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Tweets thru 2008-03-31

personal,twitter | Monday, March 31st, 2008
  • Sun Mar 30 21:04:19 2008 macbook air – 1st week impressions – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=28
  • Sun Mar 30 20:25:38 2008 GTD on RTM – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=26
  • Fri Mar 28 23:36:47 2008 AAPL – bucking the trend – http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=24
  • Mon Mar 24 04:50:32 2008 New blog post: time machine
  • Mon Mar 24 04:30:03 2008 installing SugarSync to keep my Air in sync with my MBP. http://tinyurl.com/3867qt
  • Fri Mar 21 23:09:15 2008 ugh…moving back from Safari 3.1 to FF2 so I can use Google Gears with RTM and Google Reader…we need Gears for Safari! soon, i know…
  • Fri Mar 21 04:43:10 2008 New blog post: got a macbook air (craigslist deal o’ the century) http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=17
  • Tue Mar 11 06:47:56 2008 New blog post: i ♥ helvetica http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=14
  • Sat Mar 08 00:19:28 2008 made fluid.app SSB’s for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Reader, and Remember the Milk. :)
  • Thu Mar 06 22:36:53 2008 New blog post: decent, cheap iPhone replacement headset http://uninteresting.org/nerd/?p=11
  • Wed Mar 05 07:03:12 2008 inner nerd, part deux – http://uninteresting.org/rich/2008/03/04/inner-nerd-part-deux/
  • Wed Mar 05 02:20:56 2008 my fico score – http://tinyurl.com/2qdmyn
  • Wed Mar 05 01:45:27 2008 apple is most admired – http://tinyurl.com/2km9oa
  • Tue Mar 04 16:50:27 2008 hbo: in treatment – http://tinyurl.com/3acgjr

macbook air – 1st week impressions

mac | Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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i’ve had my Air for a week now, enough to have some pretty solid impressions. i don’t use it 100% as my primary machine – i switch back and forth with my work machine (a 17″ Macbook Pro, 2.33). the goal is to be able to move between machines transparently – both environments completely in sync – and it’s mostly working.

  • though it’s technically the slowest mac available, i find it plenty peppy. it is still a dual-core processor with 2GB of ram…so OS X runs really well on it for most basic tasks. it won’t play high-end games or do serious video editing, but for everything else it’s great.
  • the screen is amazing. when waking from sleep it comes to full brightness immediately (thanks to the new LED technology). and it’s super-sharp. it’s my preferred screen to use when compared against my 17″ MBP, Dell 2405FPW, and 24″ Apple Cinema Display.
  • the keyboard is full-sized and has a great feel.
  • i’m using a free beta account of SugarSync to keep things in sync with my MBP. so far, it’s working really well. when i make a change on one machine, it’s immediately uploaded to their servers and sync’d down to the other machine. it also means i have a backup of everything online, accessible from any browser. unless another solution comes around before my beta runs out (dropbox is getting a lot of hype), i’ll be signing up .
  • .mac sync keeps a bunch of other things in sync: bookmarks, address book, dashboard widgets, mail accounts, keychain, and textexpander shortcuts.
  • i’ve used 30gb out of 75gb avail. i have all the files i need on it, except 2 big space hogs that i keep separately: my iPhoto and iTunes library.
  • storage expansion options are pretty cheap, though i’m not sure i even need them:
    • usb flash drives (16GB is down to $80)
    • usb-powered hard drives (250GB for about $130)
  • my one gripe is that the battery doesn’t last long when the screen is at full brightness and wifi is on – probably about 2-2.5 hrs. but if you turn the screen down and use wifi intermittently, it’s easily 3-4 hours. this isn’t such a big deal since 95% of the time i’m near a power outlet and the a/c adapter is really small.

overall, it’s amazing. usually when i see a new product announced, i can tell right away how useful it would be to me. when the Air was announced i thought, ‘eh, it’s cool but i don’t really need one.’ fast forward 2 months after seeing it in person and thinking about what the form factor and portability offer, and i was lusting after it. fast forward another week after owning it, and now i couldn’t go back. i used it on the toilet today…that should give an impression of how portable it is.

GTD on RTM

web | Sunday, March 30th, 2008

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i’ve tried tons of online todo list managers. my current fav is Remember the Milk. it’s made by these 2 guys in australia, and it basically integrates with everything. there’s a plugin for quicksilver, it publishes to iCal, you can email it with your todos, and it every has a great iPhone interface.

perhaps most importantly, it has a really active community in their forums that help each other. this guy put together a great way of using RTM’s Smart Lists as a GTD system, and even made an easy-to-understand screencast. i just set up my RTM like his. exciting.

yeah that’s right…we rule

personal | Sunday, March 30th, 2008

our high school class has a website now – tzhs1988.com. it’s both hilarious and frightening at the same time. i honestly can’t remember most of the people (and i distinctly remember thinking, in my 20′s, that i could remember every detail of high school). our 20th reunion is coming up this fall! (not going)

i just saw this pic for the first time. it rulez.

left to right: me, danny goldenberg, paul henneman, joey forbes, matt henneman, and rob ryan. i’m in touch with all of them.

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baby wipes: good

personal | Friday, March 28th, 2008

howard’s been preaching it for years, but i just got around to actually trying it. it was…refreshing. oddly pleasant. i’m officially joining him in the movement to make them standard issue in all toilets.

get older → clean my ass with baby wipes. the irony isn’t lost on me.

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