I prefer to use Microsoft Word for most of my writing but I really like Markdown. I prefer Word because its spell and grammar checker is superior to every other word processor or text editor I have tried. In addition, word has text to speech build in. I use text to speech to have my…
Update: I have since moved back to WordPress. You can read more about that in my article Back on WordPress. For a while now, I have been using the static site generator (Pelican) for my website/blog. There are pros and cons to both platforms and I have had a lot of trouble deciding which to…
I have been very focused on learning new coding skills and getting as much experience with programming as possible these past couple of years while studying Computer Science to make the chance of getting a job greater. However, while I got a job just after graduating. I never stopped using a lot of my spare…
Back in August, I wrote this post where I explained why I moved back to OneNote after trying to move my note-taking workflow to plain text with markdown syntax. Well, it did not happen. For me to go back to OneNote was simply not possible and here is why. In the time, I have used…
The Dell Venue 8 Pro is an 8-inch tablet running Microsoft Windows 8.1 Pro. The “Pro” version of Windows indicates that it is the full version of Windows capable of running modern apps as well as normal Windows programs. How useful it is to run legacy applications on an 8-inch screen is questionable. However, the…
Some weeks back I switched my note-taking and writing workflow to a plain text and Markdown-based system. I wrote about it in the blog post titled I Say Goodbye to OneNote. The switch sent me on a workflow rollercoaster and it ended with a crash. Therefore, I have reset my workflow to where it last…
The Whisker Menu has become the default menu in Xubuntu 14.04. I really like the Whisker menu. The Whiskers menu is one of the first things I installed on an XFCE desktop and has been since I discovered it a couple of years ago. However, the default look of the menu is not that exciting….
After the developers of TrueCrypt declared the encryption suite insecure and recommended users of TrueCrypt to find other solutions. I have been doing just that. It turns out TrueCrypt was a unique product. No other encryption program has the same functionality and is cross-platform. After a failed attempt to find a replacement for TrueCrypt, I…
Not too long ago I switched from a Djangobased blog I wrote myself, to WordPress. I switched because I did not have the time to keep adding features and keep it up-to-date. I chose WordPress because I had used it before and it is quite fast and easy to set up and get going. Via…
The way most people use a USB stick is to just work directly from it. However, that is the wrong way of doing it. That is why I will show you how to use git on a USB stick Working directly from the USB stick has several problems to it. Only one copy Difficult to…
