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When I was much younger I became familiar with Getting Things Done via the then popular Lifehacking movement. Getting Things Done is a system for taking control of your projects and life by getting all the stuff you need to do into a single system. While I am not a perfect adherent, the general principles have proven durable and useful since I started using it in my law school years.

One of the biggest challenges in diagnosing technology problems is reproducibility. If a screen breaks then it is easy to see and fix. However if you have an intermittent software problem then it can be hard to show the engineers its occurrence when you complain. The same thing happened to me yesterday with my oven. It has been overshooting its temperature after a while but the technician could not reproduce the issue. I am still stuck with a broken oven.

A fun article from Mel Magazine:

GoldenEye 007 was originally planned to be a 2D, single-player side-scrolling game, much like Donkey Kong, another game that British developers Rare were producing at the time for the SNES. However, lead developer Martin Hollis suggested it be a 3D first-person shooter for the Nintendo 64, a system and technology that didn’t even fully exist yet. He got his way, and assembled a ragtag team of new-to-gaming developers to begin working on what was expected to be “just another film license” game — games that typically rode the movie’s fame, but didn’t prove to be smash hits, critically or commercially.

I recently came to discover that my iPad can tether to my iPhone Internet connection. This means that while I am on the red line to work I can use my iPad on the Internet to be productive. Suddenly work that I have been needing to do at home can be accomplished while I am in transit. I found a new block of useful time.

The other day I wrote a post about going to the dentist and it apparently was reverted from its finished state before I mindlessly committed the post to GitHub. As a result everyone was left with a bit of a cliffhanger, which I have now removed. Unfortunately the result is a post that barely had a story or useful thought.