Category: Personal
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The Big IDEA (Conference 2007)
I want to go to the IDEA Conference, which starts in two weeks here in New York. Conferences generally come in two categories. Conferences to meet people who do exactly what you do, and where you learn about how to do what you do better. Conferences to meet people you can do business with, and…
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42 Drawers (+12)
I just bought a pair of chests of tiny drawers — 54 in all. Believe me, I have enough stuff to put in these drawers. But here’s my question: How shall I organize them?
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Intelligence Loss
My father-in-law Donald F.B. “Jamie” Jameson passed away last week. He was — and forever will be — the center of my wife Peggy’s soul and, through her, a quietly influential part of my own life. Today’s Washington Post has a fascinating and moving obituary, focusing largely on his career in the CIA and his…
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My Second Race
I’m the skinhead in the red shirt. A year ago I entered my first bike race. It didn’t go well. Yesterday I entered my second race, and my first multi-sport race. It was a “duathlon” — running and bicycling — around Brooklyn’s lovely Prospect Park in the twilight hours of a perfect summer weekday. How…
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Back to Mac, Part 1: Why I am Leaving Windows and Getting a Mac
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As I was subtly hinting at in my last couple of posts, I have changed my Windowy ways. I have switched (back) to Mac. Finally. This is the first in an ad hoc series of articles documenting my experiences with this transition, looking at it from many perspectives: personal and cultural observations, usability and user…
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iPhone Microscopy
I bought a folding loup with 10x magnification recently, after reading that the iPhone works nicely with photo loups. I also have a decent microscope that I just realized also produces nice images simply by holding the iPhone up to the eyepiece. More to come, definitely.
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My Aging Fleet
I’m pretty well-known among my friends and peers to be a gadget geek. But over the last 5 years or so, my gadget-acquisition pace has crawled to a near standstill. Most of the electronic hardware gadgets I’ve been using lately are actually pretty ancient: Mobile Phone: 2002 iPod (3G): 2003 Canon PowerShot Digital Camera: 2003…
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My Summer Vacation
Peggy and I don’t take a lot of real vacations. But when we do go away, we try to do lots of stuff. Visiting my parents in Vermont and on Cape Cod last week, we did tons of fun things in what amounted to only four or five real days…
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The Manual: How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way
This book, “The Manual: How to Have a Number One Hit the Easy Way”, changed my life. It was written by Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty (aka The Timelords, aka The KLF) back in 1988, hot on the heels of their doing precisely what the title says: producing a number one hit in the UK,…