Print matters!
This means:
Never ever use white text on dark backgrounds in PDFs. Do you think people are made of toner?
Always use a print-specific Cascading Style Sheet on your website. If you won’t do that then at least make sure your regular CSS only applies to screen display and let the browser apply default styles when [...]
The next time you’re whining about something ask yourself:
Am I problem solving or just venting?
Will venting fix the problem?
Does the person I’m complaining to really want to hear this?
Venting and seeking sympathy makes you worse off because instead of fixing the problem you end up feeling good enough to not take the action you need [...]
I hadn’t watched Tron in years, but in a recent viewing I noticed that Sark’s Carrier…
…looks just like the Sulaco from Aliens.
Both were designed by Syd Mead.
For more futurism, check out this Flickr set of Mead’s paintings.
Hopefully this post spawns a productive discussion about which ship would win in a fight.
Last month I wrote almost daily about my self improvement challenge. Writing daily was exhausting, but it helped me stay on track and reinforced all the new positive habits.
This month I wanted to write once a week about the 30 Day Challenge, but I haven’t written about it until now. You also might notice from [...]
I was reading a passage in Wherever You Go, There You Are about mastery: becoming so good at something that you can do it flawlessly without thinking. To master something you have to practice a lot, but you also have to practice mindfully. That means being aware of what you’re trying to achieve and monitoring [...]
On my Wordpress sidebar you’ll see a list of links called “Delicious.com favorites”. Those links are an auto-generated mashup of my del.icio.us and Google Reader Shared items*. All I have to do is hit the “share button” in G Reader or my browser’s del.icio.us button and links are automatically published to my sidebar for [...]
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