Chris
Make Your MacBook Pro Scream
I have a late 2008 15″ MacBook Pro – the first of the unibody models. It’s got 4GB RAM, and it’s an amazing machine. But like anything I’ve had for more than a year, it’s starting to feel a little slower than I remember. A fresh installation of Leopard always helps, and although defragging hard [...]
How to Win More Money in the Lottery
First thing’s first. Don’t play the lottery. It’s a tax on people who are bad at math. Spend your money on something else that brightens your day, or put it in a savings account and go on a vacation every few years on what you will save. However – if you feel pressured into joining an [...]
Burned Out? Try this.
I’m always torn between reading a book about a new technology that could potentially further my career and a book about something totally cool and fascinating, but unrelated to my field. There are many times when I find a book that satisfies both criteria, like some of the books I’ve read on cryptography (The Code Book, by Simon Singh is fantastic), but often, the books I’m interested in reading have nothing to do with my field.
This is Completely Off-Topic
This has nothing to do with programming, ColdFusion, JavaScript, or things nerdy. It’s far more important that that.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
That’s the “seven word summary” of the book, In Defence of Food by Michael Pollan, and it should be required reading for all people who eat. It’s a relatively quick [...]