Monthly Archives: February 2008

Nerd word of the day: “Spock-block”

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29 day challenge: Days 23-24

The 29 days are winding down nicely. It feels like all my new grooves are well worn. I don’t foresee dropping any of them when the month is over.
Not only are the habits established, I’m getting better at them and I don’t have to overcome a lot of internal resistance to get them done.
I’d rate [...]

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Meditation breakthrough

The other day I had my best meditation session yet. Before beginning I decided not to tightly focus on breathing, but to to open my attention up. If distractions came I would notice them and let them pass.
With about a minute left I decided to emanate waves of loving kindness over my loved ones, [...]

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29 day challenge: One week left

It’s often said that it takes 21 daily repetitions to forge a constructive habit. As far as I know this hasn’t been tested or proven, but it sure feels truthiful.
Yesterday was the best day yet. I completed all active goals except drawing by noon. Morning exercise then the best meditation session yet charged me up [...]

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My new photo print store

ImageKind is a service where you upload photos or scanned artwork for on-demand printing. You can print for yourself or sell prints at whatever markup you choose. To test ImageKind I ordered one of my prints on glossy photo paper and the quality was outstanding. There are plenty of options for size, paper, matting, framing, [...]

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A list of the most useful Wordpress plugins

There are far too many Wordpress plugins to keep up with so here’s a list of plugins that I can’t live without. The list content was generated by Wordpress except for where I’ve annotated caveats and recommendations in red.

Plugin
Description

WordPress Database Backup
On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Austin Matzko. This bad boy will also email [...]

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Vermeer’s Hat: Globalization in the 17th century

Once again EconTalk earns its place as the one podcast I absolutely will not miss.
In this episode Russ Roberts interviews Timothy Brook, author of Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World.
Brook uses Vermeer’s paintings to illustrate points about the way global trade exploded in the 17th century. For example, [...]

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