By Kit | October 22, 2009
Note: I am sure that I am going to stir up a shit storm with this, but it is more of an observation and a bit of a question than a complaint.
Weightwatchers.com has a feature in their meal tracker that allows customers to track important metrics each day – things like taking a vitamin, drinking [...]
By Kit | September 8, 2008
Merlin Mann weblebrity of a variety of sorts, has outright stated something on his Tumblelog Kung Fu Grippe that it seems he has been bumping up against for some time and captures a feeling that I have had for a while now as well.
With this diet metaphor in mind, I want to, if you like, [...]
Also posted in Productivity |
Something strange happened today, and it seemed noteworthy so I relate it here. I have begun bringing my lunch to work (save money, eat better, blah bitty blah blah) and my vessel of choice is Mr. Bento.
Mr. Bento is a tremendous modern (and Japanese!) replacement for the lunchbox: a bullet shaped container with four sub-containers [...]
Apple’s new MobileMe service has come under a lot of fire since it’s launch and has encountered a number of severe difficulties involving uptime, faux push functionality, and lost customer emails. The whole thing has seemed quite un-apple like. I by no means have the intention of piling on, but I am going to [...]
The culinary industry seems to have been slow to embrace the web. While there are a number of notable food bloggers and loads of great recipe sites (a handful of great technique driven sites have been cropping of late as well thanks to the proliferation of video tools), the retail side of things seems to [...]
Also posted in Cooking, Gadgets |
The folks at 37Signals look at things differently. Most of the time it works, too. Their products approach activities like project management from a totally different angle. They favor fewer features and super-simple usability over appeasing the slack-jawed masses. Their book Getting Real, has become the user manual for a new way of [...]
It seems it is becoming increasingly important that you build an online persona for yourself and claim your place in various social networking venues and other sites where you can put your personal stamp. This is particularly true if you work in the tech and web industry, where a degree of Internet savvy and [...]
So blah bitty blah blah, I wanted to see what celebrities I look like and MyHeritage has a nifty little tool for this. In a move about which I am none to pleased, the require you to register in order to see your look alikes. As I mentioned previously, I have an email [...]
I recently installed Flock on my Ubuntu box and have run into more problems than I would care to. First and foremost, it is a pain to install, requiring you to work from the command line. N ow I am no stranger to bash, but I generally do not use it in Ubuntu [...]
Michael Arrington has a post today at TechCrunch on how Mozilla is integrating social networking into Firefox and how it is bad news for Flock. Being a die hard fan of Flock, this raised some concerns for me. However, looking at the new Coop product, I think that it misses the mark for [...]
