We are just over a week into 2008 and there have already been people falling off of the New Year’s Resolution bandwagon. One of the biggest problems that I see is that people don’t plan to achieve a goal. Resolutions are wishes to achieve a goal. Barring fairy dust and magic, that is just not [...]
“When I’m done with school I’ll have more fun.” “When I’ve finally paid off my debt I’ll go on that cool trip.” “After this project ships, I’ll spend more time on my hobbies.” “I won’t be happy until I get this one final thing done.” It’s that time of year when everyone is making resolutions. [...]
Supposedly, Randy Pausch was on Oprah last week. Dr Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University who is dying from pancreatic cancer. He presented his last lecture at CMU earlier this year. I am not going to link to the Oprah version of the lecture because it is a big piece of crap. Trying [...]
In Silicon Valley, there are a lot of stories of meetings happening in hot tubs and deals being done at Bucks. I usually get together with a bunch of friends for a hot tub over at Scott‘s place each week. And we’re usually on the patio at Mel’s Saturday and Sunday morning. A couple of [...]
D1R-jKKp3NA It’s been about a month since I purchased my MacBook Pro. I can say without a doubt that, Windows is dead to me. The developer in me loves the fact that it is built on top of UNIX. All of those UNIX programs that I missed are available. Aquamacs is the best Emacs I’ve [...]
Cpc-t-Uwv1I I have recently been surrounding myself with people that expect more from me. As a result, I’ve been expecting more from myself. When your friends are fit, starting their own businesses, living in the coolest neighbourhoods, surrounded by gorgeous women, intense workers, and extremely positive it is difficult to not have those qualities rub [...]
I woke up Wednesday, whenever I woke up. I packed my bags and jumped on the bike. I am trying to travel super-minimal. I have one tail bag full of clothes and one backpack full of credentials, toiletries, and electronics. I only packed one pair of jeans, two t-shirts, a fleece sweater, and three pairs [...]
By way of Seth Godin’s Blog. According to the CBC, some grade 9 student in Nova Scotia got picked on by his classmates for wearing a pink polo shirt. I wear pink all of the time. And screw this punk kid if he thinks he can bite my style. Even though I live in one [...]
Today, I am in beautiful Vancouver, BC. SOCOM: Tactical Strike for the PSP is wrapping up, so I am heading out on vacation. I don’t have a firm release date, but Tactical Strike should be in stores in time for Christmas. So, go out and pick it up, because you love me and stuff. I [...]
I just cleaned up the RSS feed for this blog. To be notified when this blog is updated you can click on the FeedBurner icon in the Sidebar. Don’t know what RSS is? Here is quick and cool tutorial by Common Craft. cjQkDe9cv5A I’ve also added a Facebook Badge. Note that I use Facebook as [...]