Monthly Archives: February 2008

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.

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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 … Continue reading 

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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.

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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 … Continue reading 

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Wordpress Search Engine Optimization

Today my Wordpress dashboard linked to a guide to SEO’ing your Wordpress blog that’s readable by non-techies. Some highlights:

Good SEO is mostly just good web design and copywriting. This means using friendly URLs, meaningful HTML like <strong> instead of <b>old, … Continue reading 

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Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

From YouTube:

Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who is dying from pancreatic cancer, gave his last lecture at the university Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McConomy Auditorium. In his moving talk, “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his … Continue reading 

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Your secret army of experts

These are some professions of people I know:

Computer programmers (at least 3 that are awesome)
IT architect
IT project manager with a huge budget
Interior designer/contractor
Biotech ethicist
Musicians (some of whom have toured in bands you may have heard of)
Apple sales rep
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