Happy Birthday Kiwi!

If there is a special day, it’s today. Happy Birthday Kiwi!

Some German for dummies

For being prepared to my December's adventure and the rest of my life, I bought a pocket-size useful German phrases book. But it is not enough to learn. It's that kind of books only for asking and don't understand the answers, good for tourists. Finally I bought a book for learning German called “German easy essential”. 

Very nice structured, with this I feel I can learn.

PortableApps – Mines-Perfect

I’m an addicted of Mines sweeper since I started to use Windows. I don’t consider myself a pro, just someone who likes challenges and keep my record was an obsession in all the machines at home. I also programmed one version in Pascal and C++ using the recursive algorithm and a lot of creativity to paint the board without using GUI.

PortableApps suite brings this version, Mines-Perfect. The most fascinating thing is that you can change the shape of the cells. This one is my current record in hexagonal shape:

Maybe someday I could be included in the world ranking (http://www.minesweeper.info/worldranking.html), but I have to prepare a strategy for that.

Vocabulary - Days, Months, Seasons

The story of stuff with Annie Leonard

My best friend sent me this link. Recycling is more than only classify garbage or turn of lights, it’s a big change in our lifestyle.

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Here is the first part of it:

PortableApps - Toucan

Some posts ago, I was looking for a backup solution, and while testing PortableApps I found Toucan. Toucan is an open source program to backup your information. Some of the features include synchronization, backup and encryption.

Sincerely, I didn’t test it too much, because at first sight doesn’t look too much efficient. My first test failed, I configured a backup profile and performed it, but as the USB drives change their letters when connected to Windows, I could not make it work between my laptop and PC, and that discouraged me to continuing trying.

My second try was successful but not amazing, only copied and zipped my contents. About synchronization and remembering my experiences, I prefer don’t try it until I test deeply the backup option.

Copy-and-paste is still my backup strategy.

Vocabulary - Colours

Colours are very important to describe things. In this chart are the basic ones, I hope add some other ones in the future. The bad news is I couldn’t find “turquoise” in Japanese, so if somebody know it, please share.

Color (Español)

Colours (English)

Farbe (Deutsch)

Iro (Nihongo)