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Category Archives: Mind Tricks

On a scale of 1 to 10…

Each evening I post to Twitter ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, today has been X productive and Y% fail’. It’s a simple daily ritual which allows me to quantify both how much I’ve got done and how frustrating it was doing it. At some point I plan to write a script to log [...]

Posted 16 February 2009 † John § Psychology § Social ‡ Comments (0) °

Updates

A couple of progress updates on things I’ve written about previously. First up, my ‘MacBook Mini’ is coming along excellently. I’ve been using it at work and to write some short stories, the battery life is brilliant and the keyboard is nearly as good as the one I use with my iMac. I’ve got speaker/headphone [...]

Posted 04 February 2009 † John § Hackintosh § Hardware § Mobile § Psychology § Rails § Social § Software § Technology ‡ Comments (3) °

First Steps

Today is the first day for my new plan of not watching TV at 8pm, and here I am watching TV while I wait for my food to cook. I’m happy with that, though, since the project management system is looking good and I want to take some time to write up my first experiences [...]

Posted 05 January 2009 † John § Rails ‡ Comments (0) °

Defeating Failure

The New Year’s Resolution I kept for the longest time, one I made in High School and didn’t break until 2006, was to not make any New Year’s Resolutions. I didn’t keep the one I made in 2006, and I don’t think I’ve ever kept any of the ones I made when I was younger [...]

Posted 29 December 2008 † John § Software ‡ Comments (1) °

Confession.

I have a dirty little secret. Admitting it in public could subject me to ridicule and potentially even hurt my future career prospects – but I’m going to do it anyway. I’m really apathetic and lazy. Okay, for some people who know me that’s not a secret – I do, after all, own the ‘apathy.org.uk’ [...]

Posted 23 November 2008 † John § Software ‡ Comments (4) °