links for 2008-05-12
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A nifty tool that will tell you everything you wanted to know about your Windows machine and what is installed on it
links for 2008-04-22
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A nice website devoted to plugins for Quick Look in Mac OS X Leopard
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Another cool website with third party Quick Look plugins
links for 2008-04-18
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Some good advice about how to receive feedback on your performance
links for 2008-04-16
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A nice article that explains all the ways a file or folder can become invisible in Mac OS X.
Being Interested, Not Interesting
I was listening to a colleague talk today about a panel discussion he listened to where the topic of discussion was about how you get prospective employers to want to hire you. The main topic they kept circling back to was that for someone who is trying to land a job, it is more important that you look interested, rather than interesting. What they meant by that was that as someone who is interested, you are asking lots of questions and wanting to learn all you can about the job, the people, the company, etc. Someone who is interesting is simply someone who stands out. This might be because they have interesting hair or because they like cliff diving or some other weird thing. This by itself won’t necessarily land you the job.
As I thought about this statement, I would argue that you really need both. You need to be interesting so you stand out in your prospective employers mind AND you need to be interested, so they know you can think and want to learn about the job at hand.
Thoughts?
–Pete
Two Places
I was just listing to MacBreak Weekly, one of several podcasts I try to listen to each week. One of the regulars, a guy named Alex Lindsay, is the head guy over at the Pixel Corps. The group was discussing backup strategies and one of the things that Alex said as part of the discussion I think is a good rule to live by in this digital age. The rule is this: If the file doesn’t exist in two places, it doesn’t exist at all.
Learn this rule. Live this rule. Go make a backup of something.
–Pete
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Now powered by WordPress 2.5
I upgraded to a new version of WordPress — version 2.5. Pretty sweet so far. One thing that wasn’t sweet is that it completely broke my old theme. I’ve done some searching and found this new theme, called “Velocity”. Other than the default banner image in the header, I like the basic looks of this theme and I think this will be my new look. Now I have to create a new banner image. I think that’ll be a good project for later.
–Pete
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 8th through April 9th
These are my links for April 8th through April 9th:
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These are my links for April 8th:
- Your one source for Apple Boot Camp, Intel-based Macs, Intel Macs, Dual Booting, Using Microsoft Windows XP and Mac OSX, troubleshooting, playing video games on Mac OSX, Slipstreaming, Two Operating Systems, Gaming for Mac, and cross platform compatible –
- Boot Camp 2.0, Mac OS X 10.5: Frequently asked questions –
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 7th
These are my links for April 7th:
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- Bombich.com: Deploying a Dual-boot Macintosh – A nice article about how to deploy a dual-boot Intel Mac using tools like Bombich’s NetRestore
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Jackie’s a Star!
Jackie and I posing between performances.
Last weekend, my wife and I finally got our chance to perform in our church’s Easter production, a musical drama called Son of God, Son of Man. As I’ve said in previous posts, we were asked again this year to have our donkeys participate in the play, and our role would be to handle the animals while they were on stage. It doesn’t sound tough, until you look at the role that Jackie, our larger donkey was asked to perform. She was to be the donkey that Jesus Christ rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. This was a tall order, when you understand the magnitude of the production. She would be on stage with close to 100 people, under hot stage lights, a full orchestra playing music just off to her right, waving palms, people dancing, and a strange person on her back.
This is the crucifix scene from the show, to give you an idea of the scale of the production.
I was a little worried the day before the first performance. We had a “almost” dress rehearsal on Wednesday evening. We would run through the show without stopping and we’d all be in costume. The weather was gloomy. I had been in South Dakota all day for work. I rushed from the airport to get to rehearsal, and by the time I got there, we were already running behind. My friend Peggy, who was helping to handle Jackie on stage, was already there warming up with Jackie. As part of the warmup, we’d walk Jackie around and I would spend some time riding on her back, just as the actor who portrayed Jesus would do. I was getting a very bad vibe. Jackie was restless. She didn’t want to stand still. She lurched around when I was on her back, rather than moving smoothly. I just knew something wasn’t quite right. It came time for her performance. We took her back stage and she didn’t want to hold still. Dustin, the actor that plays Jesus came back to climb on her back for the big scene and every time he was about to step across from the mounting step to her back, she danced around and stepped out of reach. Finally, it was time for his big entrance, and he couldn’t get on Jackie’s back! So, we did the only thing we could think of. Jesus walked into Jerusalem with a perfectly good donkey walking behind him for that performance. Yikes!
The good news is that this performance was the anomoly. The next four performances, Jackie performed just like she was supposed to, with her final performance on Saturday evening being her best by far. Hallelujah!
Presentation Zen
Recently I heard about a cool blog called Presentation Zen, which is about presentation design. The author, Garr Renolyds, has also written a book by the same title. I was reading this post in his blog tonight, where he talked about how much he was floored by the presentation of Dr. Jill Bolte Tayler, a brain scientist, at the this year’s TED conference. It is 18 minutes long and well worth the 18 minutes you’ll spend. Like Garr, I was floored too. Her message is fascinating, touching, and timeless. You can watch it by clicking here.