Monthly Archives: June 2007

Spot celebrities for productivity’s sake

June 6, 2007 • Comments (5)

Today at Aroma I saw Eric Idle. Now I love Monty Python as much as the next person, but my favorite celebrity sighting at Aroma was Michael Biehn, (Kyle Reese/Corporal Hicks/Crazy SEAL from the 3 best movies by James Cameron).
Aroma is where I go when I need to get out of the house and [...]

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How trust influences your blog post links

June 5, 2007 • Comments (1)

Until I started blogging in earnest I didn’t give much thought to who I linked to. If you’re sending someone an IM or email saying “check this out”, you don’t worry much about link rot.
If you’re writing a blog post, the more you trust the link to stay alive and stay “classy” the more [...]

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Lessons learned from the success of the Nintendo Wii

June 5, 2007 • Post a comment

By now the Wii’s runaway success seems inevitable like that of the iPod or Google search. Remember though, the iPod faced entrenched competitors like Creative and when Google entered the market search was considered a “solved” problem by the likes of Yahoo and Excite.
Fortune’s latest issue features a piece titled Wii Will Rock You by [...]

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Cube farm samurai

June 1, 2007 • Post a comment

I became an entrepreneur because I couldn’t spend the rest of my life like this:

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How to fix Aeron chair armrests

June 1, 2007 • Comments (4)

I’ve had my Aeron chair for maybe 6 years, and it’s the best office chair to ever cradle my butt.
Unfortunately, the armrest locking mechanism can only be described as a design failure of galactic proportions. After several hours of use the armrests loosen and fall. I suspect they used the weird wheel/gear armrest lock so [...]

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