Making a big impact while staying small. This interview with Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster is worth listening to. Even though Craigslist is a major force on the Internet, the whole company is no more than 18 people! They keep things very simple and don't pay any attention to the competition. Rather than dreaming up new… Continue reading Making a big impact while staying small

LUA, LUA, LUA. Are you running as a member of the Administrator group right now? If so, I need you to raise your hand, hold it behind your head, and give yourself a dope slap! There's absolutely no reason for any developer to be logged in as a member of the Administrator's group. I've been… Continue reading LUA, LUA, LUA

Gym vs. Sports. (Sidenote: I'm still puzzled a little by the fact that my geek friends and I got almost no exercise at all when we were kids in the 50's and 60's, and yet we were all skinny as rails. We drank whole milk, ate greasy burgers, and put butter on everything from toast… Continue reading Gym vs. Sports

Rails Recipes premieres in beta book form. Chad Fowler has completed the first draft of the initial 21 chapters for Rails Recipes and is now making the work available as a beta book for purchase. The final book is still a ways off, but this is an awesome opportunity to get at the very timely… Continue reading Rails Recipes premieres in beta book form

What would happen if google re-designed their site?. An interesting article pointing out some flaws with the current google design: Click here  [BrainFuel]

Fiber Scam?. MuniWireless and TechDirt describe a recent book that claims telephone companies have scammed approximately $200 billion from all of us (about $2,000 per household), promising fiber to every home with symmetric 45 Mbps speeds and an open access model. For the last decade, those same telcos have made promise after promise to local… Continue reading Fiber Scam?

Open Source Flaim. The new, slimmer Calvin has quietly announced that Novell has open sourced the flaim database, which removes a major blocker to getting iFolder into Ubuntu and Debian. Thanks guys! (Martin's already working on it, yay!) [jorge @ whiprush.org]

Tasks Pro 1.6 has been released! Read the Press Release. [Tasks Pro™ News]

The Secret of My Catholic Education. I'm the Official Computer Guy for my 40th grade school reunion, and as June bears down on us and things kick into high gear, I've been thinking about things that I haven't thought about since, well, 1966. One of the great mysteries is how the school even functioned with… Continue reading The Secret of My Catholic Education

kGTD Tip: Link to sites, files, and more. This is technically more of an OmniOutliner Pro tip than a strictly kGTD trick, but it’s so useful that I wanted to make sure my fellow fans are aware of it. The beauty of kGTD lies in its single-minded focus on managing your tasks in the context… Continue reading kGTD Tip: Link to sites, files, and more