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Seth’s Blog: You rock

…Five minutes a day you might defeat the lizard brain long enough to stand up and make a difference.
And five minutes of rocking would be enough, because it would be five minutes more than just about anyone else.
via Seth’s Blog: You rock.

iPad

So a lot of  people who actually think about what they are writing (Gruber, Ihnatko, Heilemann, Croft, Fry) had similar things to say about the iPad:
FAST.
and
It’s just the best piece of glass you can buy, with an awesome framework/UI/store behind it.
To me, there are obvious verticals (medical) that this will shine in, but the best [...]

Play on, playuh.

IMGP6570, originally uploaded by Vlad Olic.

My older son, Cooper, being tended to by his friends Natalie and Lauren.
OMG he is so money he doesn’t even know it.

Windows Antivirus/Internet Security

Norton used to do a good job but slow your system down a bunch. They worked on performance lately, however, it is kind of like a protection racket – you always have to be up to date and paying the policeman.
Two free ones that do a very good job that a lot of people recommend:
AVG [...]

Google Accounts

Dear Google,
Please allow me to merge my accounts. I seem to have 3, and together they make one giant clusterf***. I have my original gmail account. Then I got Google Apps For Your Domain, which has everything all laid out nicely connected to emmott.com. But then, since that doesn’t seem to fly for many of [...]

Perfect Pitch (or, the DMCA *sucks*)

A link to a website gets more search juice than the website itself. The website owner files a DMCA takedown, and the linking site gets removed from google results. Um, *wow* that’s BS.
Adactio: Journal—Perfect Pitch.

Spaces Harder to Use in Snow Leopard

Spaces should work like it did in Leopard regarding trigger button operation.
Spaces in 10.5 worked like this:
Press one key or mouse button to trigger spaces to come up, see multiple screen view.
Move mouse to space you want selected.
Press the *same* trigger key/button, *or* press the left mouse button. Selected Space becomes the active one, zooms [...]

“What’s the point?” Been asking mysel…

“What’s the point?” Been asking myself that a lot lately. Getting good answers, not to worry, just finding myself not doing things in line with them.

Flipping URLs

Ugh. OK, so the idea is, kevan.emmott.com is the blog, kevan.emmott.net has miscellaneous things…

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