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Mind Mapping With XMind

I’ve been dabbling in mind mapping programs again.  In the past year several new mind mapping tools have appeared.  XMind recently caught my fancy.  XMind is eclipse based and is more polished and professional looking compared to Freemind.  I’ve been… Continue Reading →

Baby Goats

In addition to chickens and bees, our friends are raising goats.  The little guys jumping around in the clip below are only 3 days old!  I was completely taken by their energy and zeal–amazed that something so young could be… Continue Reading →

Bees

This is the honey dispenser at a local grocery store.  It cracks me up every time I see it.  It reminds me of a gag gift my father had when I was young called “The Invisible Shark.”  It was a… Continue Reading →

Five Recent Resonations

I Don’t Feel Like it by Seth Godin–I recently had the same thought.  You can kill a couple of hours starting your day in search of the right feeling or you can force yourself to jump in and start working… Continue Reading →

Stop Firefox From Stealing Focus

When Ubuntu 10.4 was released I used it as my primary desktop for a week before alternating between it and Fedora.  The polish and finish of the desktop experience is subtle in some places and  noticeable in others–with the exception of the… Continue Reading →

Respecting Time and Attention

I love the beauty and rebound affect of sharing information.  I posted about Merlin Mann’s talk at Rutgers and James remind me that I had given him the idea of keeping separate question lists for different people a long time… Continue Reading →

Time and Attention

In a previous post I talked about using time.  It is a topic I think about a lot because it often feels in short supply.  I know a good part of this is my own doing.  I value a lot of things… Continue Reading →

Time, Netflix, Drifting and Coffee

Cable TV is a waste of money to me. I don’t have time for it and other things are more important. I can’t bring myself to pay $70+ dollars a month for content I wouldn’t would watch very much and… Continue Reading →

Fedora 13 End Game Part 2

Paul has already eloquently noted that the release date of Fedora 13 has changed to May 25, 2010. This was disappointing after the AMAZING effort that went into meeting the original challenge–addressing all of the outstanding blocker bugs by May… Continue Reading →

Not To Do List

Here is something I landed on a few months ago.  I can’t remember where I first heard the idea. Every day I start with a list of things I need to do.  I’ve also started a list of things I… Continue Reading →

Fedora 13 End Game

Like many of the releases before, the end of Fedora 13 is sneaking up on us.  Huge thanks to James Laska, Adam Williamson, Jesse Keating, and others who have gathered for several Fridays to beat down the blocker bug lists. … Continue Reading →

Good Daily Rituals

I love this quote from Peter Berman’s post titled An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day, Yesterday started with the best of intentions. I walked into my office in the morning with a vague sense of what I wanted to… Continue Reading →

Monty Python Does The Fedora Development List

I can’t watch the sketch below without thinking about some of the Fedora mailing list threads that make me want to poke one of my eyes out.  If you listen closely I think they might be talking about package updates… Continue Reading →

Fedora 12 USB Headset Volume Too Low

About a month ago I was out of town and went to make a phone call using Twinkle and my Logitech USB headset.  The volume was so faint I could barely hear the person on the other end. A few… Continue Reading →

Fedora Board Voting Guide

No, I’m not going to tell you who to nominate or who to vote for.  I do have some ideas on what makes a good board member and what Fedora needs to secure its future based on my own observations… Continue Reading →

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