So It seems I have a new friend, which was a present from a special someone. I like new friends. I like penguins. I love Linux. And by the looks of this one, it seems that he’s into extreme programming. And now a challenge: How many penguins can you see [...]
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Web Development Workflow
Lately I’ve been working on some web projects, nothing major, one of which is the template for this blog. One thing that always bugs me is the workflow for web development. What is the best workflow for such projects, that require server side testing ? How to develop a WordPress [...]
Now OpenID enabled
I just added enabled the OpenID WordPress plugin to my blog, so you can now post all your comments using your OpenID if you have it. Fair to say I like having an OpenID enabled blog, but I’m not that happy with the plugin, since it mashes together two separate [...]
Top Ten
My top ten looks like this: $ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head 161 ls 85 cd 46 vim 33 make 28 clear 21 ll 16 rm 15 svn 14 sudo 10 touch What does your top ten look like ?
Standards
After 33 HTML errors and 3 css errors i got this: It’s always nice to conform to standards. But if it’s fake standards, then why bother ?
Ubuntu Hardy Heron Beta
Yesterday, after reading about the release of Hardy Heron beta release ( announcement), I decided to try out the iso torrent download to see how fast it would be, as compared to a normal http download. I have to say I was extremely happy after seeing it pushing my network [...]
New Theme – The DigitalSelf Redesign
I blogged a couple of months ago, way back in 2007 as it seems, that a new wordpress all original theme was in the pipe. Once again my need to GTD is overwhelmingly demonstrated. After completed the bulk design, the theme fell through the cracks of my ToDo lists, so [...]
Anti-Procrastination Tips
After starting to getting things done, I noticed that I still procrastinate. Procrastination is evil. There should be religions around Anti-Procrastination, gathering in cults and praying to keep procrastination at bay. With this in mind I’ve picked up a few tips, here and there, that help me to avoid procrastination: [...]
Going GTD
I’ve recently read the famous book by David Allen, Getting Things Done. I have to say that it was very good reading which I enjoyed thoroughly and really has motivated me on Going GTD. In spite of some things being common sense, you get the Columbus Egg feeling wanting to [...]
Terrarium 1.0 – The House of Gimli
For those of you who don’t know, I have a (about) three year old male iguana, called Gimli. That’s him below, shedding his skin. He’s still greenish and seems to be staying that way in the future, except when he’s in heat, where he takes on an orange groovy look. [...]