Month: July 2014

  • Inside The Pixar Braintrust

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  • Cool at 13, Adrift at 23 – NYTimes.com – Interesting. (No, I’m not brave enough to post that on my FB wall. Too many formerly popular high school kids still on there.)

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  • ESTJ

    As part of a training course I’m on at work, we were encouraged to take the Myers-Briggs personality test. I’d never done it before so I was really curious to see what my results would be. Turns out I’m an ESTJ. ESTJ: Practical, realistic, matter-of-fact. Decisive, quickly move to implement decisions. Organize projects and people…

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  • Here’s Why You Need To Try Grape-Nuts Ice Cream, New England’s Best Kept Dessert Slow Cooker Party Mix A Love Letter to the Chicago-Style Hot Dog Ramen: A Quick Fix for the Soul 5 Awesome “Graffitrees”: Graffiti with Actual Trees

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  • Moroccan Coriander and Carrot Soup | Cakecrumbs – Bookmarking. This looks good.

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  • This column will change your life: precrastination | Life and style | The Guardian – I definitely recognise some of myself in that description. I’ve actually talked about it with my manager at work. A few years ago I picked up on the idea that if a task only takes 2 minutes, you should just…

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  • Mi9 Anniversary

    Mi9 AnniversaryA big milestone came and went last week: my one-year Mi9 anniversary! It went so fast, and so much has changed in that time. My team launched the 9jumpin website and started migrating all the Channel 9 shows over to it, starting with The Block. A few friends left the company, and some old…

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  • Instagram-to-blog automated sharing While I’m on the topic of automated posting, I should also note for posterity that I changed the way I was pulling in Instagram photos. Previously I was using Webstagram to generate an RSS feed that was ingested by a cron job. Now that Instagram has an API, I decided to switch…

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  • Flipboard-to-blog automated sharingI was reading Flipboard the other day on the iPad, and I got annoyed for the hundredth time that there’s no easy way to get content OUT of Flipboard. I mean, if I see an article that I want to blog, it’s at least six clicks for me to post it here: Click…

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  • 9 Pimm´s Cup Recipes to Toast Wimbledon Life Itself (2014) Untitled StorkStand May Be the Simplest Standing Desk Ever Designed I Love That My Kid Is A Geek, I Just Wish There Was More Diverse Geeky Media For Her To Watch Easy DIY Fabric iPhone Covers Videos : [channel] How to’s and ideas Pavlok is…

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