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30 day challenge: learn 30 new words

Posted by admin on 2011/01/01 at 6:04 am

For the record, here’s the words I ended up learning this month: ana: the collection of memorable sayings, writings, or other information of an interesting person. brumous: misty, foggy capax: legally competent daggle: to soil by dragging in the mud deosculate: to kiss affectionately dorty: bad-tempered ensky: to make immortal eoan: related to the dawn or the east foss: ditch or canal; an artificial stream gurry: diarrhea hwyl: an emotional outburst of eloquence (Welsh) incondite: crude, unfinished jehu: someone who loves to drive. a fast driver kalon: the kind of beauty that is more than skin deep leal: faithful, loyal, true

Which charities do you donate to?

Posted by admin on 2010/12/29 at 7:05 pm

Each year I like to ask what charities people are donating to. There’s still a couple days left in 2010, so I wanted to ask readers about their charity or non-profit giving

Report on a 30 day challenge: Write a Novel

Posted by admin on 2010/12/15 at 6:26 pm

Last month during National Novel Writing Month I decided to write a 50,000 word novel . My novel started like this: My name is Russ

What would you do if you were CEO of Google?

Posted by admin on 2010/11/18 at 6:58 pm

Every so often I like to play a game I call “CEO of Google.” The idea of the game is that through some combination of weird circumstances, you are now the CEO of Google.

Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes

Posted by admin on 2010/11/11 at 5:41 pm

I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect.

New 30 day challenges: Get my finances in order. Write a novel.

Posted by admin on 2010/10/05 at 3:43 pm

Alright, I’ve decided my next two 30 day challenges. In October, I’m going to get my finances in order. Follow along with me to talk about money, hatch plans, and carry them out–it should be fun! Then in November, I’m going to write a novel.

30 day challenge: meditation

Posted by admin on 2010/10/04 at 4:08 pm

I just finished up a 30 day challenge of spending 15 minutes a day meditating. I tried everything from traditional posture to sitting outside to lying on the ground. I experimented with keeping my eyes open vs.

30 day challenge: meditation

Posted by admin on 2010/10/04 at 4:08 pm

I just finished up a 30 day challenge of spending 15 minutes a day meditating. I tried everything from traditional posture to sitting outside to lying on the ground.

Goo.gl url shortener is now open to everyone!

Posted by admin on 2010/09/30 at 8:42 pm

I love this: the goo.gl url shortener is now open to everyone ! I know the folks that worked on this, so let me answer a few quick questions. Q: Why are you doing this? A: Google needed a url shortener for its own products where we knew the shortener wouldn’t go away.

Recapping Google’s new two-factor authentication

Posted by admin on 2010/09/20 at 5:14 pm

I wanted to post about Google’s new two-factor authentication announcement. Two-factor authentication is something you have (e.g. a phone) and something you know (e.g.