Lifehacker has a long piece on how to get music and video on and off your iPod, from any computer, without iTunes. If you’ve ever felt restricted by your iPod/iTunes, this will be a good read.
This guy has a hilarious post about his first experience with Second Life:
Yesterday I downloaded something called Second Life. It is like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, except you can’t shoot anyone, and you can’t hit people. You just walk around. There are no prostitutes, and everything costs real money, and you can’t rob anyone [...]
I have a love affair with chillies and anything spicy, so stuff like this “Ghost Chili” gets me excited… 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units! That’s about one hundred times as hot as your average Jalapeno. I wonder how big a piece of this chili one could comfortably eat?
I just left Nuremberg. It’s always impressive to be in places were history was made, and there sure was plenty of history made in this city – such as the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, for example.
Here’s a neat little animated map showing the different empires that conquered the Middle East over the last 5,000 years. If there’s one lesson to be learnt, it seems to be this: all large empires in human history have followed similar patterns, from growth to ultimate collapse.
This map reminds me of a book I [...]
I spent last week at the gorgeous Desert Springs Resort in Palm Desert (for work, I swear!).
This place is pretty amazing… A 436 acre property with an 18 acre man-made lake… The lake actually extends into the lobby of the hotel, where you can board little boats that take you out on the lake [...]
Spent the weekend in Las Vegas, which was a blast as usual and made even better by a fun Super Bowl party… Go Colts! Part of the fun was, of course, watching the Super Bowl commercials. There were some pretty funny ones, but overall I thought last year’s were better…
Here’s a good article on the early-morning routines of some successful business leaders. There’s no doubt that a little discipline in the morning will go a long way…
I currently get up at 5:45 and leave for work at around 6:30, but that’s about it as far as routine is concerned. I’ll make myself go [...]