Category: Personal
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SXSW
I am in Austin Texas at my fourth SXSW. I’m here until Tuesday. So far the weather is nice and the people are as great as ever. Please keep an eye out for me and say hi. Here’s a picture of me to help you distinguish me from all the other skinny white guys with…
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Doing Things vs. Getting Things Done
A quick thought for this fine Friday: Something about the term “Getting Things Done” always bugged me. Now I know what it is. It’s the passive voice. Instead of the indirect phrasing using the verb “to get”, maybe we really should simply say “Doing Things“. GTD isn’t about getting other people to do things —…
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Floppies
I disowned about 100 pounds of Windows/PC computer parts this weekend. I say “disowned†because I’ve not completely gotten rid of it all. I am vaguely aware that there are environmentally-right and -wrong ways of disposing of electronic equipment, but since I have (obviously) been hoarding/collecting them for so many years (hoarding the spare parts,…
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The 1/2-inch Headphone Cord (iPhone Ready!)
With winter’s cold coming, I wanted to figure out a way to use an extra pair of over-the-ear headphones with my iPhone without losing the ability to use the iPhone’s wonderful on-cord control doohickey (which allows you to pause, play, or skip tracks, as well as being a hands-free microphone and call controller). So I…
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Kindle Review in the Form of a Photo Collage
‘m not going to say much about Kindle — as an iPhone owner, I find both the device and the service colossally dumb. But the breathless excitement over the supposed “death of the book” is even more preposterous, especially to book lovers like my wife and me. For us, books, periodicals, and printed matter of…
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Design Rules to Live By
On the IxDA list this week, Lisa deBettencourt asks: What are your fundamental tenets of design; those little bulleted phrases on the Design Vision slide of your Powerpoint, the signatures on your email footer, the philosophies you work by as you design? A simple but interesting question. You can see all the answers here, but…
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Georges Seurat Dot Com
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It’s hard to understate the pride I felt on behalf of my colleagues at Behavior when I read these words in Friday’s New York Times: “The Museum of Modern Art’s elegantly plain exhibition of Georges Seurat’s drawings begins with an unexpectedly extraordinary moment of computerized art viewing. Seurat’s four surviving notebooks have been converted to…
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The Trenches of the Culture War
Whenever I travel in Bible Belt country or in so-called “red states”, I am often struck by the absolute depravity and crass exploitation that I see all around me — in places where, as conventional wisdom would have it, the people are supposed to be the most morally upstanding Americans, especially when compared to people…