I’m watching an episode of Top Gear. It’s their Polar Special. Two things come to mind: MythTV, and PVRs in general, are awesome. The guys on Top Gear and MythBusters have dream jobs. Now, I’m sure these jobs contain a lot of drudgery. Plenty of grind work that isn’t much… Read More
Ah, after a week spent out in the real world totally unplugged from the Internet, what nicer welcome could I receive on my return than a Best of 2007 Mashup album? I’m listening to it now, and it rocks! Any album with a combination of John Williams’ Imperial March from… Read More
Kudos out to the folks at MetaFilter for this thread that I wrote about a while back. I purchased several books mentioned in the thread, including: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward R. Tufte Crossing the Chasm, by Geoffrey A. Moore Influence: Science and Practice, by Robert B.… Read More
Mucking about with art stuff is so much fun. Read More
I spent today mucking about with design ideas for this website. I’ve been spending a lot of time with the design books I referred to in my last post, and I’ve decided design is a lot of fun. I’m toying with redesign ideas for the site, mostly to try to… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. The final week of the course found us all presenting one last time. The twist this time around was that the audience contained the entire class, as well as any guests they had invited. Not everyone brought… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. I did my make up session of week 3 of the course last night. It was a room of totally new people, but for one of the first times in my life, that didn’t bother me at… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 10 brings us close to the end of course. We reported back on how we’d been applying the leadership principles from the previous week, to our small groups. We also gave a presentation designed to inspire… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. The important part of week 9 was about how to disagree with someone agreeably. Conflict is everywhere, and people often have different views on any given topic. You’ve probably been in an argument with someone about something,… Read More
This is part of a series on the Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course. Week 8 had two themes: Leadership, and Being More Flexible. Leadership is outlined by the last set of principles from How To Win Friends and Influence People, which is about the difference between leading and commanding. Leaders… Read More
