Archive for August, 2009

unsaved changes

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Three messages/reminders for today..

(1) death

unsaved changes

(2) parenting

a must watch video for parents.. by Devon White, a professional neurohacker and the lead developer of the human operating system

What Do You Want – The Most Important Question When Brainwashing Your Children

(3) exercise

Are You Fit Enough to Sit in Front of a Computer All Day?

it is not natural to sit in front of a computer all day !!!

soul cleansing on vinayaka chathurthi

Sunday, August 23rd, 2009

Today is Vinayaka Chathurthi, the birthday of Lord Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati.

Biodegradable Ganesha idols are available at e-coexist.com – “natural and recycled products”

biodegradable ganesh idol from e-coxist.com

photographs of the beaches in Mumbai the day after the visarjan, Manish Vij, Ultra Brown – oh..

The environmental significance of Ganesh Chaturthi

Today is a good time for soul cleansing :-)

GoodGuide Slideshows

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of information on the health, environmental, and social impacts of the products in your home.

20% of yogurts have a food color recommended to be banned

The photos in GoodGuide Slideshows are so beautiful..

btw – came across

  1. 33 of the Healthiest Foods on Earth written by David H. Murdoch – David H. Murdock is Chairman and owner of Dole Food Company, Inc., the world’s largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, packaged and frozen foods. He is also Chairman, CEO and owner of Castle & Cooke, Inc., a leader in real estate development.
  2. Working for Scrooge: 5 Worst Companies for the Right to Associate – Dole is one of the 5.. “Considering its operations in the two most dangerous countries for trade unionists, it is no surprise that Dole has been accused of illegal measures to prevent union formation.”
  3. _why – Eulogy to _why , The Impermanence, Karma, and Bad Behavior of Why The Lucky Stiff

If an iPhone app is good for John Gruber

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

John Gruber’s review of simplenote : ..not only is Simplenote my favorite, it might be my favorite third-party iPhone app, period..

smokingapples.com’s notes apps roundup : ..it’s hard to beat if you’re looking for a clean, simple, stable, syncing notes app..

drdrang’s impressions of simplenote

simplenoteapp.com is so clean

Simplenote

(now to complete the title) It should be good for me :-)

Suggestions

  1. sort notes
  2. if there are lots of empty lines in the note after the title… just display the title only on the overview page instead of the first non-empty line after the title
  3. email – option to just accept an email within the app and send vs. opening the mail app
  4. provide some Paul Graham’s essays as default notes :-)
  5. ..

a tiny thread

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

It seems that @joshua has started a tiny thread

cherokee is beautiful and linode too

tinythread functionality wishlist

  1. up .. down
  2. better yet : collective ordinal priority :-)
  3. wordcloud
  4. search
  5. private threads

best wishes friendfeed