Archive for September, 2009

The Blue LED of Death

September 11th, 2009

Blue_LED

Recently I bought a nifty little USB charger for my iPod touch and mobile phone.  You can build these things, but I was in a rush, and Radio Shanty had them on sale. I was so pleased at how tiny my vacation bag was without my enormous collection of wall warts.

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The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

September 10th, 2009

the_element_ken_robinson_cover

One of the nicest things about taking a summer sabbatical (or siesta as my darling wife prefers to call it), is that I get to read books. Maybe I don’t read a bunch more when on vacation, but I do get to noodle with a book’s ideas more than I do when hard at work. The Element is a book I enjoyed thinking through.

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