taw's blog

I'm in the middle of long overdue full GTD review, and one thing I've noticed was that aspects of my life that have a Beeminder g...

Turn on Sublime Text, go to user configuration, press Cmd-, (or Ctrl-,) to go to User preferences, delete whatever was there before, and ...

I download a huge ton of podcasts, audiobooks, and youtube videos for watching on the train or listening while shopping or exercising (si...

Some Magic cards are "better" than others in vague sense. Some are even " strictly better " - that's a narrow concep...

So this post will be about two only loosely related things - some problems with akrasia theory and my Beeminder status update. Akrasia ...

" Save the Cat " is a guide on how to be a successful screenwriter in Hollywood. As you might have guessed, I have no such ambi...

Last week I took part in a 2-day presentation skills course ran by Christopher Bowerman from Tripos Consultants . I prepared presentati...

That's something I've seen requested on various forums a lot, so here it is: a mod that allows anybody to adopt a vassal or court...

Ten days ago I started serious Beeminder experiment . I came up with 10 things I want to track, and 6 of them seemed sensible enough to p...

I added speedup_mp3 utility to my unix-utilities repository on github . If your phone, mp3 player, or whatever else you use can't s...