GitHub as Blogging Platform Testing GitHub as Blogging Platform
Earth | Time Lapse View from Space | Fly Over | Nasa, ISS
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=430ykbW1zqA?wmode=transparent]
Mac Advanced Account Options
The cool part about this article is being able to right click on the account and get "Advanced Options". WHEN I upgrade to SSD, I will certainly move my home dir off to "conventional storage".
Logitech confesses to 'gigantic' mistake with Google TV | Digital Media - CNET News
UPDATE: This article corrects some "misquotes" or mischaracterizations about what Logitech said: http://gnarld.com/the-truth-about-logitech-ditching-google-tv/
Well, there you have it, my gamble on the Logitech Revue did NOT pay off. And I should probably stop holding my breath for the Honeycomb update because reports indicate it is buggy still.
As it is, I find the device useful for getting online content to the TV and it has a better interface for pulling video off my LAN than Tivo, but I would recommend an AppleTV or a Roku before any GoogleTV appliance at this point. Oh, Google, some things CAN'T live in perpetual beta where user experience is paramount!
$19/mo Voice and Data, with No Contract? Yes, please!
The American Scholar: Solitude and Leadership - William Deresiewicz
I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know.
This is a great essay. Above is a quote from "Heart of Darkness" that resonated with me. I can relate to that a lot and is one of the reasons I work hard.
There are a number of points that really hit home.. and sometimes I wonder if I embody too many of these traits: "That’s really the great mystery about bureaucracies. Why is it so often that the best people are stuck in the middle and the people who are running things—the leaders—are the mediocrities? Because excellence isn’t usually what gets you up the greasy pole. What gets you up is a talent for maneuvering. Kissing up to the people above you, kicking down to the people below you. Pleasing your teachers, pleasing your superiors, picking a powerful mentor and riding his coattails until it’s time to stab him in the back. Jumping through hoops. Getting along by going along. Being whatever other people want you to be, so that it finally comes to seem that, like the manager of the Central Station, you have nothing inside you at all. Not taking stupid risks like trying to change how things are done or question why they’re done. Just keeping the routine going."
He also touches upon multitasking, media, etc. and the need for one to be alone, not influenced by outside sources, and think..