links, random thoughts, various opinions
Almost home after three weeks on the road. Flying into London and roaming around curved endless streets and lanes feels less like travel because this is my second home … I think this in fact may be trip number 30. Anyways Hamburger Union always tastes like home. Solidarity forever.
I’m getting used to my new Intel MacBook Pro. It’s performed well on this long business trip except the heat it generates continues to surprise (and worry) me. I’ve also noticed that the magnetically attached power cord is a very useful feature in preventing me from pulling my laptop off the desk or […]
I feel like I should blog…but never seem to. I guess sometimes it’s because there’s not enough time (or I tell myself that) to write something that I think is worth writing down…a bad excuse - as if feeling I have to do any of this is a good idea.
I’m on the road again…New […]
Google’s Office add-on
“Google, as it has itself said repeatedly, is not interested in fighting old wars. Microsoft won the war for spreadsheet applications. Google’s fighting a new war, a war that’s barely begun. It’s the war for web services. And it knows that, for the foreseeable future, these services will not displace desktop applications but […]
Tony’s got a great post about one of the things that makes Vancouver great.
“At a certain stop the [bus] driver shut the engine down proclaiming “I’m not driving anymore, you guys are too loud”! Everyone just kind of stared at him. He then smirked and said, “Just kidding, all you kids line up to sit […]
Hotels almost always have an unusual selection of TV channels (and questionable movies of all types). As a professional TV surfer it’s hard for me to adapt on the road (and work properly without the TV going in the background) since I never know what’s on. The default of course becomes various news […]
Andrew Sullivan is a regular read of mine. He has some excellent posts lately on a range of issues from Iran to the Simpsons that are worth a look. Today however, it’s his quote for the day I needed…
“Let each one examine his thoughts, and he will find them all occupied with the […]
I started watching Lost last year - mostly on the long flights I’d catch up on an episode here and there. Of course like millions of others I’m fully hooked…but a complaint I have is that there are just too many cliffhangers and unknowns. I’m willing to hang into and watch a show […]
I’ve been using Camino for several months now (since version 1.0). On my old Power Mac I found it speedy and better with a variety of websites that didn’t seem to like Safari; speed was the main factor though (and the mac’ish skinnable look). Like Derek I’ve decided to switch back to Safari […]
After stumbling across the graphing applet on the website Aharef last night, I checked out the site again today. There’s a link to a song from a band the author is in. I listened a couple of times to the full version…and happily went over to iTunes to drop .99 for the song. A good […]
I was chatting with Ernest last night and he pointed me to this blog - Aharef - and the very cool utility for mapping websites - HTML Graph Applet. Great visualization.
Don’t Stop - Start
“If you want to change something in your life, it’s common to try to stop the behaviors you don’t like. While this certainly seems logical, it seldom works. The reason is simple - it unintentionally creates a vacuum where the old behaviors used to be. And since nature hates a vacuum it […]