Sunday, 13 January 2019

The Tin Gee Gee

The Tin Gee Gee 
by Fred Cape

I was strolling one day down the Lawther Arcade,
That place for children's toys,
Where you can purchase a dolly or spade
For your good little girls and boys.
And as I passed a certain stall, said a wee little voice to me:
O, I am a Colonel in a little cocked hat, and I ride on a tin Gee Gee;
O, I am a Colonel in a little cocked hat, and I ride on a tin Gee Gee.

Monday, 31 December 2018

My First Meditation with SRFHK

So today is the last day of the calendar year of 2018. Since look-backs will soon flood the Facebook feeds like waterfall, I see no reason not to join the flow. One of the most memorable things I have done in 2018 is joining an intensive two-hour meditation with a worldwide organisation dedicated to spiritual development with all people.

It all started when I began to read the Autobiography of a Yogi by the famous Yogi—Paramahamsa Yogananda. It was the only book found in Steve Jobs’ iPad as he was gone, and hundreds of copies of the book were also given away during his memorial service. It was also the favourite book of Beatles member George Harrison, who freely gave away a copy to others from a large stock in his home. It gives you an idea how much these two men valued the book.

Saturday, 20 January 2018

Alt Codes for Drawing Characters


Box-drawing characters are a form of semi-graphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes with monospaced fonts. Although less useful to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs. However, they are still useful for command-line interfaces and plain-text comments within source code. Used along with box-drawing characters are block elements, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen and portraying drop shadows. Below are the Alt codes for the most common box-drawing characters.