During my first block placement on the ambulances this year, I was confronted with dozens of new words and abbreviations I didn’t understand, and it took me a while to really come to terms with them. Here is a large but incomplete list of common terms used by ambulance staff and pre-hospital healthcare practitioners in …
Continue reading Ambulance lingo to keep up with your paramedic friends
I’ve been going through my photo collection and discovered I have gigabytes of photos stored in my camera’s RAW format (Olympus’ ORF format, in my case). Some of these photos have the potential to be great and just need some fine-tuning to really make them shine so would benefit from being in RAW, but the … Continue reading Convert RAW photos to JPG in OSX
I’ve been training my housemates’ toy poodle, Appa, for the last week, and have been making pretty good progress. He used to just jump up on people and get up on his hind legs when there was a treat around, but I’ve managed to make him sit nicely in order to get any treat, and … Continue reading Dog Training Videos and Thoughts
Vietnamese English Tiếng sáo ai lửng lơ Whose flute is hovering? Đêm nay ai mơ Who dreams tonight? Mơ giấc mơ giữa đời Dreaming a daily dream Để Mị nói cho mà nghe Let Mi tell you something Tâm hồn này chẳng để lặng lẽ This soul is not born to be silent Thương cha … Continue reading Hoàng Thuỳ Linh – Để Mị Nói Cho Mà Nghe – Lyrics (Eng/Viet side-by-side)
Vietnamese English I just wanna chill with you tonight I just wanna chill with you tonight And all the sorrow left behind uh oh And all the sorrow left behind uh oh Sometimes I feel lost in the crowd Sometimes I feel lost in the crowd Life is full of ups and downs Life is … Continue reading Đen ft. MIN – Bài Này Chill Phết lyrics (side by side English – Vietnamese)
I didn’t make these but they’re too good not to share. Playing cards for the various hazards to watch out for on Vietnamese roads. Continue reading Vietnamese Road Dangers
I want to do a full post on what I like in language learning resources and textbooks but for now I’ll just say that for learning Japanese, you can do a lot worse than reading everything that NHK World puts out. They have an audio series/podcast that is amazing and I just found this textbook … Continue reading NHK Japanese Resources
One of the best things I did for my Japanese, especially reading, was watching the news on TV most days. They put the subtitles and topics on screen most of the time so you can get a lot more practice. This is a good live stream to leave on for a while. Continue reading Watch Japanese News Live
In React 16, Facebook are deprecating the React.createClass() syntax for creating new components, preferring the new ES6 class method. Already from React 15.5.0, they start reminding you about this. They favour replacing var Greeting = React.createClass (); with class Greeting extends React.Component {} You should absolutely upgrade to the new ES6 way but that involves … Continue reading Using create-react-class in your React apps
We wanted to actually display the link’s description tag on the page but couldn’t find a way to do it. We were using {{ link(item.title, item.url) }} to render a link but we couldn’t get the title tag to show up in a Twig variable. Eventually with the use of {{ kint(item) }} and searching … Continue reading Show the link title/description in Twig template on Drupal 8
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