Sunday, 18 February 2024

Interviews with RJ Spina

 Interviews with R.J. Spina by Brian Scott:


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.

Saturday, 13 January 2018

How to Install Apps in Older iOS

Sometimes, a popular app (like Evernote) has a version compatible with older iOS, but it just does not allow you to download it, unless you have already owned it before. Here is how to get around it.

Step 1: Download iTunes (Business Environment)

The first step is to get an older iTunes which allows you to manage the apps directly from a laptop. If your iTunes does not allow you to manage apps, if you have uninstall it and download an older version.

Saturday, 6 January 2018

Learn to Meditate

You will find on these pages some basic instructions on how to meditate, which you can use right away to begin experiencing the peace and communion with the Divine that meditation brings.

Part 1: Correct Posture

Saturday, 30 December 2017

AAStocks Chart Codes

AAStocks is a popular stock market charting platform in Hong Kong. The market that it covers include HK shares, US shares, and currencies. Its charts are one of the most frequently embedded gadgets among different websites.

Since the charts could be custom-made with different indicators, periods, and so on, it helps to know the meaning of each table values which is retrieved from the hyperlink, and the available values it has.

Saturday, 23 December 2017

CSV format for Google Calendar

CSV format for Google Calendar contains the following elements:

-- Subject: title of your event or activity.
-- Start Date: the starting date of the event or activity.
-- Start Time: the starting time of the event or activity.
-- End Date: the ending date of the event or activity.
-- End Time: the ending time of the event or activity.
-- All Day Event: TRUE if an all-day event, else FALSE.
-- Description: the description of the event or activity.
-- Location: the location of the event or activity.
-- Private: TRUE if it is not seen in shared calendars, else FALSE.

Saturday, 16 December 2017

Excel Lookup to the Nearest, Above or Below

This article is about how use lookup function to find the nearest item above or below in Excel or Calc. Currently, the default function in VLOOKUP or HLOOKUP only rounds to the smaller value, so it takes a few tricks to round the value to the closest one above or below.

Let us consider the following practical example. Suppose there is a marathon race, and in case if you have no idea, it has a running distance of 42 km. The organiser has made the following rule regarding first aid. At each interval of 7 km, including the start and the finish, there shall be an first-aid station which helps the injured runners.In other words, there are altogether 7 stations in total. It is expressed in the table below: