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I’ll fully admit, I may be one of the few people that doesn’t watch Glee. I may catch clips from time to time, but never on a regular basis.
So with that baseline set…here’s something that I’ve noticed recently. iTunes has definitely started pushing more of the cast albums at me in their weekly “what’s new” marketing emails. Here’s the thing about the Glee cast versions of songs…when listening to the sample track, it doesn’t get me to buy the song. Instead, it makes me search to find the original song because their cover reminds me of how awesome the original version was.
Does this happen to anyone else?
Interruptions
In: Tips & Tricks
11 May 2010How often are you interrupted during the day? Do you have the new email notifier turned on? How often is that thing going off? How often are you seeing IMs coming in, both personal and professional? Twitter? facebook? Yup, those too are major enemies to productivity.
You may not have it that bad. Your company may lock down some of the social media services which eliminates a lot of the distractions. For many of us out there we are getting bombarded by interruptions. And as a programmer, it is horrible for productivity.
I think Jason Fried from 37Signals has summed it up best in this snippet from his BigThink interview.
So do yourself a favor, turn off your IM, your email etc. Avoid tapping your co-worker on the shoulder when an email will work out just as well. And get back to getting stuff done!
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Coming soon!
In: Site News
3 May 2010You know you have been slacking on your blog posts when you have 15 posts in the drafts folder.
More posts coming soon…promise!
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Priorities
In: Rants|Tips & Tricks
19 Mar 2010If it is important enough to you, you will find a way. If it is not, you will find an excuse.
-Unknown
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News
In: In the news
8 Mar 2010If you follow me on twitter (@usrlocal) or facebook you probably already know this little bit of news. But here it is anyway…
My wife and I are please to announce that we will be expanding our family this year. We’re expecting our first towards the end of September. Needless to say, we’re pretty excited about it.
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Cryptogram #1 – Solution
In: DevDog
17 Feb 2010So, its been a few days, did you figure out the solution to our first cryptogram?
This one I thought was pretty easy if you are a geek. And seeing as my blog is pretty tech related, I figured that a lot of people would get this one. Maybe its just me, but when I see certain encoded lines, I can pretty much guess that they are encoded with base64. Maybe I’ve been around email too long.
So if you took our fabulous line and pasted it into any one of a million base64 decoders out there, you would get the following:
With faith and hope, the dream begins anew
It was also a somewhat recent facebook status of mine. The new cryptogram will be coming out in a few days. Stay tuned!
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Cryptogram #1
In: DevDog
12 Feb 2010So I’m experimenting with a little contest to see how smart my 3 readers actually are. Every couple of weeks I’m going to post a puzzle. They’ll be pretty easy to start off with and get increasingly more difficult as time goes by and I have time.
Without further ado, here is the first cryptogram.
V2l0aCBmYWl0aCBhbmQgaG9wZSwgdGhlIGRyZWFtIGJlZ2lucyBhbmV3
Good luck!
For each cryptogram, the solution will be posted the following Monday.
Update: Answers are posted on Wednesday, not Mondays.
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Buckle Up
In: Cool Videos
6 Feb 2010Important message, well done video!
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