11 June, 2025

Copy all .docx files in subfolders to a certain directory

Case: 

My students hand in dissertations as .pdf files and my notes to exam are written in the Microslows Word. Now I want to have all files in one place in order to print them out.


Solution:

Do thus:

# cp -r */*.docx NAME-OF-DIR/

if that be your will.


03 June, 2025

Dropped out of social media

I've dropped out of several SoMe channels. Some years ago I dropped Facebook. Then Twitter after Mr. Elon's behavior. Recently I've dropped LinkedIn. 

By now my only SoMe channel is YouTube. However the adds on YouTube are more and more annoying. On my television the YouTube app is almost useless. You have to watch 30 seconds of bullshit before you see something. Then the video will run. After a minute or less the next bullshit add comes up. I fear that this will just become worse and worse. However, on the odd PC DuckDuckGo has an effective add blocker and video viewer. But I miss this opportunity for YouTube on the tele. 

To me the SoMe channels became more and more irrelevant. They may be the playground for a plethora of ads, updates from spindoctors, unwanted notifications and selfpromoting influencers. 

"You can hit me all you want to 

But I don't need you any more ..."

Lou Reed from Caroline Say's.


Excell: Show the name of the day and the date

Formatting days and dates is not as complicated as I thought. 

Rightclick on the cell, choose "Format Cell". This will open the dialog where you can define what you want to see. 

The cell could  be formatted like this:

dddd dd.mm 

  • dddd = will give you the entire name of the day, e.g. monday.
  • dd = will give you the day of the month.
  • mm = will give you the month
If you add yy to the formula you'll get the year too.

Now you can so something along these lines: