How Newsletters and Marketing emails have taken over our inboxes.

GTD and Inbox Zero help keep me sane, with the enormous amount of input (in GTD parlance) that I receive via email.

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Google strong-arms Acer

Alibaba said that Acer “was notified by Google that if the product runs Aliyun OS, Google will terminate its Android- related cooperation and other technology licensing with our partner….We regret Google’s action.”

Stay classy Google.

via the loop original article: Press release from Taipei

Follw up to last week’s post: Summary of Apple Rumors and Predictions Which I Believe to Be True…

How close was I?

For all those that don’t obsessively follow the Apple news and rumor sites, I’ll summarize it for you. I’m hoping to keep this list updated.

In the past I leveraged jQuery’s events to create a client side message bus in javascript. Triggering and subscribing to global events is a great way to decouple your javascript code and make it more flexible and maintainable. Enter backbone JS, which has even better built in support for events. An easy way to get started is to bolt on event support to your main global app object:

Just moved my blog from wordpress.com to Octopress. Octopress runs atop jekyll to generate static files and can deploy to pretty much any hosting provider - but has special tools for hosting on github pages - where this blog is now hosted. First I looked at Jekyll on its own, but seems like it required too much manual configuration - whereas Octopress makes all the choices for you. You just need to make changes.

Blog posts are created by editing a text file locally using Textmate 1 in markdown, generating the blog and deploying. The blog’s filename implies the posting date, for example this posts file name is

sources/_posts/2012-09-07-from-wordpress-to-octopress.markdown

and you also include what they call a YAML UpfrontMatter to the top of every post to include additional metadata. For example for this post:

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layout: posta
title: "From wordpress to octopress"
date: 2012-09-07 23:10
comments: true
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So far I’m really happy with it. If you’d like to give it a whirl yourself, All the info you need is at Octopress. It’s got a very vibrant community, which is always a good thing.

What it means:

Javasript code is running for longer than 10 seconds. Thats the limit on Firefox 15. Other browsers may vary, googling reveals Internet Explorer’s limit is 5 million lines of code (!) and Chrome allows 30 seconds.

If you’re like me and constantly use the same keyboard+trackpad on 4 different OSX computers..you may appreciate this tip. Fastest way to pair to a new computer (even if its already paired with a different computer):

Documentation seems a bit sparse, so here is the low down: