Here’s to the crazy one, Steve Jobs.
Even if you aren’t a startup, this is a nice, comprehensive list of tools.
THIS DISCLAIMER IS NOT INTENDED TO BE IRONIC.
Still not sure I’d want to work for him.
The flash-based “game” illustrates how very difficult it is to survive on $9 an hour income. Working through the scenarios here is a bit like watching the Morgan Spurlock “30 Days” episode where he lives for a month on minimum wage.
One of the advantages of having your entire site in text files on your computer, is being able to munge those files with any number of nifty Unix-style commands. For example, I can easily count all the postings on my site with ls -l | wc -l and see that this is the 1,812th posting here.
Or, I can count all the words in all the postings with wc * | sort and see that the smallest posting has 20 words, while the largest has 4,963 words. In total I’ve published 561,922 words in the last decade or so. Half a million.
And I can see that 2,346 files total are pushed to my server to make this site work by running find . -type f | wc -l.
I love being a nerd.
Some interesting ideas about why we can’t get big stuff done anymore from one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson.
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
In my ongoing effort to find an exercise routine that I (a) like and (b) am willing to incorportate into my daily life, I am now going swimming.
Last winter I bought a magnetic trainer and rode my bicycle on it some, but not regularly and not enough to make a difference in my weight. Over the summer it was too hot to even think about exercise, much less do any.
As a univeristy employee I get access to the rec center and to the natatorium. Yesterday I signed up for three months of pool access and today at 5 pm is the first public swim session available to me. I haven’t been swimming in seven years and I’ve never used swimming as a form of exercise.
Hopefully twice-a-week swim sessions will take hold and grow into a habit. And, if nothing else, I’ve got a great Peter Gabriel song running in my head now as a result of the title for this posting.