“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.” - Thomas Merton, American Trappist monk (1915–1968)
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I’ve been experimenting with the Merlin Mann-popularized tip of appending text to a file from Quicksilver. And it’s cool. But, I like a good chunk of whitespace to separate some things. But how to get the whitespace in there? Hitting return just saves the text and closes the window, and putting a \n just adds […]
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When I went to the GTD conference, I saw David Allen use his two-minute timer during the presentation. I thought it was a good idea, and based on a conversation I just had with Thomas, I finally looked one up. Allen’s was only for Windows, but I found free ones for Windows and OSX. Sorry […]
While Chas and I were snowboarding in West Virgina, we visited the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank. They have an enormous radio telescope — the largest moving structure on land, they claim. It’s built out of over 2,000 panels, and at the meeting of every 4 panels is a motor so that those […]
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This is a info post for people having problems. Generally Ruby is great, but due to some old development I was doing, my gems got screwed up. The best way to fix this for me meant reinstalling OS X Leopard. This might have come from different package managers running at the same time, like Fink […]
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Deliberately dialing 911 is a bit of an odd experience…
So, it’s December 15th — well, about 12:50 AM on the 16th — but I’m still up, sitting in bed, putting the finishing touches on a post for the Cloudspace blog. I decide that it’s looking really good, and I can get some sleep. Laptop closes, […]
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As part of the Zentact project I’ve been working on, we were asked to integrate with various webmail clients. This makes it easy to manage your contacts while sending email.
Doing this was a bit of a pain. Since all code is minified, and they all use Javascript events differently, there was a good bit of […]
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I’ve been quoted in a series of articles at CIO.com on code reviews. The two particular ones I’m in are
How to Lead a Code Review
Making Code Review Software Tools Help, Not Hinder
Neat!
The author of the articles is Esther Schindler, who has also written articles like “Four Non-Obvious Things Pink Floyd Can Teach Your Team“. I […]
I saw this video of Adam Savage talking at The Last Hope this past year. I recommend it. It’s awesome to see how dedicated he is, and what it takes to produce such great stuff.
Other than getting a preview of (then) new Mythbuster footage and getting to see a downloaded AVI of The Dark Knight […]
I saw my friend Kitzzy’s tweet about navy showers a while ago, and I’ve been trying them out. No, “navy shower” isn’t what you might think.
Basically, it’s a braindead-simple way to reduce water and electricity/gas usage, with no inconvenience to you. Plus, I always seem to take quicker showers, which means I can clear out […]
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