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The Most Important Book I’ve Read in a Long Time – “So Good They Can’t Ignore You” 3 Aug 2013 | 02:40 am
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport This might be the most important book I’ve ever read, as far as career is concerned. The basic premise – that “follow your passion” is bad advice, and tha...
Six Years Ago, The iPhone Changed Everything 30 Jun 2013 | 09:34 am
Six years ago today was the launch of the iPhone. Up until the night before, I was convinced I wasn’t going to get one. It only had “2G” EDGE data speeds, and I had just switched from Verizon’s 1.5-is...
Xbox One Announcement: I Didn’t Expect To Be Interested 22 May 2013 | 12:17 am
Microsoft unveiled the next generation Xbox today: Xbox One. Wired has a great “first look” – I highly recommend you read it. The guts: a custom AMD SoC that combines CPU and GPU (assume it’s x86, lik...
Google Reader Alternatives for Reeder Users Like Me 20 Mar 2013 | 01:52 am
tl;dr – I don’t know what I’m going to use to replace Google Reader yet. I’m going to wait and see what works best as a replacement sync service in Silvio Rizzi’s Reeder apps. Now that we’re a few day...
Google Reader Alternatives for Reeder Users Like Me 20 Mar 2013 | 01:52 am
tl;dr – I don’t know what I’m going to use to replace Google Reader yet. I’m going to wait and see what works best as a replacement sync service in Silvio Rizzi’s Reeder apps. Now that we’re a few day...
Playstation 4 Is Here. Why Am I Not More Excited? 21 Feb 2013 | 08:11 am
I watched the liveblogs of the Sony Playstation 4 event. Interesting that the hardware specs are essentially a moderately beefy PC (8 core AMD processor, Radeon GPU, 8GB RAM). The games they demoed lo...
Playstation 4 Is Here. Why Am I Not More Excited? 21 Feb 2013 | 08:11 am
I watched the liveblogs of the Sony Playstation 4 event. Interesting that the hardware specs are essentially a moderately beefy PC (8 core AMD processor, Radeon GPU, 8GB RAM). The games they demoed lo...
iPhone Gets Hot, Battery Drains Rapidly – How I Fixed It 13 Nov 2012 | 05:10 am
The short version: how I diagnosed and fixed an issue that was causing multiple iPhones and an iPad to get hot and drain their batteries. This is the nitty gritty on how I fixed the problem. Read on b...
iPhone Gets Hot, Battery Drains Rapidly – How I Fixed It 13 Nov 2012 | 05:10 am
The short version: how I diagnosed and fixed an issue that was causing multiple iPhones and an iPad to get hot and drain their batteries. This is the nitty gritty on how I fixed the problem. Read on b...
Worlds Collide: The My Little Pony iOS Game 10 Nov 2012 | 12:38 am
Sometimes there’s a perfect storm, when different avenues of my weird personality collide. The My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic game by Gameloft (for iPhone and iPad) is out. The game itself is fre...
