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I've been really happy with ridewithgps.com for route planning. I do sometimes have to go to other sites for areas I'm more unfamiliar with. It syncs any routes I make automaticall…

In early January, I broke my ankle and worked from home for something like 5 weeks. My job is software development and support for a manufacturing company, so I normally spend a fa…

The "please quit iTunes" thing happened to me with Xcode 4.0 on 10.6 as well. Pretty ridiculous.

This is definitely added to my list of beers to try. Thanks!

I actually presented this ( http://www.slideshare.net/mattmichielsen/how-to-make-beer ) at a local BarCamp a couple years ago instead of the talk I was planning to do on mercurial …

I'm doing some early research into starting a brewery or brewpub in a small town in Michigan. I'm hoping to bootstrap as much as possible, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to be takin…

His gangster persona is brilliant marketing.

I do laundry about once a week, and it takes about 2 minutes to load and start the washer, and after an hour (or whenever you get back to it) another 2 minutes to load and start th…

I've also found that turning off all push notifications of emails to my phone helps me ignore emails until I actually get to them. I pick a few times per day to go through them in …

No, it was pretty spontaneous, as the particular individual who typically works with me on that project and I were having a conversation about Idiocracy just hours prior to that.

I actually enjoy witty and clever commit messages. Just the other day one of my coworkers really enjoyed a commit message where I wrote "upgrayedd" instead of "upgrade".

This G thing has been getting out of hand for quite a while now. A friend was recently telling me how much better his new phone was because it is 4G. He said he didn't really know …

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/15/why-a-tale-of-a-p...

I prefer to treat text messaging like email, where I don't read it as soon as it is received. In fact, using Google Voice, my text messages ARE emails. People get used to and usual…

Lately I've been forwarding people that leave me voicemails the Google Voice transcription along with my response. At first, a couple people took offense, but now they're asking me…

I'm down to 4 out of 6 of these that haven't broken from regular use within the first year: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/70033870 Luckily, I live in the same town as …

I think this winter I'm going to build my own version of the GeekDesk. I'll put it on instructables.com or whatever and document it. I'd start today, but I have too many other hous…

I read Breakfast of Champions a while ago and really enjoyed it. I'll have to check that one out.