Uber is Excellent

I used the Uber black car service for the first time today.  The experience was fantastic.  After my first trip, I received this email: If you want a $20 Uber signup bonus, please use code 6a6zh.  You’ll get a $20 credit and I’ll get a $20 credit.  From their email “It’s the ultimate Uber win-win”.

Tortoise SVN and Delphi

In the Delphi IDE, from the menu select Tools > Configure Tools. The commands below will operate on the current file in the IDE editor. Title Program Parameters SVN Log TortoiseProc.exe /command:log /path:$EDNAME SVN Blame TortoiseProc.exe /command:blame /path:$EDNAME /line:$ROW /notempfile SVN Revert TortoiseProc.exe /command:revert /path:$EDNAME SVN Diff TortoiseProc.exe $SAVE /command:diff /path:$EDNAME SVN Revision Graph TortoiseProc.exe […]

Affects of Effects

According to Newton’s third law of motion “when one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body.” Based on this principle, one can conclude that for all cause and effects, every effect must affect the cause.  Therefore […]

Know thy self

According to Sun Tzu in The Art of War, “Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.”  However, I often find this advice more relevant “Know thy self and you know thy enemy. A thousand victories for the self-master.”