content easily with local and remote collaborators, and to have the reassurance of there being an off-site backup of what I’m working on. As an added bonus, I’ve recently discovered that if you realise you’ve messed up and over-edited a file, and would be better off starting over with a version from earlier in the day, or a few days ago, or a few weeks ago, you can access a list of the available versions of a particular file and reopen an earlier one to work with! Continue reading “Retrieving old file versions on Google Drive”