It’s fitting that this is the first week I begin culling the underused applications from my Mac, seeing as I’ve just acquired a shiny new 11-inch MacBook Air. My old machine (2007 model 15-inch MacBook Pro) was equipped with a 320 GB hard drive. Even by going for the higher end stock unit, my new notebook […]
While I have delivered my essential podcast subscriptions here recently, this week I’d be remiss if I didn’t recommend some one-off episodes that “you gotta listen” to1: Back to Work: Rob Corddry and Jonathan Coulton With Dan Benjamin on parental sabbatical, Merlin Mann has brought in a couple of linchpins to chat with in Childrens
I have had a “coming and going” relationship with Apple during my lifetime. The first computer I ever had was an Apple IIc, back when all of my friends had Commodore 64s. As a middle-school aged kid, I wasn’t terribly impressed by the monochrome screen that seemed as small as the little television we took
You done good. Real good. Like reinventing the “way many of us live” good.1 1 I’ll offer more on Steve Jobs in an article later this week…but here’s a bit of “eventual” nostalgia to tide you over until then.
Candle by Paddywax. Pencil by Uniball. Notebook by Moleskine. Computer by Apple.1 1 Believing by Me in this. And this.
“My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.” — Jack Layton, 1950-2011 I had other things that I had planned to write today. But when my wife phoned me this morning to tell
In my last installment of the Decluttering iStuff series, I purged all but two of my third-party camera apps from my iPhone. This time around, I have the more daunting task of eliminating a ton of Twitter apps from both my iPhone and iPad. I suppose that some of the apps I’m eliminating don’t just
This morning I’m appearing on CBC Radio One’s On The Island, where I’ll be talking with this week’s host David Lennam about a bunch of lifehackery stuff. Ira Glass, host of the NPR program This American Life, had this to say about Canada’s public broadcaster: “I feel like there are more things on the CBC
The Over I’ve been overcome with emotion lately; it can be seen in much of what has been written here…like in this piece. I’ve been overwrought. Knowing that I’ve been steps away from either taking yet another big leap or from running in the other direction. I’ve been overwhelmed, mainly due to overcommitment. The resulting
Powered by Robot Army Industries