Noise cancelling headphones

Finally got some noise cancelling headphones, not the most expensive or the most effective but they really take the edge off the air compressor whine that I am near. They do not cancel voice well which actually has worked out so if people ask for me I can just hear them. 

For the record these are 7dayshop AERO 7 Active Noise Cancelling Headphones with Aeroplane Kit and Travel Case from amazon. Another benefit has been being able to use my training time watching pluralsight videos at work.

Not really tech, having a big mouse mat is actually nice, tracks well when using the surface calibration in the synapse software. 

Don't under estimate documentation, I've been updating lots of it, systems that have been around for ages at least worth documenting the basics and business rules. As I found a lot of time has been used to find who knows this thing and then how to use it.

Shorty this week

Hanselman how to use word very handy as I had not been shown any of that, one of those things I just expected to be able to do. 

The path finding algorithm Dijkstra which is the father of A* and then A* epsilon. A* builds on Dijkstra algorithm by being greedy.

A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that follows the problem solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage with the hope of finding a global optimum.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_algorithm
 
From .net rocks about opening files in notepad, if the first line starts with PK this is a zip file. Tried this out and appears true.