Monthly Archives: May 2007

Cleaner Desktop

For those of you with Macs, check out Five Steps to a Kinkless Desktop. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty anal about keeping my desktop clean. Ethan is the author of kGTD, a great set of scripts that … Continue reading

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Minor problem — fixed now!

Don’t know what happened, but yesterday all my internal site links broke. Either my hosting environment or I did something goofy. Anyway, after a few installs and data imports, I think I have everything back now. If anyone was watching, … Continue reading

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Google and Dell Resort to Spyware

Saw this post on Insignificant Thoughts. If it’s true, Google can forget about their “Do no evil” motto. This sure sounds like SpyWare to me. I’m glad I have a Mac…

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Getting up Early

I stubbled on 10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It, and I have to admit it is good stuff. Until my kids were born, I was never much of an early riser, but since then I find … Continue reading

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Founders at Work

“Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days” by Jessica Livingston of Y Combinator is a great read. The book is a collection of interviews with mostly recent technology startup founders. For a complete list of interviews, click here. Most … Continue reading

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Very Cool Offices

Saw this post on Guy Kawasaki’s blog. There are many pictures of the Threadless offices in Chicago. I don’t know how much software or technology they work with, but those have to be some of the coolest offices I’ve ever … Continue reading

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Really Bad Customer Service

Long ago in another life I was a Mac user (at least at home). I also became a loyal Quicken user. This was back in 1991 or 1992. Along the way, I bit the bullet and replaced my home Mac … Continue reading

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Fear of Failure

I came across and interesting article – Fear and Loathing in Software Development. The author starts with the idea that a good API will be very difficult to change because it becomes entrenched. After that, the author discusses a scenario … Continue reading

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