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2013-06-18 07:37:07 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

I ran into this graph about projected population by country. Never knew large countries were going to decline except Nigeria. Wonder why that is.

I was actually at first looking for a graph with pies representing their sizes. I saw it a few days ago. Anyone can point me to it?

2013-06-17 06:42:25 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 11 +1s)

Why is PRISM called PRISM? Not because it's an aconym, no, as explained here http://twit.tv/show/security-now/408 from minute 57 (for about half an hour). It's because a splitter taps fiber-optic cables close to Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc. It splits off the fiber-optic light signal. What does a prism do? It splits off the light signal!
It's not even new. Below is a picture of 2003 established and in 2006 exposed en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A (as pictured)

2013-06-16 07:38:49 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I've flowed 0 words thanks to SwiftKey!

2013-06-14 08:23:43 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 36 +1s)

6 years of marriage, and counting!

2013-06-13 08:32:46 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

It's supposed to be a dog

2013-06-12 08:06:44 (34 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

On weekdays they live in minuscule rooms behind the kitchens. On Sundays and statutory holidays (like today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duanwu_Festival ) they live in a box. #hongkonghelpers #threehundredthousandofthem

2013-06-11 07:48:29 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Both front teeth are out now. More Orbeez brought by the tooth fairy

2013-06-10 05:25:53 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 37 +1s)

My favourite neighbour is +jane chiang (married to +Charles Yonts from Spread Eagle, WI in my profile). Jane founded and owns the restaurants Mary Jane's Pizza in Taiwan and she made son(4) this Angry Birds pizza. Thx, Jane

2013-06-09 06:59:01 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Daughter(6)'s loose tooth demo (5 seconds)

2013-06-08 06:04:15 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

In Hong Kong hoef je dus nooit honger te lijden

2013-06-07 07:34:06 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

A 1977 Rolls Royce.
I know the owner.

2013-06-06 05:31:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

If you're looking for a job on LinkedIn, change your name so that it reflects your thoughts.

2013-06-05 07:32:35 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

+Paul Yu made a great little time lapse movie but it's limited so I got you this screenshot. From last night! Beautiful! 

2013-06-04 05:53:44 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)

Fortunately I am lazier than vain since my teeth are sticking out far on this pic but I'll keep it. 
Thx, +Sean Clarke for making and sending these three so cool shirts. For each kid one. And thx +Theo Poon for proving I'm not very vain (or very lazy) by shooting this picture. Thx, +Florentijn Hofman for bringing Rubber Ducky to Hong Kong. Thx, mom +Hella Voute-Droste for having me. Thx, +Laurian de Ru, for bearing our children so we could buy them these shirts. 

2013-06-03 06:44:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

If I was #IFCman's girlfriend

2013-06-02 05:59:19 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Only in Macau. Getting married, having a photo session, saving on the photographer

2013-06-01 07:34:04 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

The Internship is coming June 7th. Background article. RT @WSJ: Google gave "Internship" filmmakers approval to replicate HQ, culture, data. Page lauded film. http://t.co/Le9XXXDXZC

2013-05-31 05:47:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Bar with a view

2013-05-30 05:34:08 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Our King and Queen have arrived in Hong Kong to mindful monitor our Consulate in Wanchai, from the wall

2013-05-29 18:17:12 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Comments in Excel and in Gmail filters Oh, how I've always hated to insert comments in Excel the 'normal' way to the point that I didn't do it at all, but how I love this way:

http://lifehacker.com/add-comments-to-a-formula-in-excel-for-your-future-refe-510113024

And how that reminds me of inserting comments in Gmail filters. By typing -"my comment stuff" (starts with minus) in the 'from'-box and the whole expression in the 'has these words'-box.
I wrote a post about filter comments last year: https://plus.google.com/101387092275812938679/posts/aXy2kNUhZAf

#tomtips

2013-05-28 16:22:45 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

The G+ Channel Experiment
Folkies, here's my experiment. For one month, until Google+'s 2nd birthday on June 28, I will be only posting to communities. In addition to my usual ones, they'll be:
zztomtips Where I post my tips on mainly Gmail and Google+ plus.google.com/communities/109092333407408659604
zztomthoughts My usual posts on what comes on my mind plus.google.com/communities/111884152961838068928
zztomdutch The posts in Dutch that only some people are able to read plus.google.com/communities/111799268600312778823
zztomhk General posts about my life in Hong Kong plus.google.com/communities/101510734231858875795
zztomnames My observations about people's names
plus.google.com/communities/114931994890549487358
zztomifcman My friend the IFCman 
plus.google.com/communities/106708461547321423932more »

2013-05-28 10:09:47 (18 comments, 2 reshares, 13 +1s)

The G+ Channel Experiment
Folkies, here's my experiment. For one month, until Google+'s 2nd birthday on June 28, I will be only posting to communities. In addition to my usual ones, they'll be:
zztomtips Where I post my tips on mainly Gmail and Google+ plus.google.com/communities/109092333407408659604
zztomthoughts My usual posts on what comes on my mind plus.google.com/communities/111884152961838068928
zztomdutch The posts in Dutch that only some people are able to read plus.google.com/communities/111799268600312778823
zztomhk General posts about my life in Hong Kong plus.google.com/communities/101510734231858875795
zztomnames My observations about people's names
plus.google.com/communities/114931994890549487358
zztomifcman My friend the IFCman 
plus.google.com/communities/106708461547321423932more »

2013-05-28 02:41:47 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

I just saw this guy in a Rolls Royce with chauffeur. He was reading a paper copy of South China Morning Post holding his eye glasses really close to magnify the letters. I'm so happy I myself walk to work, holding my Galaxy Note. And with a paid subscription to the digital South China Morning Post.

2013-05-27 10:27:30 (0 comments, 7 reshares, 11 +1s)

Today was the official commemoration australia.nlembassy.org/news/2013/05/first-contact-memorial.html of 1606: the first record of a European ship Duyfken plus.google.com/+tomvoute/posts/SZ4vo1BtWs5 arriving in Australia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janszoon_voyage_of_1606 .

I always wondered where that location was. Mapoon goo.gl/maps/CuQ00 . Very very far from the rest of Australia. The inhabitants received a little boat last year from the Duyfken Foundation last year: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151020114724267.448103.68254484266&type=3

Dutch article on the ceremony: nos.nl/artikel/511232-australie-eert-eerste-europeaan.html

2013-05-27 09:35:00 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

You could call it smart, you could call it over-engineering.
So I hover over the word 'tomorrow' and I can add the mail to the calendar.
 

2013-05-27 06:31:03 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Label Tip of the Day After such a long time trying to find the pattern, I found out why sometimes you have to hit Apply after selecting a label (annoying) and frequently you don't.
Reason: ticking the box on the left makes multiselecting possible and needs clicking Apply. However, clicking on the text makes a quick (de)select and collapse the dropdown.

#tomtips  

2013-05-27 05:08:18 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

An early #IFCman
And more importantly, I spoke to +Zoe Ming Wai for the first time in my life! She was on her was on her way to her boyfriend's home

2013-05-26 14:52:54 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

LINKIN PARK CHOOSE HONG KONG FOR NINTH INTERNATIONAL FAN SUMMIT - http://loudwire.com/linkin-park-hong-kong-ninth-international-fan-summit/

2013-05-26 15:38:51 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Did you know that if you uninstall Hangouts, you get Talk back? Only the name is a silent witness
#tomtips  

2013-05-26 05:37:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

11 seconds: walrus doing a backward salto

2013-05-26 04:50:09 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

Daughter(2) making friends

2013-05-26 02:37:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

Watch out! Behind you

2013-05-26 13:12:04 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

A singer and a saxophonist in a night club. Sooo cool

2013-05-25 07:11:14 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I just started +Steven Levy's 'In the Plex' about Google. 9500 pages. On my enormous Galaxy Note. That's a lot.

2013-05-25 06:32:07 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Look mama, no head.
Large backpack however.

2013-05-24 15:57:24 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

#IFCman is enjoying the weather

2013-05-23 20:20:35 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 19 +1s)

Hey! Here's a gay immigrant being awesome. This is what makes me proud to be British. Well, human anyway. Fuck you, beheadists, fascists and racists. You're all cunts.

2013-05-23 15:48:15 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

See? My proof that the second post with the same picture triggers uploading the first.
The next one had the trouble.

2013-05-23 15:42:14 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

This guy eats all this at 11:30pm. I only had a small Strawberry Shake and a White Burger. It was better than Black. Now I never go back.

For desert I'll have one more small Strawberry Shake

2013-05-23 10:15:07 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Are you also annoyed with nowadays the chats in the sent mail? Wanne see only what you sent? See picture: a new SENT button.

How to do this?
From my previous Complete Gmail Life  post https://plus.google.com/+TomVoute/posts/aY56TP6Vt5k , start with:
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Step 1: In https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/labs add Right side chat (don't forget to hit save at the bottom of the page). Now that widescreens are becoming the standard you might as well put you chat window on the right and in the settings of that window set it to large, since it's the only inhabitant in the right column. (...)
Step 2: Add Quick links in https://mail.google.com/mail/?shva=1#settings/labs
Gmail is built on urls. Any command is a url and Quick links can capture all those internal links by just hitting Add quick link. Like what?
Like:
* Settings -> filtersh... more »

2013-05-23 07:56:56 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

I think I'll officially call this a #fail. 
I notice there are quite some problems with mobile uploading recently but to offer to enhance the grey failure icon picture is a bit too much, I'd say.

2013-05-23 08:02:36 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Good morning! #fokkeensukke  Update: Picture dropbox.com/s/s9o9zeariqogjzo/shot_130523_160007.jpg Fokke&Sukke don't pay any taxes
Fokke: Of course we have a white one  
Sukke: but that one is black too

2013-05-22 07:43:02 (21 comments, 7 reshares, 24 +1s)

I got the black one. Out of curiosity.
And you know what they say. Once you got the black...

2013-05-22 07:25:13 (14 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

G+ GIFt I didn't even ask for it. I found this one in my G+ album, only because I shot five the same pictures. For everyone who likes GIFs and children: from top to bottom nephews/nieces(2, 12, 9, 10, 8) and daughter(6). 
Anyone seen this before? It's almost an Easter egg. The proof: The bottom right one is the one moving https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2o7of2anclkc9x/shot_130522_152318.jpg 

#xq  

2013-05-21 06:49:52 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

I really like Pocket: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ideashower.readitlater.pro (free) to ehm... read it later at those long flights but also to send links from mail if you don’t want to leave your Gmail app (long press , share, Add to Pocket attn +Paul Berghege )

Here are the 3 articles I recommend of the 10 that I read.
Be aware, the youngest is from August last year, but goog is good.

All the world is staged about worldwide soccer bribery

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/story/_/id/7927946/soccer-wilson-raj-perumal-world-most-prolific-criminal-match-fixer-espn-magazine

The Amazon Effect | The Nation about their business practices, how Amazon grew and grew and how the world reacted

http://www.thenation.com/article/168125/amazon-effect

Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup on them<... more »

2013-05-21 05:31:09 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 42 +1s)

Rainstorm

2013-05-21 01:50:00 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

My wife and Larry left the conversation

2013-05-20 06:03:26 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

It's official. Guys can ride the wheelchair but they cannot change the diapers

2013-05-19 20:11:57 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Five guys named Jan Reinier Voûte

#famcastres https://plus.google.com/101387092275812938679/posts/McTvcLmMZvX