Weekend Reader – programming, lifehacks, code, blogging, funny

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. You can follow this list of links as I post them on Friend Feed or on Twitter. Or you can get the weekly update by subscribing to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.

• [BLOGGING] 70 Simple Power Tao Secret Hacks to Writing the Perfect Productivity Article, Plus a Guide & System for Doing It, thegrowinglife.com
  • The ultimate guide to writing lifehack posts. :)
• [BLOGGING] A Secret to Blogging Success – Build Upon What You Build, problogger.net
  • Good advice for anything, really. Always leverage what strengths you already have.
• [BLOGGING] Thurday at Noon is the best time post and be noticed (PST), 3.rdrail.net
  • When is the best time to post a story that will get noticed?
• [CODE] Git forking for fun and profit, blog.labnotes.org
  • Really good explanation of distributed version control and GIT and why you should git it.
• [CODE] Invitation to try out open source code review tool, mail.python.org
  • Google’s Mondrian code review tool is going open source.
• [CODE] Programmers Don’t Read Books — But You Should, codinghorror.com
  • Reading one programming book a year makes you a better programmer than the average.
• [COMMUNITY] Listening to Customers is Hard, Hard, Hard, continuations.wenger.us
  • Some tips on how to make the most out of customer feedback.
• [CROSSLOOP] The Crossloop Community, winextra.com
  • I’ve been unhappy with the social aspect of Crossloop before (namely, takes to long to get someone to install the software), but the “helper” marketplace can be a great thing.
• [DIGG] The StatBot pits Digg vs Digg, thestatbot.com
  • Digg 2007 vs Digg 2008 for keywords
• [GEEK] J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz, linearpublishing.com
  • Harry Potter author misuses copyright to sue related work by fan she once gave an award to.
• [GEEK] Nomophobia and The Curse of The Mobile Phone, putthingsoff.com
  • What kind of mobile phone user are you?
• [IPHONE] iPhone Canada: Pay me now, or pay me later, mathewingram.com
  • The iPhone is coming to Canada, but will this mean data plans open up? My guess, big no. Rogers has too much of a track record when it comes to sucking.
• [LASTFM] soundamus – new and upcoming music releases from the artists you listen to, soundamus.net
  • Website that gives you an RSS feed to alert you when your favs on Last.FM release new music.
• [LIFEHACKS] The Battle for Our Minds, thegrowinglife.com
  • Using our minds at work all day is making us stupid.
• [SLEEPHACKS] Sleep deprivation is not a badge of honor, 37signals.com
  • From the article: ” If you encounter someone who’s acting like an ass, there’s a good chance they’re suffering from sleep deprivation.”
• [SOCIALMEDIA] Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict, readwriteweb.com
  • Scripts for Twitter, FriendFeed, Digg, Delicious, Facebook, and Flickr. Several of them by yours truly.
• [TECH] Early adopter angst, scobleizer.com
  • Arguments why earlier adopters do matter.
• [TECH] What’s Mainstream Technology? Ask Joe Average, The Spouse, Grandma, and Dave Letterman — Webomatica – Technology and Entertainment Digest, webomatica.com
  • How to figure out if tech is mainstream.
• [TWITTER] TwitterSnooze! v0.13, twittersnooze.com
  • Stop following someone for a few days.
• [WORKHACKS] Up or Out: Solving the IT Turnover Crisis, thedailywtf.com
  • Embrace change, and quit your job when you start to stagnate.

Delicious Links – 20 links – tools, gamers, workhacks, code, links

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.

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• [BITTORRENT] Dutch University Uses BitTorrent to Update Workstations, torrentfreak.com, via:l33t.reddit.com
  • Pretty cool. Then when from 20 servers and 4 days to update clients to 2 servers and 4 hours to update clients.
  • (bittorrent, 15 saves, 22 inbound links, diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 17 Tips For Getting Bloggers To Write About You, informationweek.com, via:doshdosh.com
  • This should be titled “WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS”. Mandatory reading for understanding linking. It gets bonus points because the article doesn’t follow its own rules.
  • (blogging, tips, Linkbait, links, 54 inbound links)
• [CODE] insomnia and productivity, sob.apotheon.org
  • hack mode
  • (code, programming, 2 saves, 3 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] Elite Bloggers Joining FriendFeed In Droves, louisgray.com
  • List of tech bloggers who are on friendfeed
  • (friendfeed, blogging, lifestreaming, 15 saves, 50 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Animal Crossing Is Tragic, animalcrossingtragedy.ytmnd.com
  • Sad little tale of a gamer who shared Animal Crossing with his/her dying mother.
  • (animalcrossing, gamers, 15 saves, diggs)
• [GAMERS] The Co-op Gaming Bill of Rights, ozymandias.com
  • Co-op gaming can be a ghetto on a lot of platforms. I’d love for more games to adopt these.
  • (gamers, xbox360, 2 saves, 12 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [GAMERS] Warlords Online, warlords-online.com, via:lazycoder.com
  • Online MPORG based on Puzzle Quest
  • (gamers, puzzlequest, 15 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [LINKS] Ten Sites for Finding Wonderful Things, readwriteweb.com, via:twitter.com
  • Some suggestions for ‘best of the weird web’
  • (links, fun, 15 saves, 20 inbound links, 649 diggs)
• [OPENID] Zero Sign On – 1 better or Infinitely better than Single Sign On?, drnicwilliams.com
  • How to use OpenID certificates so that you NEVER have to log in to any site that supports OpenID.
  • (openid, authentication, certificates, firefox, 15 saves, 47 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [TECH] The real reason I left my career in tech, backinskinnyjeans.com
  • What women have to deal with being in the hightech workplace
  • (tech, women, 8 saves, 10 inbound links, 34 diggs)
• [TWITTER] 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe, flowingdata.com
  • Some cool examples of visualizing data
  • (twitter, visualization, tools, 15 saves, 94 inbound links, 12 diggs)
• [TWITTER] Need help managing your Twitter Karma?, dossy.org, via:experiencecurve.com
  • Something I’ve been complaining about. A better Twitter followers manager. Needs more info about the followees though.
  • (twitter, mashup, 15 saves, 10 inbound links, 185 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] 20 Websites That Made Me A Better Web Developer, sixrevisions.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • List of webdesign related websites. Most are familiar.
  • (webdesign, development, design, 15 saves, 65 inbound links, 3621 diggs)
• [WEBDESIGN] Administrative Debris, tomayko.com
  • Content is everything… then why do we display so much stuff that isn’t content?
  • (design, tufte, usability, 15 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [WEBDESIGN] IE App Compat VHD, microsoft.com
  • Virtual machine images of different versions of Internet Explorer so that you can test a website on multiple versions of the same web browser.
  • (windows, virtualization, testing, 3 saves, 100 inbound links)
• [WEBHACKS] Down for everyone or just me?, downforeveryoneorjustme.com
  • Find out if a website is unreachable for the entire net or just your machine
  • (tools, internet, network, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 8 diggs)
• [WEBSAVVY] the Awesome Highlighter – be nice, highlight, awesomehighlighter.com
  • note to my parents: please use this all the time so I have some clue why you sent me that web page in an email.
  • (tools, highlighter, web2.0, sharing, 15 saves, 100 inbound links, 29 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] 10 Ways to Improve Your Programming Productivity, matthewpaulmoore.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Good advice, even if none of is groundbreaking.
  • (advice, workhacks, code, programming, 15 saves, 28 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [WORKHACKS] 9 Simple Strategies to Getting Things Done At Work, lyved.com
  • Tricks for being more productive in the office
  • (productivity, lifehacks, workhacks, 15 saves, 12 inbound links, 679 diggs)
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•   [DELICIOUS/STUMBLEUPON] Delicious Stumbles v2.0
  StumbleUpon upgraded their interface last nice so that means you get a new version of Delicious Stumbles.

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• Installing ruby-prof as a plugin on Rails 1.2
• rails/mysql: Load your production database on to your development server
• How not to replace WEBrick with Thin

Tags: blogging, code, design, gamers, links, programming, tools, twitter, workhacks

Searching for the Perfect Inline Code Documentation Tool

Even amongst programmers I’m weird because I have an intense love for documentation. No, that doesn’t mean I overly comment my code, or that you’ll catch me browsing happily through the product requirements document during my coffee break. I should be more specific.

I have an intense love automatic documentation generation. Nothing makes me more tickled pink than seeing code and documentation living side by side in perfect harmony. I hate seeing documentation put on the company intranet only to diverge from the code it’s supposed to explain as the days go past. I hate hitting my head against a brick wall as I’m pouring through the source code trying to understand an API because at no point does it mention that it’s documented in a Word doc in another directory.

This is my rule of programming: documentation should live beside the code it documents, in the comments, especially if it’s API documentation. If your language of choice doesn’t already have some kind of automatic code generation tool then you’re probably using the wrong language.

Delicious Links – 19 links – tips, google, music, code, blogging

This is my weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together for my blog on Internet Duct Tape.

Subscribe to Internet Duct Tape using RSS or using email.

• [BLOGGING] The Benefits of Keeping a Private Journal, doshdosh.com
  • Brilliant tip and way to keep mindful of your goals.
  • (blogging, 7 saves, 20 inbound links)
• [BLOGGING] What’s it Like to Run a Popular Blog?, skelliewag.org
  • Skelliewag talks about her meteoric success and what’s different about having 3500 readers vs the 100 or so she had just a few short months ago.
  • (blogging, success, tips, 7 saves, 9 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [BOOKS] Inside Google Book Search: Your library, my library, booksearch.blogspot.com
  • You can keep track of the books you’ve read with Google library, and limit your book searches to only the books you’ve already read.
  • (google, library, books, 2 saves, 13 inbound links)
• [CODE] Programmers At Work, programmersatwork.wordpress.com
  • New website about the 1980’s book.
  • (code, 26 saves, 11 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Rampant Plagiarism, mightygodking.com, via:io9.com
  • The rampant plagiarism of the comics industry is revealed!
  • (comics, photoshop, 12 saves, 22 inbound links)
• [FRIENDFEED] 10 Ways to Get More Out of Friendfeed, blogoscoped.com
  • Some quick tips for the new service that everyone’s blogging about.
  • (friendfeed, tips, socialnetworking, 35 saves, 19 inbound links, 2 diggs)
• [GMAIL] Gmail Tips and Tricks – 35 Cool Gmail Hacks, botw.org, via:doshdosh.com
  • Yes, we’ve seen a lot of them before. But a good collection.
  • (gmail, tips, lifehacks, 368 saves, 15 inbound links, 67 diggs)
• [GOOGLE] The Real Story: Why ComScore’s Google Clicks are Flat, seoblackhat.com
  • Google Adsense changes are why adclicks are down. Buy Google stock because the market is full of idiots.
  • (google, 11 saves, 26 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [HUMOR] Mobile Desktop, improveverywhere.com, via:codinghorror.com
  • Improv Everywhere brings their desktop computers to Starbucks.
  • (humor, geek, 130 saves, 100 inbound links, 3059 diggs)
• [HUMOR] Stuff White People Like, stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com, via:gilesbowkett.blogspot.com
  • Recursion at its best. White people like Stuff White People Like.
  • (funny, humour, 2364 saves, 100 inbound links, 104 diggs)
• [LASTFM] Build Last.fm: Extend your Last.fm experience, build.last.fm, via:del.icio.us
  • Last.FM is promoting community created tools that use the service.
  • (last.fm, music, tools, mashup, 386 saves, 82 inbound links, 17 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Your Brain Is In 10 Kinds of Trouble, secretgeek.net
  • No solutions, but a discussion of the information overload we’re all experiencing.
  • (productivity, overload, 12 saves, 10 inbound links)
• [MUSIC] The Filter Releases New Version of Music Recommendation Software, readwriteweb.com
  • Playlist generator from your iTunes library
  • (itunes, LastFM, music, mp3, 17 saves, 3 inbound links, 27 diggs)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] FriendFeed Changelog, changelog.friendfeed.com
  • wth? A web app that publishes its new features via it’s version control changelog.Brilliant.
  • (friendfeed, transparency, code, socialsoftware, 16 saves, 8 inbound links)
• [SOCIALSOFTWARE] This Psychologist Might Outsmart the Math Brains Competing for the Netflix Prize, wired.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Interview with the guy who is building a better recommendation engine using psychology instead of math.
  • (psychology, algorithm, netflix, datamining, 71 saves, 35 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [SOFTWARE] Rethinking Recommendation Engines, readwriteweb.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • Damn good point in this one. The human psychology behind recommendations is what makes recommendations fail. Instead of telling use what we like, just remove what we’re NOT going to like.
  • (recommendations, personalization, 135 saves, 35 inbound links, 6 diggs)
• [TWITTER] Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls, russellbeattie.com, via:news.ycombinator.com
  • From the article: ” Twitter, however, has almost a million members, a thriving community, lots of discussions and yet doesn’t have spam or troll issues. If you step back for a second and think about it, that’s pretty amazing.”
  • (twitter, community, spam, 80 saves, 51 inbound links)
• [WORDPRESS] Installing WordPress Locally Under Windows XP, geeksaresexy.blogspot.com
  • I don’t know why I never did this before.
  • (wordpress, windows, 361 saves, 92 inbound links, 7 diggs)
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• How to Explain RSS to Normal People – 2008 Edition
  • As a geek who enjoys spending too much time on the internet, I like RSS almost as much as delicious toast. As a blogger, RSS is the shiznitz because it lets you consume a lot more information and it makes it easier for other people to read your blog without having to drop by every few days to see if…
• I Can Has Ruby?
  • I have a new tumblelog for ruby stuff.
• How to delete your Tumblr tumblelog with TumblrCleanr
  • There’s one feature missing on Tumblr: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every individual…
• Delicious Links – 13 links – programming, lifehacks, productivity, geek, games

This Week at IDT Labs

IDT Labs is where I announce new software tools I’m working on.

• [TUMBLR] Regular Post Digest of the Last X Days
  • Build a list of the last X regular posts from your Tumblr account in the past Y days. Useful for doing weekly digest posts with Yahoo Pipe Cleaner
• [TUMBLR] Delete your Tumblr with TumblrCleanr 0.0.1
  • There’s one Tumblr feature that’s missing: how do you delete your Tumblr? At some point you might want to destroy all traces of your tumblr (privacy concerns, or you want to use it for something else) and there isn’t an option to do that — other than click the delete button on every…

This Week at Ruby, eh?

Ruby, eh? is where I blog/tumble about the Ruby programming language.

• Rake RDocTask with all of the options stubbed out
  • http://pastie.caboo.se/159372  Rake::RDocTask.new(:rdoc) do |rd| # rd.external # run the rdoc process as an external shell # rd.main = “name” # ‘name’ will be the initial page displayed # rd.rdoc_dir = “html” # set the output directory # rd.rdoc_file = [] # List of files…
• Rake: Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file
  • There’s probably an easier way to do this. http://pastie.caboo.se/159362  # Recursively parse a list of all the requires from a source file def local_requires(source) results = [] File.open(source,’r’).each_line do |line| if line =~ /require [‘”]([^'”]+)[‘”]/…
• I Can Has RSS?I’ve switched to FeedBurner for RSS support . And set up full feeds, thanks to Alex . (I had no idea that they were turned off!)
• Bulk updating Gem sourcegem install allison Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org I swear to god that rubyforge is actually a humongous peer to peer network made up from stealing our bandwidth when we do a gem install.
• Rake Tip: force tasks to run based on operating systemhttp://pastie.caboo.se/158812 task :windows_only do raise “Must be run from Windows, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /mswin/ end task :linux_only do raise “Must be run from Linux, not #{RUBY_PLATFORM}” unless RUBY_PLATFORM =~ /linux/ end
• Rake TipBAD: s.gsub(/.rb$/,’.exe’) GOOD:  File.basename(s).ext(‘exe’)
• Rails: how to delete ActiveRecords to a recycling bin
  • The contenders: acts_as_paranoid – 2005-09-17  Creates a delete_at column and overrides finders to ignore columns with deleted_at set. Last release was 2005-12-20, about 1600 downloads. Around ~100 blog mentions. This guy is using it instead of acts_as_trashable   Reported not working on…
• validates_presence_of and validates_length_of
  • Pick one : validates_presence_of :snausages validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3 OR validates_length_of :snausages, :maximum => 3, :allow_nil => true I broke my app because of not including allow_nil grep validates_length_of app/models/*.rb | grep -v allow_nil // engtech  …

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Best of Feeds – 30 links – programming, productivity, code, socialsoftware, socialnetworking

RSS feeds are like cookies (that are good enough for me). Best of Feeds is a weekly collection of the best stuff I saw on the Internet this week. They’re saved on delicious and stumbleupon and cross-posted to Twitter and Tumblr as they happen and then collected together on Saturdays. I don’t blog on the weekend so read these links instead.

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• [DESIGN] Biggest Mistakes in Web Design 1995-2015
  • Great and humorous overview of everything people do wrong
  • (design, usability, web)
  • (webpagesthatsuck.com, 1000 saves, 1847 diggs)
• [BLOGGING] 27 Tips for Building a Kick-Ass Blog
  • Very good, and winner of the DailyBlogTips tips contest.
  • (blogging, blog, tips, marketing)
  • (performancing.com, 720 saves, 92 inbound links, 899 diggs)
• [RESUME] Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume
  • Resume tips for programmers.
  • (resume, career, tips, cv, advice)
  • (steve-yegge.blogspot.com, 636 saves, 58 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [CODE] A Visual Guide to Version Control
  • Print this off and give it to the guy at work who still doesn’t use revisioning.
  • (subversion, svn, versioncontrol, programming)
  • (betterexplained.com, 574 saves, 19 inbound links, 51 diggs)
• [FIREFOX] Create the Ultimate Firefox Web Development Profile
  • Has all of my favorites, plus a few that I was missing like open in Opera, IE View Lite
  • (firefox, webdev, extensions, webdesign)
  • (howtogeek.com, 420 saves, 30 inbound links, 9 diggs)
• [INTERVIEWS] The Button
  • The best way to be successful in interviews is to ask interesting questions.
  • (career, interview, interviewing, interviews, hiring, rands)
  • (randsinrepose.com, 333 saves, 30 inbound links, 756 diggs)
• [CODE] RefactorMyCode.com
  • Post up code snippets to get help. Supports multiple languages.
  • (code, refactoring, ruby, rubyonrails, community)
  • (refactormycode.com, 310 saves, 32 inbound links, 761 diggs)
• [SOCIAL] Turn Gmail (or any E-mail Account) Into a Social Network Hub
  • Using RSS and open APIs to make Gmail your one inbox to rule them all.
  • (gmail, socialnetworking, facebook, Twitter, socialsoftware)
  • (micropersuasion.com, 294 saves, 64 inbound links, 13 diggs)
• [BROWSER] WebRunner – MozillaWiki
  • Standalone mozilla based browser client for interacting with a specific web site. The ultimate distraction free environment.
  • (browser, mozilla, webrunner)
  • (wiki.mozilla.org, 286 saves, 92 inbound links)
• [DESIGN] Over 35 Different Styles of RSS Icons
  • Something you always need for blog design.
  • (rss, icons, design, webdesign)
  • (designbliss.com, 259 saves, 27 inbound links, 7 diggs)
• [CODE] Confessions of a Terrible Programmer
  • From the article: ” You will never become a Great Programmer until you acknowledge that you will always be a Terrible Programmer.”
  • (programming, development, advice, debugging)
  • (kickin-the-darkness.blogspot.com, 193 saves, 18 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [CODE] Fire your best people…reward the lazy ones
  • TroubleShooters vs TroublePreventers
  • (programming, management, productivity, code)
  • (testearly.com, 146 saves, 29 inbound links, 1 diggs)
• [CODE] Building a Fort: Lessons in Software Estimation
  • Steve McConnel builds a fort and compares it to building software.
  • (development, programming, estimation)
  • (blogs.construx.com, 142 saves, 13 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [GTD] tracks.tra.in
  • Free online version of the Tracks app built in Rails.
  • (GTD, productivity, tracks, web2.0)
  • (tracks.tra.in, 138 saves, 57 inbound links)
• [PROBLOG] 46 Tax Deductions that Bloggers Often Overlook
  • Tax deductions for people who run their blog like a small business.
  • (taxes, business, blogging, tax, problogger)
  • (problogger.net, 81 saves, 21 inbound links, 30 diggs)
• [LIFEHACKS] Personal unit tests
  • Lifehacks for programmers goes to far :)
  • (lifehacks, productivity, gtd, geek, organization)
  • (hober.backpackit.com, 66 saves, 13 inbound links)
• [WEB2.0] Social Networking Invitation Etiquette
  • How inviting people on social networks should work. How you know the person, and who you know in common.
  • (socialnetworking, netiquette, socialsoftware, web2.0)
  • (radar.oreilly.com, 60 saves, 30 inbound links, 3 diggs)
• [COPYRIGHT] Creative Commons sued for deception
  • Another useless lawsuit. He licensed his photos as free for commercial use and now whines when it happens. That isn’t a default setting.
  • (creativecommons, copyright)
  • (theregister.co.uk, 22 saves, 33 inbound links, 5 diggs)
• [STARTUPS] User Bases, Pricing, Revenue, and the Value of Users
  • Back of the envelope calculations for how much revenue per user and number of users you need with a freemium model.
  • (software, revenue, startups, entrepreneurship)
  • (blogs.xobni.com, 14 saves, 2 inbound links)
• [HUMOR] Why I switched back from Rails to Assembler
  • follow up from the ruby to php article
  • (ruby, rails, humor, rubyonrails)
  • (jooto.com, 10 saves, 3 inbound links, 4 diggs)
• [GEEK] Amazing LEGO n’ milk 3D Scanner
  • Create 3 dimensional scans of objects using milk (opaque liquid) and lego. Pretty crazy video.
  • (3d, hardware, diy, lego)
  • (etre.com, 9 saves, 14 inbound links)
• [SMO] 7 reasons why i thumbed you down on stumbleupon
  • I think most StumbleUpon users think the same way, I know that I do.
  • (socialsoftware, smo, stumbleupon)
  • (muhammadsaleem.com, 3 saves, 9 inbound links, 28 diggs)
• [PDF] How to Edit, Merge, Split and Convert PDF Files
  • Freeware tool for PDF editing
  • (pdf, freeware, editors)
  • (friedbeef.com, 2 saves)
• [IPOD] Death Clock
  • Find out when your iPod is going to die based on usage.
  • (ipod, itunes)
  • (thefoologs.com, 3 inbound links)
• [COMICS] Boxen
  • Tool for creating comic layouts. Builds a blank layout you can print or import into your graphics program.
  • (boxen, comics, art, photoshop)
  • (simulatedcomicproduct.com, 2 diggs)
• [CODE] OSCON 2007: A Lexicon for Open Source, by r0ml
  • Interesting idea, use old latin words that mean the same thing in tech instead of inventing acronyms
  • (code, latin, programming)
  • (canspice.org)
• [MICROSOFT] Bug in Excel 2007
  • Excel 2007 suffers from amateur variable size overflow bug that is typical of a 1st year university student
  • (excel, 2007, Microsoft)
  • (groups.google.com, 52 inbound links)
• [STARTUPS] Learn From an Adsense Millionaire: Notes on Markus Frind and PlentyofFish.com
  • Great collection of quotes from one of my startup heroes, Markus Frind.
  • (plentyoffish, adsense, quotes)
  • (doshdosh.com, 27 inbound links, 9 diggs)
• [FIREFOX] Four Ways to Make More Money with Adsense Firefox Referrals Program
  • I encourage people to use Firefox all the time. I should look into this.
  • (firefox, adsense)
  • (doshdosh.com, 9 inbound links)
• [GTD] 20 Procrastination Hacks
  • I think this actually covers everything I’ve ever read on moving from procrastination to getting things done.
  • (gtd, lifehacks, productivity, procrastination)
  • (betterlifeforum.com, 15 inbound links, 1 diggs)

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• inbound links – number of blogs who linked to it (max 100)
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• When is it time to get a new iPod?

  Death Clocks use statistical information to let you know when you are going to die based on your habits (with smoking and obesity being the worst factors). The iPod Death Clock (via) is an interesting little web app that figures out how much longer your iPod has to live based on the serial number…

• 7 Tips for Learning the Declutter Habit

  Why declutter? It frees up your house and it frees up your mind. Your possessions own you as anyone who has ever had to move repeatedly over the course of several years can attest. It was moving twice in one year that finally got me to get rid of CDs I no longer listened to and textbooks I…

• Blog Tip: Creating a Blog Maintenance Start Page with Netvibes

  In Blogger GTD, Leo mentioned that it was a good idea to have one inbox for all your blogging related notifications. I hate cluttering in my inbox, but I do agree that it makes sense to have a single point of reference rather to spend 5 minutes checking some information in one place and then spend 5…

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