- “…the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking.” - Steve Jobs (quote from Quotiki)
- I just ordered our EVO Experience tickets for Steve Vai’s stop in Chicago in September. Now I’m jazzed! This will be the second EVO Experience that Jonna and I have attended.
- One of my 2007 goals is to try to keep my All Consuming page up to date. I read a lot (though I tend to jump between books unless I find something really engaging) and want to keep record of where I am. I spent some time this morning updating my “should list“, if your interested in seeing it.
- Jonna and I spent a relaxing four days in Vegas, and then a good deal of today getting our pictures up to our Flickr accounts. Each of us took a camera on this vacation. There’s a bigger post coming, but hey - I’m on vacation. Here are the links: Ron’s Photos and Jonna’s Photos.
- Check out this awesome video posted on the 37 signals web site last Tuesday. I’ve always enjoyed Tarantinos dialog, but this adds a whole other dimension to it.
- I found this really cool regular expression widget for the Mac Dashboard. It allows you to test regular expressions against text - and puts it right at your fingertips. Nice!
- Found these Apple UK commercials via Slashdot. I found them quite amusing, especially the vacation one.
- Interesting article I found via slashdot called The Twilight Years of Cap’n Crunch in the Wall Street Journal. The article details the current whereabouts of John Draper, who gained fame for his hacking skills as a “phone phreak”.
- Before people start pegging me as someone who only sees the positive in Starbucks as of late, it is worth mentioning that a new site, Hows That Job?, has Starbucks listed in the Bottom 5 companies. Now, the site only has 45 reviews right now (in total - with only one for Starbucks) - but it is an opposite point of view. This reviewer also qualifies the rating, saying that it was the customers that made it terrible.
- A great post by Ed Gibbs entitled “Wasting Money on Expensive Enterprise Tools”. Its shocking sometimes how much money is spent on things just because they have the word “enterprise” in their description. Anyone in IT will smile to themselves when reading this post.
- Earlier this week I reviewed a book on Starbucks. Most of these books you get the “rosy view” of the world. I found this article today and was riveted by the comment thread that includes contributions by many Starbucks employees. Looks like Starbucks is, in many respects, like any other company. The thread is absolutely fascinating and worth spending the time to read every entry.
- Jonna pointed me to Chumby, an open source alarm clock. According to the article, the clock will run for $150 and because of its open source nature, will have an “array of downloadable, hackable widgets”.
- A really interesting article describing project dynamics around the Windows Vista Shutdown menu. I found this on Slashdot.
- Well, all of the rumor talk can stop. TechCrunch reports today that Google has officially acquired YouTube. Google also has an announcement on their Press Center, in which they say that the acquisition is for $1.65B in stock.
