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Investing in one’s self

Jason Calacanis said that the best thing to do when on an economic downturn is to invest on one’s self. If you’re a company, concentrate on your core business keep focused, improve and grow your core. Individually, if you’re a 8/10 programmer, now’s the time to invest into becoming a 9/10. Whatever the case may be, the point is now’s the worst time to be worrying about anything external. On the contrary; now’s probably the time where the adage “help yourself before you can help others” is most applicable.

In any case, I decided to put a little spin on that and justified my most recent purchase:


What’s different in this picture?

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Synchronicity

Ok a lot of people have been asking for this. So for all two of you, here’s how to get your multiple Mac machine’s synced up without having to resort to a paid service (e.g. MobileMe) 😉 This is where everything is going… you mark my words.

Now for the obligatory introduction:

As you all know, computers have become more and more integrated into our everyday lives. And apart from the OS, there are some applications that we rely on almost all the time. Mail, Calendars, Addressbooks, etc. And these are constantly updated. And in the era of portable computing, keeping these devices “synchronized” is an important, but difficult task.

I’m here to give you some suggestions on how to deal with such data – because on OS X you can have near-realtime, reliable synchronization for free. Read More

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Apple Unibodies: Impressions

Thanks to a series of fortunate events, I was able to get some early Christmas gifts for Cris and myself:

And thanks to getting both; I was able to get to do a first hand comparison. Hopefully the contents of this post may prove useful to those considering getting the new Apple laptops.

Also pictures in the gallery

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Proposition 8

Hey, it was bound to come up in this blog right? Hahahaha!

So Proposition 8, in a nutshell is, quite frankly, one of those perfect examples why I think “religion” has no place in government policy. Lets be honest here, is there anything else that would make this sort of non-issue an issue? That shit is rooted in religious views no matter how you slice it. But again, I don’t say that religion should mind its own business because of it being “wrong” or “right” – but more of because religion is bound to give rise to conflict in any pluralistic society.

Proposition 8, taken from an article:

…aims to end same-sex marriage in California by amending the constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman.

While there certainly are nuances with regards to my stand on this, I’m interpreting “marriage” in this article in a “legal” context. If you can’t find the time to delineate the two, then that’s really not my problem. All the same, I’m going into “legal-union” (i.e. not sacrament) mode as far as this post goes.

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