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I’ve been reading in my sick bed, and stumbled over this sentence in The Professional Chef’s Knife Kit from the CIA:

As with writing, your primary goal is to be as accurate and precise as possible, ev…

I wanted to share how I’m doing backups, something I learned from Anders Pollas. The solution involves two external hard drives, and SuperDuper!, a disk cloning software.

I have created partitions larg…

With my Thinkpad, of course, I could have replaced the hard drive myself and saved the 1760 kr. ($280).

This brought a smile to my face. When I lived in New York working for ArsDigita, the company headquarters were in Cambridge and it was always a struggle to find good places to eat and drink, because w…

Hard drives are fragile things that can easily break. And mine did so yesterday. A few months ago it started to make funny sounds when I moved the laptop around while it was on—you could hear the plat…

Dave Winer discovers Guy Kawasaki’s new blog. Subcribed? Me too.

I read his book Art of the Start, and it is one of the best and most practical startup books I’ve read. I’d love to hear him speak when…

Happy new year. Today marks one year since I quit smoking. Wohoo!

And no, it wasn’t a resolution, it just happened that way. I’m celebrating by being sick in bed, and not from drinking. What a way to s…

I picked up a copy of Designing Visual Interfaces on Jason Fried’s recommendation, and despite the fact that it’s about desktop software, not web software, it is really the best interface design book …

I bought my admission ticket for the Carson Workshops Summit, but not the plane ticket yet. Who else is coming? Want to catch the same flight if you’re flying from Copenhagen?

I have a project where I need to create output in HTML, plaintext, Word doc, RTF, and PDF formats. The Word doc options seems particularly annoying.

A clean solution would be something that allowed the…