Jun 18 2006

Screw it, Let’s Do It.

dastels @ 3:48 am
I just read this fabulous little book: Screw It, Let’s Do It: Lessons in Life by Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Music, Virgin Airlines, etc.

The book is low price, short, easy to read, and packing with good advice. More encouraging than enlightening, but that’s never a bad thing.

From the Amazon page: Global entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson has built a business empire and made billions, yet is renowned for his approachability, ability to challenge and succeed against the odds. Screw It, Let’s Do It reveals the lessons from life that have helped him through his business and personal life such as, believe it can be done and that, if others disagree with you, try and try again until you achieve your goal; or that you must love what you do. These and other lessons, with examples of how he learned them and how he’s used them, are included in this stirring and candid look at his lessons from an exceptional life, which will inspire you to make a difference in your own life.

Jun 18 2006

Cool screensaver

dastels @ 3:21 am

If you’re a fan of Leonardo da Vinci or The Davinci Code… (and run OS X) check out this screensaver.

Jun 10 2006

My Girlfriend’s a Geek part 4

dastels @ 1:35 am

Tuesday morning my laptop died.. no not my Powerbook.. that would have completely unexpected… the Windows ThinkPad I use for my current client… courtesy of said client. It just wouldn’t boot. Something about an unmountable drive.. bluescreen but it didn’t stay in place long enough to read before it valiantly, yet futilely, tried to boot again.

Not good. I wasn’t heading back to Chicago & the client for almost a week. Was I dead in the water? Could I not work for the week?

Well.. Nancy to the rescue! It took most of the day, but she eventually found some bad sectors, blocked them out, etc and got the thing to boot again. No data loss.. nothing acting odd. It’s been behaving itself all week so far.

Jun 05 2006

Settler’s becoming a routine

dastels @ 4:44 am

As you know if you’ve been following my blog, we’ve recently started playing Settlers of Catan. The other day Nancy picked up the expansion so we can play up to 6 players now.

Since picking up the 2 player rules, Nancy & I have made it a nightly routine to play a couple games. Here’s our gaming “corner” in the office:

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Jun 05 2006

My Girlfriend’s a Geek part 3

dastels @ 4:36 am

So we had 4G iPod cradles from my earlier iPod (one came with the iPod, then I got a stereo connect kit). So when we got 5G iPods they sort of fit.. then we got hardshell cases to prevent scratching.. and the cradles no longer fit.

Not to be defeated by this, nancy just spent the evening sawing, Dremeling, and carving to make the necessary adjustments (aka hacks) to the cradles to make them fit once more.

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She took some pics and expect she’ll be blogging about the process.