A Microsoft-less World?
Friday, 26 October 2007So, I’m preparing for my clean install of Leopard, which should arrive early next week. Microsoft Office on the Mac stinks. It is slow and eats up tons of memory. It is just incompatible enough with the Windows version to be annoying. It is the only major app that I have which is not yet [...]
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Driving Environmentally…
Wednesday, 24 October 2007I linked this article about hypermilers in my del.icio.us feed the other day, but I’ve been meaning to comment on it. I hadn’t heard of hypermiling before, but I think it is awesome. Bizarre, but awesome. Granted, the people described in the article are insane, but it’s good to have a passion, right? In any [...]
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Burrito Redux…
Wednesday, 24 October 2007Over three years ago, I bemoaned the lack of a burrito place in this town. Well, this fall a branch of Moe’s opened up downtown. The Burrito Blog doesn’t care much for Moe’s, calling it “the height of Moe-deocrity.” I don’t disagree, really, but it’s all we’ve got, okay? I would like to remind my [...]
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Exploding Task Queue…
Wednesday, 24 October 2007One of my favorite books on time management is Do It Tomorrow by Mark Forster, who also has a very nice blog here. (He hasn’t been posting much lately, but there is much of value in the archive.) In the book Forster makes a point which is both common sense and a deep result in [...]
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Shameful…
Monday, 22 October 2007There is a bill under consideration by the U.S. Senate which has already been passed by the House that would close a loophole that allowed Seung-Hui Cho to buy the weapons that he used to kill 32 innocent people here last spring. It is a bill which is supported by the National Rifle Association (among [...]
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The Dark Side of My Purge…
Friday, 19 October 2007I mentioned previously my ongoing efforts with regards to purging stuff, particularly from my home office. This is generally a satisfying experience, and it has real benefits including regaining space and increased energy. (I literally have more energy now than I did before I started casting off stuff. I can’t prove causation, but the correlation [...]
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