.: Above The Aether :.

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Do people actually buy this stuff?
-Dave

Having come to the end of our current cell phone contract, Justine and I picked up a pair of Blackberry Curves to check our email, blog, take pictures, etc. My first impressions of the Blackberry Curve is that it does the following things very well: phone, email, mobile maps, calendar, tasks, contacts.
It does the [...]

I will be attending the Maker Faire in Austin, TX later this month.  I’m most excited by the catapult competition as well as the vast concentration of nerdery that will no doubt overpower my senses with bad science jokes.
I plan on taking my laptop and camera so I can post some photos of the faire [...]

You’ve just won a servant to do ONE household chore for you for free for the rest of your life.
What do you choose? (post your comment below)
I’m leaning toward laundry or bartender.
-Dave

A gym in Hong Kong has come up with a brilliant idea.  Hook up all those treadmills, stairmasters and bicycles to generators and store all of that “free” energy that people are creating in the gym to help power the building.
Link to Treehugger article.
“Mr Chang, can you please pick up the pace?  The people [...]

I’m not sure this will be interesting to anyone, but I felt compelled to describe my love-hate relationship with email as a form of communication in the workplace.
I hate email.
You see, I get around 300-500 emails every day at work.
About a third of these are generated by automated server processes and are filtered into folders [...]

Here is an interesting blog post from Zen Habits. Not sure I agree with everything on the list, but a lot of them make sense. I happen to clash with large gaping sections, especially “lose weight” and “rise early.”  Wasn’t Buddha fat…er jolly?
Read the post here.
-Dave

What’s that line about the one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest? Or was it the long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs? Regardless of the cheesy analogy, I’ve been slammed at work over the past few days. My boss is out of town and so is one of my designers.
Funny [...]

It’s dawned on me that I can’t possibly keep up with all the RSS feeds in my Google Reader. I subscribe to 192 feeds. The refresh rate on them varies from multiple times a day (Lifehacker=16 posts per day) to maybe once a month. My account looks like someone shoved a grenade [...]