I just watched a very interesting TED talk given by Kasper Bormans about his PhD research into using the Method of Loci (or Memory Palace technique) to help Alzheimer patients retain their memories of other people for longer.
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Displaying a Productivity Chart in Emacs
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I have created the following bit of Emacs Lisp that generates my daily productivity graph and displays it in it's very own emacs buffer. You can kill the buffer by pressing the 'q' key.
Starting apache on OS/X Mountain Lion
Apache is still bundled with Mountain Lion, but you can no longer start it using the "Sharing" icon under the "System Preferences" app.
Productive Workflow
I've been using time-boxing for quite a while, off and on. I have a task list every day and start timing chunks of time in which to work on the tasks. I'm not like Helen, who finds it easy to work at home. I find it far easier to work at a client's office. This has changed recently though, thanks to my new work-flow.
What Google Glass might soon be like
There is an interesting clip over on YouTube, that shows what having Google Glass (or something similar) might someday be like.
Getting a custom Info directory working with Emacs
I've just had a frustrating 15 minutes trying to get a custom "Info" directory working with Emacs on my Mac. I like to have my own texinfo files in a ~/my/doc/info directory. Unfortunately, I was having a hard job getting Emacs to incorporate the directory whenever I hit Ctl-h i.
Slaves, Robots and Labour
There is an interesting post over at pieria.co.uk called "The Financialisation of Labour". Frances Coppola compares the changing economic incentives between a company making a capital investment in a slave and an employee. She then suggests replacing the word "slave" with the word "robot".
Desktop Spectrometry Kit
Yesterday I found something super-cool - a desktop spectrometry kit (for $40, which is even cooler). A spectrometer is a device for determining the composition of chemicals using light. There is a public database over at SpectralWorkbench.org, where you can upload your spectrographs.
The Technological Unemployment Problem
Jon Perry has written an interesting post listing some strategies for dealing with the Technological Unemployment Problem.
The Technological Unemployment Problem is the issue of technology replacing humans to the point that there is massive unemployment.
Mnemonic Tagging
OK, here is an idea I had this morning: It's called "Mnemonic Tagging". The idea is that you create a list of keywords (or tags) that you use to mentally file mnemonic visualizations. For each of these tags you imagine something that represents the tag, followed by a chain of mnemonics that relate to that tag.