Immersion Blending Wine
Tim Ferris (of the The 4-Hour Work Week fame), has got a post out on “Hyper-decanting” wine to “age” it very quickly.
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Unique, Secure, Memorable Passwords
An easy way to generate a unique, memorable but secure password for each website or service you visit is to apply the following recipe:
Negotiation
I’ve been listening to Slate’s Negotiation Podcasts, which I think are excellent. There are currently 7 episodes (although more are on their way), each about 10-15 minutes in length. Below are my notes summarising what I’ve learned:
Getting iTunes to recognise tracks as belonging to one Album
I have just been importing some music into iTunes from an external drive. Sometimes iTunes doesn’t recognise songs as belonging to the same album, even if they have the same Album name. (Bad iTunes!)
The Five Tibetans
This morning I was researching a fast yoga workout when I came across the Five Tibetan Rites. These exercises supposedly came from a retired British Army Colonel who was stationed in Tibet, and written up in the book “The Eye of Revelation” by Peter Kelder in 1939. Apparently the colonel stayed at a monastery populated [...]
I've been liking this thing lately:
http://nerdfitness.com/blog/2010/12/20/the-20-minute-hotel-workout/
Cool! Yeah, I've been trying to do a lot of body weight exercises lately. The "Convict Conditioning" and "Your Body ...
Ledger to OFX
I keep my finances in J Wiegley’s Ledger format, which means everything is in a flat text file, for easy editing. I recently decided to use Xero.com for both my company and personal accounts. Unfortunately, this means that I somehow needed to upload all my past transaction data. So I wrote a Python script to [...]
Evernote to Dropbox
I’ve just started using Evernote to make a note of things I find interesting on the web and to capture ideas or random thoughts. So far I love it! What I wanted was an easy way to extract the notes and save them to my filesystem, where they become much more useful. Specifically I want [...]
Hi Brett! We share space with Evernote in Mountain View. Good product, methinks.
Yeah, Evernote rocks!
How to get Maplin’s USB Microscope working on a Mac
I just brought Maplin’s USB Digital Microsoft with 400x magnification, which is advertised as having Windows-only drivers. System Profiler identified the chipset as being from Vimicro Corporation. I went to the Driver Download section of their website and downloaded (and installed) the DRV_ZC0301PLus_070305 driver. I then opened up Photo Booth, and was able to select the [...]
Yep no driver required, still would like to zoom in more the the mac, as photobooth is a fixed size. ...
Thanks for the info. Yeah, the one thing that annoys me about the microscope is the stand, which is pretty ...
DEVONthink and Emacs Completion
DEVONthink has the annoying habit of starting up if I try to complete a bit of text in Emacs on my Mac. By default DEVONthink is bound in the “Services” menu to Apple-Slash (Command-Slash). To fix this, open up “/Applications/DEVONthink Pro.app/Contents/Info.plist” in Emacs. Do a search for “NSKeyEquivalent” until you see an entry that looks [...]
Converting WMA files to MP3
I recently needed to convert a bunch of WMA files to MP3 on my macbook. The easiest way to do it was to open up a terminal window, change directory to the directory with the files, and then use mplayer to convert each file to a WAV, and then sox to convert the file to [...]