Archive for January, 2009

Organic Vodka

January 30th, 2009 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in Nerd, Social

Picked up some organic vodka. We must for the children: carbon neutral and certified organic!

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Battery Indicator in Ubuntu in Virtualbox in OSX

January 29th, 2009 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in Nerd

This is funny, I thought to myself. The virtual image of Ubuntu I just installed shows a partially drained battery. Then I noticed that it’s the actual battery level…
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Merlin Mann: Towards Patterns for Creativity

January 28th, 2009 by James Sullivan | No Comments | Filed in Business, Nerd

I read 43folders until a year or two ago and I am a huge fan of GTD.  This video is a succinct motivational and informative explanation for those of us who feel like we could be getting more out of our organization systems and really just do more:

Specifically, there are two books here which have made it onto my reading list due to Merlin’s recommendation: On Writing by Stephen King
and The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp.

Test From iPhone

January 28th, 2009 by James Sullivan | 1 Comment | Filed in Social

Does this actually work?

Fresh Wordpress Setup

January 28th, 2009 by James Sullivan | 1 Comment | Filed in Social

The first blog post always sounds awkward and pretentious.  For me, the best part is that they usually exclaim how they’ll post every day for a year and first one is the only post published. Here is my summary of every blog’s first post:

  • Oh my god.  This crazy thing happened this week and I haven’t told enough people!  Hey internet, listen to this!
  • Oh, hi, this is my first blog post and I’m going to talk about me… and stuff… vague… stuff…
  • This is my first blog post!  Yay, I installed my blog software.

Until there’s relevant textual material for consumption, I give you this grand vision:

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    Here you can provide some author or blog infomation.