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One thing I have noticed is that the boldface on unread articles appears to be off. For example, one of my subscriptions is Hacker News ( http://news.ycombinator.com/rss ). If I 'm…

Considering that this is Digg Reader's first public outing, it is very, very good. This can only bode well. Well done guys!

Losing faith is a form of procrastination, and procrastination is a way of not experiencing some feeling that for some reason we are unwilling to experience. As a general rule we p…

This is a great article. With regard to the 'call to action', I wouldn't under estimate the difficulty in changing the context (duration, specificity or 'me'-centricity) of our jud…

I've found that when we are confident, relaxed and grounded in the present moment, prioritisation tends to take care of itself, in as much as 'what's next' becomes quite clear and …

Paul, in emphasising code brevity I think you are missing a greater good. I believe most of us subconsciously look for a language that is frictionless -- one that allows us to expr…

That's really good elven.... and you get treble points for your openness and willingness to share. You'll go a long way my friend, I'm sure.

In Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Two of us working on a web service that should make blogging more 'two-way' and social, as opposed to the rather one-way broadcast activity than it i…

"OOP to me means only messaging, local retention and protection and hiding of state-process, and extreme late-binding of all things. It can be done in Smalltalk and in LISP. There …

Shiro, you are definitely one of the lucky ones. Very few know what it is to do something solely for the joy of doing the thing itself... and the great paradox is that when that is…

And if it's fun then where's the effort? I'm with you Shiro... I'll take fun any day.

If, as it appears, whatever-it-is-that-replaces-Moores's-law states that the number of processor cores will double every 18 months from now on, then in 6 years time 32 core machine…

You are quite right Shiro.. it does take effort, but only as long as we believe that it takes effort ;-) The central thesis of 'The little book of Flow' I linked to above is that t…

You tend to find that 'hard work == discipline == genius' is the illusory conclusion made by those on the outside looking in. When we are truly inspired, in the 'flow' if you like,…