I did a 2008 recap with 2009 goals, and I thought it would be good to revisit those from last year, see where I progressed.
Lose more weight.  20 pounds lighter by January 2010.
How’d I do?  I fluctuated a lot, but I’m not down 20 pounds from last year.  I was down 15, but have gone [...]

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I’ve not seen any studies that indicate this, but I can say as a recent iPhone user, I’ve found myself changing some of my passwords to not include symbols or capitals or anything that isn’t convenient to type on the default virtual keyboard. Does anyone else do this? Has there been any research [...]

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I’m planning to move to using Opera as my main webmail client.  I do a lot in gmail, and to a lesser extent in yahoo mail and other webmail clients.  Firefox, as nice as it is, tends to hang quite a lot (not just with gmail – basically, all the time – 3.5 has not [...]

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I’ll be traveling the next 10 days, including time in London May 12-17 and Copenhagen May 18-20.  If any PHP or web people would like to get together for a drink/meal/chat/podcast/whatever, let me know.  I’m planning on attending one of the Dojo dinner activities (I think it’s Thursday May 14) so if you’re already going [...]

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Productivity has been one of those issues for me over the years that always seemed elusive.  This isn’t to say I never get anything done, but I always feel I could be doing better.  As some of my elementary school teachers used to write on my report card “Could do better”.   That always stung, because [...]

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Last year, I wrote a post about things I wanted to do in 2008.

Lose 30 pounds (I’d be fine with losing 10 this year, but close enough!)

I lost 10, then gained back 5. 

One blog post per week – I tend to do more than that, but occasionally slip for more than 7 days [...]

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I got ‘pinged’ by Ben Ramsey on this topic, so here goes:

First computer was Sinclair ZX81 – 1K of RAM – soldered together from a kit ordered from UK.
Played bass in a number of bands, including a blues band when I was 18 and next youngest guy was 37.  Played for several years with some [...]

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This Christmas is a little strange. My wife left me… to visit family in Australia, so I’m on my own. I don’t have any family around, so my prospects were going to be pretty solitary. I ended up making the decision to drive down to Florida to visit with my grandparents for [...]

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I just finished reading iWoz, Steve Wozniak’s autobiography. Great read, and it got me to rethinking about many things in my life – this blog being one of them. Actually, it was more some other events that got me initially rethinking, and the book helped shape the thinking process.
Woz is very open about [...]

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My wife recently recieved an email which, while poorly written, had enough information in it to potentially cause someone monitoring emails (if that really happens) to look twice and read on.
Long story short, my wife is originally from the UK.
OK – maybe not *that* short.
One of her friends there is having a fight with her [...]

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