2008 was the second year that we tracked some SMART goals here at F_D for its humble narrator. Our accomplishments during 2007 were excellent overall, so we decided to repeat the experiment. We mixed it up a bit for 2008, tweaking the individual goals, adding some new ones, removing other irrelevant ones… And 2008 mixed […]
Things 1.0rc now available at TUAW :: featuring a 20% off coupon code (tagged: Things GTD Mac OSX software todo ) Eventually Consistent – Revisited at All Things Distributed (tagged: essay scalability dev work todo ) Baader-Meinhof phenomenon (tagged: via:fogus language brain learning ) Version Control with Subversion (tagged: reference subversion ) Fairpoint Pledges To […]
I spent a little time this past weekend trying to wrap up my “for Ortho 0.5″ to-do list. Fixed a few obscure bugs, polished up a few items that had bugged me, deferred a few others to the Ortho 1.0 to-do list. And I was basically ready to close the book on Ortho 0.5 if […]
Make A GIF I've been obsessing about cheesy animated GIFs lately. I don't know why. (tagged: design graphics gif generator tools ) Whole Grain Soups and Stews At Mighty Foods. (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe ) List of The Wire characters at Wikipedia: wanted: visualization of all characters, color-coded and indexed by the number of episodes […]
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A quick “Happy Merry Xmas” shout out to all my readers. A few Xmas traditions from our household that go into our annual celebrations: pizza dinner on Xmas Eve the misadventures of Clark W. Griswold, Jr. Bush Tree! scratch lottery tickets What are yours?
Potato Latkes Recipe looks really fraggin' good (tagged: via:aspiringlibrarian food recipe todo ) Percent of state population that identifies with "no religion" by State at Swivel Featured Graphs: once again: go VT! (tagged: Vermont religion data visualization ) Inkscape via LifeHacker (among others) :: open source SVG editor (and Illustrator alternative). "Draw Freely." (tagged: Mac […]
Via A.: Protest flares up on Facebook over breast-feeding photos: A minirevolt is underway at Facebook after photos of mothers nursing their babies were removed from their personal pages. ¶ More than 58,000 people have joined a Facebook group called “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!” to complain about the censorship. The article’s comment thread is a […]
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Winter comes, time passes. You miss some opportunities, you stumble on to some others. (Original on Flickr.)