Ok I signed up with Twitter a while ago. Things that don’t warrant a full blog post will get posted on my twitter link: http://twitter.com/zemote
If you don’t know what twitter is check it out. It’s kinda like a community web based chat/social network. You can only post It’s kinda hard to describe but I this site is starting to become addicting.
Lifedev.net even has a blog post on how to use Twitter as a GTD productivity tool
Ok, this morning I finally got around to upgradeing WordPress, my blogging software, to 2.0.7. A few hours later they released 2.1, SIGH! Teach me to upgrade my software late. Looks like i’ll be spending the next hour upgrading yet again today.
[tags]wordpress, wordpress 2.1, blog software, blog, blogging, blog tools[/tags]
My new Nikon D40 DSLR. Some high quality photos will be coming your way shortly 🙂
A command line and a keyboard is much more efficient. Lately there has been a lot of working going into the command line and their seems to be a resurrection of it. I am a longtime linux/unix user so I have never really seen the death of the command line, but people that started using windows in the last 12 years have not really been introduced to the command line.
My favorite command line launcher program for windows is Launchy. It indexes your start menu and any other folder you want. pulls up a command line launcher, then you just type to name of the program to launch, plus it does automatic filename completetion for you. By typing f it will look for the first program that starts with f, typing fi will almost certainly always find firefox.
If you Windows Users need a more powerful command line, you can use Cygwin. Cygwin gives you a linux like command line under windows.
Even Microsoft has conceded that the gui isn’t all it’s cracked up to be and has released a command line shell and scripting language called Powershell.
So why don’t you learn some keyboard shortcuts and lose the mouse, you will more productive because of it.
[tags]productivity, mouse, command line, linux, windows, cygwin, powershell, shortcuts, gtd, launchy, lifehack[/tags]
This post was inspired by Gina Trapani’s Lifehacker post – Geek to Live: The command line comeback
It is now the new year and everyone is doing their New Year Resolutions. Many people say they want to lose weight or eat healthier. Remember there isn’t a magic diet out there, eating healther is a lifestyle change that you must put in the dedication to accomplish. Here are my 5 tips for getting yourself to eat healthier and working toward that lifestyle change we all aim for.
1. The first step to eating better is making defining meals you want to eat for the week that are healthy before making a grocery list & going to the store.
2. Make a grocery list itemizing the items you only need to make those meals.
3. Go to the grocery store and only purchase the items on that list. (never go to the grocery store hungry)
4. Go home and prepare the meals ahead of time if possible to reduce the cooking time it takes for those meals.
5. Actually cook and eat the meals you chose in item 1. (remember to eat normal portion sizes, a portion of meat is 6 ounces)
6. goto 1. rinse & repeat
I know this is easier said than done, but give it a try for your health’s sake. Remember if you don’t plan complete items 1 & 2 your going to the grocery store blind and will most certainly over buy & buy items that are not the most healthy.
[tags]eating, health, nutrition, shopping[/tags]
If any of my readers have a Wii, add your Wii friend under the comments here.
My Wii friend code is:Â 3180 4666 8212 2237
-Jeff
[tags]wii, nintendo, wii friend code[/tags]
I was just at Best Buy a little bit ago and they had released a windfall of 60gb PS3’s this evening. I could have just walked up and bought as many as I wanted. There were no lines, no mad rush, no fighting. I feel sorry for all those people that paid upwards to as much as $3,000 on ebay just a few short weeks ago. There were a few curious patrons buying the PS3, but you’d think with all the hoopla over the launch there would be a lot more people scrambling for this. If the ebay prices hadn’t fallen out, i would have bought one and resold it on ebay, but at this time there is no chance of making any money off suckers, because all the suckers have already been taken for a ride and everyone else has realized the PS3 is not all that and a bag of chips.
With all that said, there wasn’t a single Wii or Wii accesory available much to my dismay, i’m still looking to pick up an extra nun-chuck. I was able to score my component cables which are still hard to come by. The wii has been such a huge huge hit this season, even my mom and dad want one. They loved playing mine, and told me if I saw one to snag it for them. The Wii is truly a revolution in gaming.
[tags]sony, ps3, playstation, playstation 3, Wii, Nintendo, Revolution, console[/tags]
Some of you may already know that i’m a huge Scrubs and Zach Braff fan. The trailer for his new movie “Fast Track” is now online. The movie also stars Jason Bateman and Amanda Peet. Enjoy!
*update* just removed the video as it was causing errors on my home page. Here is a link.
http://us.video.aol.com/snag/?pmmsid=1793126&autoplay=0
I have officially dumped windows for 90% of my work and have switched to Ubuntu Linux for my desktop full time. I am still keeping a windows partition on my laptop for work purposes. I have been a long time linux user and have been using linux for 9 years now in my personal and professional life, but I have always had to keep windows around for certain tasks. If you haven’t used ubuntu yet, i recommend you heading over to Ubuntu’s Website and download some cd images and install and try it out.
Sorry about the sparse postings as of late. Sometimes life throws you curveballs. The curveballs thrown at me lately have thrown particularly hard. Some curveballs are un-hittable and others are. The curveballs that are hittable are up to us to do with, and hopefully we can hit those out of the park, i’d settle for a double and bat it in. If you can’t get a hit, try bunting, you may be able to turn around your slump. Think about it.