Two Reasons to Quit the Rat Race
Reasons you should quit the rat race:
Reason #1: You are a human (duh).
Reason #2: Rats are icky.
Reasons you should quit the rat race:
Reason #1: You are a human (duh).
Reason #2: Rats are icky.
I needed to be reminded of this today.
Jeremiah 29:11 - I know the plans I have for you… designed by Kassandra Wright.
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
— Steve Jobs (via a-and-o)
I don’t use location or check-in services because the only people that care to know where I am already have my mobile number.
Thanks to Mark Gidman for pointing out this enlightening article about laundry detergent and absurd government regulations that derail innovation and damage businesses.
From Everything is Dirtier by Jeffrey A. Tucker:
“The difference wasn’t obvious at first. But as time has gone on, other changes began to take place, like the mandates for machines that use less water (as Mark Thornton writes about), along with mandates for tepid temperatures of water in our homes. In the end, the result is dramatic. It all amounts to dirty, yellowing clothes.
This is the exact opposite of what we expect in markets, in which products are ever better and cheaper due to innovation, expansion of the division of labor, and competition. But with government regulation, the results are deliberately the opposite. We pay ever-higher prices for shoddy results.”
And how does it happen? Slowly.
“Do we see what is happening here? I can detect very little in the way of public knowledge, much less outcry. In the old Cold War days, I recall wondering how it was that the Soviet people could have put up with state-caused impoverishment for decade after decade, and wondering why people didn’t just rise up and overthrow their impoverishers. Now I’m beginning to see why. If this all happens slowly and quietly, there is no point at which the reality of cause and effect dawns on people.”
Go read the whole article. Then go buy some trisodium phosphate (TSP) (note the review on it).
A week or two ago, I purchased Owl City’s latest album All Things Bright and Beautiful from the iTunes Music Store. A few days later, I received an email letting me know that I overpaid for the album and that they were giving me two iTunes Music Store credits. I appreciated the offer and made a mental note to look for some songs to purchase later. I checked and, sure enough, I had two credits showing.
While I was working later that night, I received that same email again and again. Before the night was over, I had received a total of four emails. Upon checking my iTunes account, I had a total of eight credits. Obviously, there was a bug or something going on so I contacted their customer service/support to let them know about it.
I didn’t want to keep getting credits I didn’t deserve and certainly didn’t want to take advantage of the situation. Mainly, I wanted to alert them to the issue in case there was a wide-spread issue with more accounts.
I kept receiving more emails and more credits while Apple’s iTunes support team took longer than their typical 24 hour turn response time to get back with me. About a day and a half after my message to them, they responded to my message about my eight credits. Apparently, they had an influx of emails that delayed their reply. They apologized and let me know that multiple customer service reps had refunded me the credits at the same time. I was told I could keep the eight credits.
While I appreciated getting to keep the eight credits, I had to respond as I had received more emails and credits before they could respond. In total, I had received a total of 14 emails and 28 credits.
I let them know about this and they escalated it to the next level of support. I was never annoyed or anything at all, but they kept apologizing for the inconvenience (I thought it was more inconvenient for them than it was for me).
When it was all said and done, they told me to keep the 28 credits. I was impressed that they were fine with me keeping seven times the amount I was due.
Now I just have to decide on what to buy with them.
Glad to see mine wasn’t on here, but I use passwords and passcodes that are personal to me.
Do not use a visual pattern for your passcode as those are easy to crack. After all, this is your personal data we’re talking about, not a game.
Quite possibly the most well-written, detailed Drupal module project page I’ve seen in a long time.
Nicely done. Now let’s see how well the module works. :)
What we’ve all been wondering about with our beloved code editor, TextMate. From the outside, TextMate’s development seems to have stalled out at least a couple of years ago. If you are like me, you’re wondering what to replace it with and when to make that jump.
I was thinking about making the jump to Sublime 2 ($59), but I could also go back to Smultron ($4.99 in Mac App Store) for a while. Sublime does have a lot of files to edit in place of traditional preference pane(s), but I like the split view capabilities and mini-view which shows all code, shrunk down, in the sidebar for navigating through it.
Smultron is light weight and fast. I still find myself using it to reference snippets I’ve saved over the years. We’ll see.
Anyway, Watts Martin provides a thoughtful read:
“Don’t write a text editor; you’re reinventing fire.” — Ben Straub
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been a TextMate user for the last few years, albeit increasingly reluctantly. TM has always been a mix of sheer brilliance and stone cold stupid, and while the former outweighs the latter,…
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