My goals for the end of March were: 3 quality hours of readingcomplete synthesis of the organ bookpick the next book to read and start in March In March, I did spend 2 hours out of the 3 planned, b...
Why I am returning my Seiki 39" 4K "monitor"
Notice the tiny 27" iMac behind the Seiki After reading some recent blog posts (such as 4K is for programmers) about using the Seiki SE39UY04 39-Inch 4K TV as a computer monitor, I figured ...
Reading plan: March 1 checkin
At last month’s checkin, I had the following goals: complete my quick synthesis of the organ bookpick the next book to read and start in Februaryspend about 5 hours in total I failed on all c...
Reading plan: February 1 checkin
This is my February 1 checkin following my Books I plan to read in 2014 post. January was a short month as I posted my resolution on January 20 only. The good news is that I have finished The Organ...
2013 year in review
(The following is inspired by my brother’s 2012 en chiffres and 2013 en chiffres “year in numbers” posts, with some twists!) In 2013, we had 1 baby The first defining moment of 2013 for our famil...
Firefox vs. Chrome
Image from lifehacker I use Firefox regularly for testing, but Chrome has been my default browser on OS X for a few years. Yesterday I used Firefox again the whole day as the latest Dev Cha...
Why I am disappointed by Google buying Nest
Why is everyone disappointed by Google buying Nest?<blockquote class="tr_bq">Instead, there’s a chorus of concern — some sincere, some contrived, but all of it grounded in fear of an unchecke...
Books I plan to read in 2014
Photo by Matthias Buehler As Randy Pausch said, “Yes, you are going to have to change the plan. But you can’t change it, unless you have it”. I like what @buster says about sharing resolu...
GTD review buddies: an update
About a month and a half ago, at the end of September, I wrote about setting up a “GTD review buddy system” with Alex. I can report that it went pretty well: Alex and I did 7 GTD review session...
Reading resolution: an update
About a month and a half ago, at the end of September, I wrote about setting up a “GTD review buddy system” with Alex. I can report that it went pretty well: Alex and I did 7 GTD review session...