Whilst browsing the Internet I recently ran into an interesting (and probably totally unreallistic) idea: universities should be free from charge for all students. Their (i.e. universities’) income should be funded exclusively off a 10% tax charged unconditionally from all alumni for the first ten years after they graduate. This would – in theory – lead to situation where „better” schools would be feeding job market with „better” professionals which in turn would make them (again, just hypothetically) more money.
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0, 1, 8, 144 (EN)
While surfing the Internet I recently found an interesting (although completely incomprehensible) proof of a conjecture stating that 0, 1, 8 and 144 are the only perfect squares in the famous Fibonacci sequence.
For greenhorns: Fibonacci sequence starts with 0 followed by 1, then each subsequent terms is a sum of two preceding terms: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, … and so on, indefinitely.
Reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits, again
A little bird told me that car insurance prices are going up again this year – both in Ireland and in other EU countries.
Sh*t happens
As Confucius used to say, shit happens. He was a smart lad so there is no point not to believe him.
Shit that happens to happen is usually a bad shit. More or less. Ocasionally you discover that some of the bad shit happens only to unravel a surprisingly good shit later on which is exactly my case, right now.
As we all know[citation needed], people belong to one of the two groups: they either do backups on a regular basis, or they will be doing backups on a regular basis.
„I’m lazy, not stupid”
This is what my fellow colleague used to say when someone was trying to explain Things to him.
Being lazy is actually a good thing. It’s just that some people mix laziness with sloppiness which creates a negative perception of the former.
A short story about (in)consistency
Few years ago I made a small purchase for my blog: a WordPress menu plug-in called UberMenu. A really nice, fully featured, with all the necessary bells and whistles menu replacing the dull and boring thing you get from WordPress by default.
George Carlin: A Place For My Stuff
Actually, this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That’s all; a little place for my stuff. That’s all I want, that’s all you need in life, is a little place for your
A Third Variable
If you still remember my recent post on moving my hosting onto a brand new, shining VPS server (from an old, equally shining one) then I feel deeply sorry for you.
Memcached and W3TC
If you ever wondered why, despite all your efforts and Goole-jistsu, you still couldn’t get W3TC to detect your local memcached install, well. You haven’t googled enough 😉
Bloody Thursday
So, you think you know what „boring” means? You think you’ve watched some three hours of Parliament discussions about legal ways of composting farms’ waste, and you got bored? Well, you haven’t seen anything yet. The site you have just reached is the most dull, boring and useless part of the Internet.
Yop Poll – do not upgrade to 5.0!
If you are reading this post, chances are you are either one of my three returning visitors (although there is a possibility that some – or even all – of those three, died of boredom) or you recently tried to update the Yop Poll WordPress plugin from version 4.9.1 to 5.0, you lost all your wonderful polls and now you are frantically trying to Google for a solution and after getting through many, many Google result pages you finally got here.
Big G Down Again
Gmail went down for about half an hour this afternoon. This is a second disruption of the service in the last two weeks. I am starting to wonder whether I should move my email to another provider.
Any hints? Thoughts?