July 2008
120 posts
Now Do This, and The Single- Tasking Philosophy |... →
Uncanny. Two years ago, I had this very idea. Although, instead of calling it “Now Do This,” I was calling it “Do This Now.” I also played with the names Triage and … wait for it … Monotask. In…
Jul 25th
“The way to acquire a good taste in anything, from pictures to architecture, from...”
– Sir Richard Livingstone, via Peter Buffington
Jul 22nd
PullMonkey Projects: Open Flash Chart Plugin for... →
A good open source graphing plugin for Rails.
Jul 21st
Quick Public Service Announcement … I’ve “unfollowed” my Twitter feed from charliepark.org. The way I figure it, anyone who knows about my blog either already follows me on Twitter or gets my Twitter updates as a status feed in Facebook. So to reduce the noise, the blog now only re-posts my del.icio.us bookmarks. And I’ll still post, on occasion, with more blog-worthy...
Jul 20th
Act 3 of Dr. Horrible? Meh. Can’t really comment without spoilers. So I’ll have to leave it as ‘meh.’ 1 and 2 were phenomenal. 3? Notsomuch.
Jul 20th
The NEW ShaunGroves.com - Shlog →
What you are worth is not measurable in hype, praise, or temporal glory. Remember: When journalists praise you, it’s not because they love you. It’s because they love themselves, and they have a…
Jul 20th
Letters from Kamp Krusty: The Long, Dark Knight of... →
A review of The Dark Knight from Brant Hansen. Invokes Barzun, etc. “This is a well-made, pointless movie, that merely points to our exhaustion as a culture.”
Jul 20th
Typographic brilliance: http://justwatchthesky.com/.
Jul 20th
ROCK!STAR! I think I just figured out an issue that had shut down new code development on PB for the last few weeks. Yay for side projects!
Jul 20th
is insomnial (?) after too much wine.
Jul 20th
Jul 20th
is coffeeing up and heading to the law library to get stuff done. Seriously … it’s a block from Murky. Why don’t people know about this?
Jul 19th
That’s weird. Someone who I’m *not* following (either in my ‘following’ list or their ‘followers’ list) is showing up in my feed. Wha?
Jul 19th
is scanning some photos for a present.
Jul 19th
is figuring out lunch.
Jul 19th
is totally in love with Dr. Horrible. Thank you @mogrifette for recommending it!
Jul 19th
“These are not the hammer.”
Jul 19th
is listening to Maritime, and thinking “they sound like the Promise Ring.” Turns out the lead singer’s ex-Promise Ring. So there you go.
Jul 17th
is working at the GMU law library. So much less crowded than Arlington Central; So much cheaper than Murky.
Jul 17th
“Brand-building is not about spam and not about exchanging links. (It’s about)...”
– Merlin, from a wide-ranging interview in advance of his Connect keynote next week. (via merlin)
Jul 17th
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In case you don’t follow @pearbudget on Twitter, we’ve got some meetups scheduled. Would love to connect. http://is.gd/VQ8
Jul 17th
Upcoming PearBudget Meetups →
Every once in a while, Sarah and I like to meet up with … well … you. We find a cool indie coffeehouse, we buy you coffee, we talk about budgeting (but we make it fun! the coffee helps!), and we…
Jul 17th
is awake, thanks to Lucy’s bad dream about an otter next to her bed. A *growling* otter. Later changed to a seal. A *growling* seal.
Jul 17th
is beat.
Jul 17th
Upcoming PearBudget Meetups →
Every once in a while, Sarah and I like to meet up with … well … you. We find a cool indie coffeehouse, we buy you coffee, we talk about budgeting (but we make it fun! the coffee helps!), and we…
Jul 17th
is off to Hard Times to see a friend before he moves to Texas.
Jul 16th
The iPhone line at the Clarendon Apple store is NUTS. Good thing I’m not getting one.
Jul 16th
I think I just upgraded WordPress. Yay.
Jul 16th
is trying a new “dealing with e-mail” technique. No Twitter until # of e-mails is 5 less that the last time Twitter was checked. I’m at 10.
Jul 16th
is probably not going to be on Twitter again for a little bit. See you kids later.
Jul 16th
just read an AWESOME post from Scott Berkun at Harvard Business (Digital) … “Why innovation is overrated”: http://is.gd/Uqp
Jul 16th
is at Best Buy grumble grumble.
Jul 15th
is wondering … will a too-powerful (or not-powerful-enough) voltage / wattage combo from a power supply kill a laptop? Anybody? Please?
Jul 15th
is off to Best Buy grumble grumble.
Jul 15th
Left the power supply to my laptop at home. Anybody know if I’ll fry the computer if I appropriate a different laptop’s power supply?
Jul 15th
is thinking someone should offer a PDF library of all user manuals, ever. You then create your own micro-library and access it as necessary.
Jul 15th
is kind of frustrated at how his inbox exploded.
Jul 14th
is listening to Wir Sind Helden, courtesy eWeb.
Jul 14th
would love a Firefox extension that logs URLs to read later, without having to go through the process of actually opening the URLs up first.
Jul 14th
is talking through project management strategy with Sarah, and wondering when we’ll be able to get this iPhone interface working.
Jul 14th
is wondering if he should begin prefacing tweets with “is” and refer to himself in the third person. Facebook peeps, weigh in.
Jul 14th
Oops. refer*ring*
Jul 14th
Wow, Twitter was busy last night. Finally got caught up.
Jul 14th
Driving back from Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens and Chipotle with @mogrify, @mogrifette, and los mogrifiddles. Big fun, as always.
Jul 13th
Whatever the equivalent for “Inbox Zero” is for entering receipts into PearBudget … that’s where I am.
Jul 13th
Back from fishing. Total number of fish we need to clean? 0. Now making waffles, and seeing if I can slip some cocoa powder into the mix.
Jul 13th
Taking a walk around alpacaville with Mom and Dad.
Jul 13th
BBQ chicken, corn on the cob, farmers’ market peaches, etc. eaten. Doing the dishes and introducing my parents to Pandora.
Jul 12th
Mama and Papa are here! Yay!
Jul 12th
So tomorrow morning we’re going fishing. On the box of worms we picked up for bait: “Contents not for human consumption.” Glad they told me.
Jul 12th