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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
Vinh on Email
“Email is not broken, if you ask me. It could be better, for sure, but I don’t think it requires the drastic changes that so many other people seem to believe are necessary. And I certainly don’t need messaging intermediaries entering the picture. These alternatives just fracture what is for me a pretty well consolidated …
Even Chatbots talk about god and unicorns
What do robots do when not our bidding? Discuss all the things we talk about when we think no one’s listening; god, unicorns, and our failing memories.
Unsupportive
Earlier this spring, I picked up a used electric lawn mower. After performing marvelously for most of the summer – it died. Batteries no longer held a charge. Dead. Not that unusual in this household. The batteries in the 2 Dell Mini laptops in the house also, after 2 years, can’t hold a charge. Which, …
The Focused MacBook Air
Knowing that the hard drive in my MacBook Pro will go at moment, I picked up a MacBook Air this week (13″, 1.8GHz, 256MB, 4GB). In the process of setting it up – I’ve decided to make this new machine a focused, minimal, work, machine. Despite Migration Assistant – I want to start some new …
Opting Out of the Old You
“In other words, I need to unsubscribe from my old habits, and embrace new ones. It’s about time”. – Anna Spysz
How to Automagically Sync Directories Across Multiple Macs with Git & Launchd
In an effort to minimize my downtime when the funny noises this MacBook Pro is making finally amount to something – I’ve wired up a git repository to OS X’s native launchd service. The git repository hold all of my active projects – whether development projects with their own repos, research projects, consulting project. Everything. …
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email’s inviting
Landing in my inbox this morning: “Many people have mentioned that they didn’t receive the Evite invitation we sent, so I’m sending this follow up email…”
It’s been a long time since I’ve ….
read any William Gibson (Idoru, ATM – thx to Jim) listened to Bad Religion for half the day then listened to drum and bass for the rest of the day done any programming that made my life easier and more confident. Yet, for whatever reason, they all feel so perfect right now.
Some Chose IRC
“I want to experiment with more slow-cooked communications, and with making deeper connections to the people I interact with.” – Gregory Brown It makes me smile to think about a mass migration out of Twitter into boring, timeless, technologies like email and IRC. IRC especially.