Keeping a watchful eye on her territory
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Keeping a watchful eye on her territory
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Monthly Archives: May 2013
Just hanging out in the shade on a warm spring afternoon
Just hanging out in the shade on a warm spring afternoon
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One freshly bathed dog that really doesn't like water
One freshly bathed dog that really doesn't like water
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Spotted a bunny sitting under the lilac this morning
In album Bunny under the lilac
Judging by the left ear, it looks like this little guy had an unfriendly encounter with some other critter
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We're in that ever so brief window when these guys bloom 2
We're in that ever so brief window when these guys bloom
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Tesla Motors has hired Chris Porritt away from +Aston Martin to lead its engineering…
Tesla Motors has hired Chris Porritt away from +Aston Martin to lead its engineering efforts
Assuming that Porritt can get along with +Elon Musk he should probably be a pretty good fit for +Tesla Motors. I interviewed him at length at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show when he was leading the development of Aston's One-77 supercar and this is the sort of engineering that Tesla would certainly go for.
Aston Martin One-77 Uncovered: In-depth on what’s under the skin
Aston Martin One-77 internals – Click above for high-res galleryAt the Geneva Motor Show this week, Aston Martin publicly showed its limited-edition
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I want this game:)
I want this game:)
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the rains of the past week left the grass a little longer than usual 1
the rains of the past week left the grass a little longer than usual
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The internet is neither the root of our ills or a panacea, it's just another…
The internet is neither the root of our ills or a panacea, it's just another medium for communicating
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I found this touching and disturbing. Worth repeating: “The Internet is where people are.”
I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet
I was wrong. One year ago I left the internet. I thought it was making me unproductive. I thought it lacked meaning. I thought it was “corrupting my soul.” It’s a been a year now since I…
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I love having instant acces to my calendar, but there is definitely room for imp…
I love having instant acces to my calendar, but there is definitely room for improvement
+Macworld"s +Jason Snell makes some excellent points about ways the electronic calendars could serve us better. Back in the early 1990s when I got first engineering job after college among the first things they gave me was a Franklin planner.
Unfortunately, (or not) I was not a good Franklin user and often missed stuff because I didn't obsessively record everything I did and check my calendar. Without something to remind me where I needed to be, I'd still miss meetings and appointments. Only when I migrated to a Palm III many years later did calendars really start to work for me.
While people today complain about everyone constantly checking their phones, at least you can get by putting down a phone and only looking at it when you get a notification. Using a Franklin successfully required constant obsessive checking and recording.
All that said, Google Now has made great progress in knowing where I am and where I need to be, giving me notifications about when to leave (at last as long as calendar events have sufficient details about location). Incorporating travel time and automatically rejecting events based on that would be outstanding.
Why aren’t digital calendars smarter?
I use Google Calendar, Apple’s Calendar app, and Fantastical to manage my schedule. In general, my calendaring is in the best shape it’s ever been in: My colleagues can see my free and busy times, and…
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