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RSS Feeds Moving!

I am going to be moving this sites RSS feeds away from FeedBurner this weekend.  Mostly because I want per topic feeds and I have not yet found a FeedBurner plug-in for WordPress that supports that.
Consider yourself warned if you are using an RSS reader!

Myth of the Genius Programmer

From the Google I/O 2009 conference:
“A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and [...]

New look for new posts

You may have noticed that I’ve changed the visual theme for this blog to something more minimalist. I have also removed most of the widgets, which I am going to replace with some plain old links to me on other sites.
I did this in preparation for getting my act and starting writing again, [...]

Window Managment on Large Monitors

I have had a 24″ monitor at work for a while and recently bought myself a 24″ for use as a second monitor on my 17″ iMac at home.  I really enjoy the extra screen real estate that a large monitor with a resolution of 1920×1200 provides.  However most applications don’t really make good use [...]

Habits

Habits and habit forming can be an interesting aspect of human behavior: they seem to fall in to two broad categories in my mind.  Habits are either hard to start and maintain until critical mass is achieved and after that can still require conscious maintenance to maintain. Or habits are easy to start but risk [...]