My Move To The Mac (Encapsulated In A Few Brief Tweets)

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I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to look down on Macs as mere playthings. I’ll let the Tweets tell the rest of the story.

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Posted by Doug on February 4th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Linux, Macintosh, Open Source Software

G3Rst: “I Want Stacy’s Mom”

Fountains of Wayne vs. Lena Horne vs. The Wiseguys vs. Grease vs. Karen Young. This has no right being as good as it is.

Posted by Doug on January 9th, 2013 | No Comments Posted in Music

“How Will You Measure Your Life?”

This TEDxBoston talk from Clayton Christensen is incredible. In it, he talks about why not just nations, but companies, families and individuals fail and how, so often, we measure precisely the wrong things in order to succeed, whether we want to be good businesspeople, citizens or, most importantly, parents. How will you, and ultimately God, measure the “successes” in your life?

I was humbled, particularly, by his insights on investing in your children.

“It’s actually really important that you succeed at what you’re succeeding at, but that isn’t going to be the measure of your life. God doesn’t count, he doesn’t aggregate.”

Watch all 20 minutes of it.

Posted by Doug on December 21st, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Parenting, Videos

AXE COP Motion Comic, Episode #1

Does what it says on the tin. And yes, you should be excited about this.

Posted by Doug on December 7th, 2012 | No Comments Posted in Videos

Dragon House + Gramatik*, “Illusion Of Choice”

Awesome stuff.

Posted by Doug on November 20th, 2012 | 1 Comment Posted in Music, Videos

Son Of Coul

Good news, everyone! Agent Coulson has been confirmed to be headlining the upcoming S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show.

Posted by Doug on October 15th, 2012 | 1 Comment Posted in Comic Books, Videos
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