Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

It is easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of tasks and to-do’s in the coming month. I’ve been experimenting with limiting my commitments to 30 hours in the coming 30 days. Not 30 projects, not 30 quick to-do’s but 30 one-hour tasks. Here’s how to do it: Step 1: Realize there’s always time […]

IMed with a colleague yesterday who is at a business retreat. They had to detail their business ideas to the facilitator and one idea that my buddy was not hugely hot on caused the facilitator to say ‘OH MY GOD THAT IS GREAT YOU HAVE TO DO THAT!’ I am always suspicious of large groups […]

In the middle of reading Jonathan Black’s Yes You Can: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz and my favorite nugget so far: Dejected, he threw the manuscript into the garbage and ordered his wife to leave it there. She did – and carried the wastebasket to yet another publisher, who had it […]

I want one of these bad boys. That or a SEKS-SEE Fujitsu Lifebook. Of a VAIO Stats: The Eee PC is running a version of Intel’s 910 mobile chipset, it uses a 900MHz Intel Dothan based Pentium M CPU, it has 512MB of DDR2 memory, full 802.11g wireless capability, and a flash-based hard drive. There […]

A discussion on Metafilter about an article in Wired about the quality assurance and user testing for the upcoming Halo sequel, Halo 3 leads to some great insights from a QA tester from the Marathon: Durandal game team: Shooting shotguns and rocket launchers is fun, and you can’t have any fun if you’re running away […]

Or maybe just so far. Granted it is a German product so it wouldn’t carry nearly the cultural/historical baggage it would if rolled out in the USA: An MP3 player in the i.Beat series called i.Beat blaxx nice. (via Metafilter and Engadget and Fake Steve Jobs)

This plugin helps you add more buttons and options to the rich-text/WYSIWYG editor without having to edit the underlying JavaScript code (which is from the TinyMCE plugin, if you were wondering: This plugin was designed to act as a framework for managing TinyMCE plugins and buttons. This should not be confused with WordPress plugins. TinyMCE […]

Now that Google allows their maps to be embedded as easily as a Google Video there is of course a WordPress plugin to help you do just that. While editing your post, you can quickly pop-open Google Maps from the editor and generate your map through the Maps interface, or quickly grab the link to […]

Like Sandbox, Particles is another WordPress theme that is designed to be built upon with extra features and design elements. Particles is maximized for dial-up users: 4 Seconds or Better – The Particles theme has loading time of 4 seconds or less on a minimum connection speed of 56K. These meta-themes are great for getting […]

A PDF diagram showing how the widgets in WordPress function. (via)