Opportunity
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and…
Visual Understanding
I've been promising myself for several years to get back to doing some painting. Recently I got myself some acrylic colours and some brushes and have been taking a stab…
Getting Things Done – Filling the Buckets
This post is a follow-up to the previous one, part of a planned series on my experiences with implementing David Allen's Getting Things Done or GTD system. If you missed…
Getting Things Done – Mental Whack-a-Mole
A couple of months ago, I reached a breaking point -- all the things I had to do no longer fit in my mind or on the various to-do lists…
Reflections on Vancouver, 1907
I shared a video link (embedded below) on Twitter recently that I found to be a remarkable historical record of people interacting with a streetscape in 1907. The footage was…
Leave the Wolf
The xkcd comic above caught my attention when it was originally published a while back, and it came back to mind as I mulled over the usual year-end thoughts about…
The Magazine
Once in a while, something comes along that in retrospect seems so obvious as to be almost inevitable. Marco Arment's new venture The Magazine is one of those things. The…
Whither Feedburner?
Is Feedburner going away? It depends on who you ask, but there sure seem to be changes afoot at the highly popular free RSS service. What is clear is that…