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Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by fern

fern — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:47:21 +0000

your script is wrong. it is off by one day because it is counting the day you are born as one day, but you aren’t one day old until the day after, so one day needs to be added to the results of this current script.

Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by Ben

Ben — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:48:12 +0000

My 10,000th day to live will be on 11-11-11!
How cool is that?

Comment on Siri not recognising relationships by tony

tony — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:53:21 +0000

Hi Dan

I can confirm this works. I had exactly the same problem with a load of contacts I exported from Exchange in order to test iCloud syncing. Although I could ‘build’ relationships with these contacts, Siri could not then find the contacts with a prefix (Mr, Mrs, Miss etc) if I said, for example, ‘find my brother’

Comment on Siri not recognising relationships by dan

dan — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:18:58 +0000

What you say is true, however if your girlfriends name is stored with a title of “Miss” then it will not work and you have to go and amend it manually.

Comment on Siri not recognising relationships by George Heron

George Heron — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:16:20 +0000

You can say to siri who in your contacts is your girlfriend and Siri will amend your contacts appropriately.

i.e. say X is my girlfriend.

Siri will say, do you want me to remember X as your girlfriend?

Say yes and chocks away!

Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by dan

dan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:47:41 +0000

It gets the date now and your date of birth, converts both into julian date format (i.e. the number of days since 1st January 4713 BC) and then subtracts the date of birth from the date now. This then returns the number of days old that you are. Therefore:

Born = 1st January 2011, Date = 1st January 2011, Days Old = 0
Born = 1st January 2011, Date = 2nd January 2011, Days Old = 1

It then subtracts the number of days old that you are from 10000 and adds the result to the current julian date.

It then converts the result of that into the gregorian date and displays it.

Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by St. Fallen

St. Fallen — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:00:43 +0000

one simple question. does it count my date of birth as one of the 10,000 days?
or does it simply add to it therefore telling me when 10,001 days will be?
also, are you a fan of TOOL

Comment on Installing irssi using macports by anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:23:32 +0000

Very helpful, thank you!

Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by dan

dan — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 22:31:44 +0000

I can not replicate. Please let me know the full date you are typing into the box. E.g. 26/02/2011 would be the 26th February 2011 and that works (as I just tested it).

Comment on When is your 10000 day birthday? by Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:25:41 +0000

get “Date of Birth should be in the format dd/mm/yyyy” message for dates 02/13 through 02/28 regardless of the year I tried. and yes I verified the format. Tried this in chrome and in IE with same results in both browsers. It worked for 02/01 through 02/12, and 03/01.