October 2011
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How to write a perfect daily task list
I’ll announce the winner of the “weekend project” poll in the next post ;-)
These are the rules that I give myself when drafting my daily task list. Your task list MUST…
be the first thing you do every day I write mine after breakfast before brushing my teeth / showering etc
use yesterdays list as a startpoint in case there’s anything incompleted or left-over
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Vote for a weekend app!
It’s been decided that on the weekend of the 12th of Nov I shall “scratch the itch” and create something using my nerdy skills - after skimming my Ideas Bucket (a big, daft google doc full of ideas) I have rounded up a few non-too consuming ideas; write me a comment, tweet, wall-post, carrier pigeon etc and let me know what you think I should do!
1 - Revisit oosubs
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Now *that's* a whiteboard!
So you saw the raw projector mount I rigged up on Saturday right? Well I spent some time on Sunday painting the “screen” with whiteboard paint; now I have a home cinema and somewhere to brainstorm my ideas - huzzah!
[I was going to upload a picture of a white wall, but I’m confident you can imagine a large white square in a sea of magnolia… you’re an intelligent...
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Today I made... a projector ceiling mount!
Try and buy a “non poop” ceiling mount for a projector and you’ll be lucky to get one for under £40, so I did the logical thing and made one for about £2.50 - and it’s perfect for my needs! Hurray for wood :-)
the low-rez photo hides all manner of sins
To finish the job I am applying Rust-Oleum Dry-Erase paint onto the surface opposite to act as a dual purpose...
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on working with your Dad :-)
At the tender age of 13, as my friends were picking up paper-rounds I found myself picking up tomes of programming books - for the fun. My favourite hobby was trying to grasp something firmly outside of the normal school experience, programming and physics were the most exciting - there’s just so many boggling ideas to transcend!
Going back it makes a lot of sense; my Dad had recently...
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Unripe chillis? 'ave a banana!
A little factoid:
Fruits pump out the Ethylene hormone when ripening
Ethylene stimulates the ripening of fruit
Fruits pump out the Ethylene hormone when ripening
Ethylene stimulates the ripening of fruit
Fruits pump out the Ethylene hormone when ripening
Ethylene stimulates the ripening of fruit
…and so on!
Armed with this knowledge I decided to turn to the humble banana, a...
