It seems to me that before we can heal we have to be sick. And I think we get stuck in this state of limbo between health and sickness. We know something’s wrong… we’ve hurt ourselves, or someone has hurt us, and we’re focused on how we want to be. All we can see is [...]
Archive for February, 2008
PRAISE JESUS!
22Feb08Google has finally made Gmail search not suck!
If you’re a Gmail user, you’ve almost certainly had the sense that you were searching for an email that you know is in your archive, yet searches for words you KNOW for a FACT are in the email turn up empty.
It turns out that Gmail search got hopelessly [...]
Time machine
13Feb08This morning I got a message from my past. I sent it on November 6th using a web site called FutureMe, which lets you send messages to your future you. I requested delivery for today, February 13th, 2008.
Here’s the message:
Dear FutureMe,
read this and post about it:
http://www.alternet.org/sex/47666/
And so that’s what I’m doing. It’s appropriate for today, [...]
Getting Things Done
08Feb08I had an insight the other day about procrastination. It’s a twofer:
Truth A: I should never, ever, ever put anything off.
Truth B: There is nothing that cannot be set in motion this second.
“Putting something off” basically means ignoring it and hoping it will work out the next time it pops into your life. [...]
What goals, whose goals?
06Feb08I’ve been thinking today about goals. Not life goals, but design goals. If you’re building a piece of software or a home or a device, what are your goals?
I saw a presentation today about some information visualization tools, and there were two goals talked about for a visualization:
USABILITY
and
UNDERSTANDABILITY
But I started to think: what kind of [...]
What I’m doing
04Feb08I posted recently about how my blog seems to tend towards the negative. This is one of the reasons why my parents are continually worried about my happiness, despite the fact that I think I’m as happy or happier than I’ve ever been. I’ve also talked with my mom about how she doesn’t really get [...]
February is Black History Month
03Feb08Find out what’s happening in your community. I already stupidly missed the entire San Diego Black Film Festival. Here’s a list of events for San Diego.
