New web app from values of n (Stikkit). Billed a a free e-mail assistant. It has my interest peaked.
Remainders 03.23.2007
The folks who brought you Stikkit have a new web app coming. This one is a personal assistant of some sort for e-mail called iwantsandy. Details are a little schetchy for now (not yet released) but it peaks my interest.
Richard Rutter and Mark Boulton want you to know that Web Typography Sucks and what you can do to change that. Yes, that’s right… You. Download the slides with notes and find out how. (via Kottke)
Lifehack.org has this enticing proposition, clone yourself by hiring a part time personal assistant. They posit that, if you use a little outside of the box thinking, it is not as expensive as one might think.
12 ways to pimp your office
There are some really cool product suggestions here but also good for out-of-the-box ideas to help you think beyond a simple desk and chair.
Doorway in the Alhambra: In Granada, Spain. This place was breath takingly beautiful.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson
Ronda over the gorge.: Taken in Ronda, Spain
How bad is US Airways?
Me: US Airways is so bad that they make Northwest Airlines look like Southwest Airlines.
Joann: That’s pretty bad.
rsync+hfsmode
“rsync+hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS+ resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem.” – I may also need this for the big backup project I have planed.
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Donald Rumsfeld in a 2002 Security Briefing
The Overboard
Very nice cutting board available in custom sizes. I am redoing my kitchen in one of my houses and there is a space for a board. May see about getting one of these.