February 2012
5 posts
Wifi on Emirate A380, LHR-DXB
$0.5 per MB if on your mobile or $0.7 per MB on laptop - I detect a browser spoof coming!
“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”
– - Lucius Annaeus Seneca - On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca
January 2012
3 posts
30 Lessons for Living Well - NYTimes →
Wisdom about how to live well from a Cornell study which interviewed 1,000 elderly people from varied backgrounds.
Unlimited Water-Based Gadget Power via Fuel Cells →
You’re on the road, far from any outlet and your precious cell-phone is thisclose to running out of juice. You look around and the nearest thing to you is a dirt road and—wait, what’s that? A little babbling brook. You’re saved!
“Q: What’s worse than biting into an apple and finding a worm?
A: Biting...”
– For more information: Food for Thought: Paul Rozin’s Research
December 2011
5 posts
“What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it...”
– Saint Augustine
FYI: 2.7 billion people live on under $2 per day
49,345 people (majority children) die every day in developing countries of preventable diseases and starvation.
November 2011
12 posts
How philosophers greet each other: "Hello, why are...
“The only true voyage would be not to visit strange lands, but to possess other...”
– Marcel Proust
“What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts...”
– Buddha
“The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.”
– Marcus Aurelius
Confabulation: remembering false memories →
Confabulation is the process in which a memory is remembered falsely. Confabulations are indicative of a complicated and intricate process that can be led astray at any given point during encoding, storage, or recall of a memory. Two distinct types of confabulation are often distinguished. Spontaneous, or primary, confabulations do not occur in response to a cue and seem to be involuntary....
“If you think you can, or think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford
loved Quantum Levitation on Boxee →
loved 2011 Honda Unveils All new ASIMO -... →
this is sales →
“People don’t read ads, they read what interests them. Sometimes it’s...”
– Howard Gossage
October 2011
6 posts
“In theory there’s no difference between theory and practice, but in...”
– Yogi Berra
New blog post on becoming the prize in sales... →
New blog post: Business Model Generation: A... →
September 2011
4 posts
Watch in full HD - LA Light By Colin Rich - music... →
August 2011
9 posts
Be Lucky, It's an Easy Skill to Learn →
Those who think they’re unlucky should change their outlook and discover how to generate good fortune, says Richard Wiseman
Cutting Edge Tech Slated for Next Mars Rover... →
NASA is pushing the boundaries of technology as it readies its next mission to Mars, loading up its fourth Mars Rover with nearly a dozen instruments and employing an innovative but risky landing procedure.
Scientists and engineers were piecing together some of the final components to the new rover, dubbed Curiosity, on Saturday as it ramps up for a high-stakes launch in November.
The...
WatchSax on the beach
July 2011
8 posts
How to Watch a Movie →
“When cinema was invented, it was initially used to record life, like an extension of photography. It became an art when it moved away from the documentary. It was at this point that it was acknowledged as no longer a means of mirroring life, but a medium by which to intensify it.” – François Truffaut
WatchJazz at Ealing
First funny thing about OS X Lion - scrolling on the mouse & trackpad has been inverted. What used to scroll you down now scrolls you up!
OS X Lion in a nutshell, after 17 in depth pages...
Over the past decade, better technology has simply reduced the number of things that we need to care about. Lion is better technology. It marks the point where Mac OS X releases stop being defined by what’s been added. From now on, Mac OS X should be judged by what’s been removed.
Dropbox Lied to Users About Data Security,... →
Naughty Dropbox! *spank*
OS X Lion app management antics...
As if all of this isn’t enough, Lion features one final application management twist. When an application is terminated in Lion, all the usual things appear to happen. If the running application indicator is enabled, the small dot will disappear from beneath the application’s Dock icon. Assuming it’s not a permanent resident, the application icon will disappear from the Dock. The...