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Celebrating Workarounds, Kludges, and Hacks
itwbennett writes: We all have some favorite workarounds that right a perceived wrong (like getting around the Wall Street Journal paywall) or make something work the way we think it ought to. From turning off annoying features in your Prius to getting around sanctions in Crimea and convincing your Android phone you're somewhere you're not, workarounds are a point of pride, showing off our ingenuity and resourcefulness. And sometimes artful workarounds can even keep businesses operating in times of crisis. Take, for example, the Sony employees, who, in the wake of the Great Hack of 2014 when the company's servers went down, dug out old company BlackBerrys that, while they had been abandoned, had never had their plans deactivated. Because BlackBerrys used RIM's email servers instead of Sony's, they could still communicate with one another, and employees with BlackBerrys became the company's lifeline as it slowly put itself back together.
What hacks and workarounds keep your life sane?
i'm kinda LOW tech.
http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1, of course!
Red tape, to slow down upstart competitors
Do Not Cross - Crime Scene tape, to prank your co-worker
Audio tape, to reveal the hypocrisy of politicians
With all the clever hacks and workarounds people are posting, I'm ashamed to say my best is using a steak knife as a screwdriver.
It could be worse. I'm eating steak off of a screwdriver :{
You want me to confess to creating 2^16 unauthorized derivative works?
I introduced sardines to my daughters as desert, and only give it to them as a treat. Now they enjoy an inexpensive, healthy snack when other kids demand ice cream and chocolate. If that's not a hack, then I don't know what is.
No offence, but are your kids retarded, or do you just lock them up in the basement away from any other human contact?
I find it hard to believe they don't know what "sweet" tastes like.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it