Hacker. Human.
I’m in the market for a cheap Windows-powered notebook.
I’ve never been terribly happy with virtualizing on my Mac OS X notebooks (either using VMware, Parallels, VirtualBox, etc…) so I’m looking for a cheap native notebook that I can run tests on.
Any suggestions? I’m thinking a small, perhaps 10″ ultrabook or something like this or this or this. Looking for cheap.
Love your thoughts! … I’m also curious about people’s favorite virtualization software…
Today is a #GangnamStyle type of day. Do you agree?
— John Saddington (@saddington) September 7, 2012
WordPress just released the newest self-hosted version with v3.4.2 and it is sweet! There are a number of security improvements among other neat styling updates but there are two updated features that you should definitely know about!
The first is the fact that you now have native Twitter embeds built right in. It couldn’t get any easier at this point!
All you have to do is copy and paste in the direct link to the tweet and voila, it shows right in your content layer! The above tweet is simply this:
1 | https://twitter.com/tentblogger/status/244088850719330304 |
Pretty cool, right? For those that leverage Twitter a lot for not only their own social platform and brand development but also source interesting tweets and articles this new update is a killer one.
Benny Hsu
This is a Guest Story by Benny Hsu, who blogs over at Get Busy Living and who inspires others to live the best life they can possibly live.
After I graduated college, I thought life would be awesome. I had gotten good grades in high school and got a master’s degree in college. I did what I was supposed to do.
So after college, I continued to do what everyone else expected of me. I got a job. I bought a house. I had a nice car. I worked long hours and weekends. Coming home dead tired was supposed to be a sign of putting in a good day at work.
I should be happy because this is how life is supposed to be.
I had never been more unhappy in my life. I’d come home from work and be unmotivated to do anything else. I’d spend my hours numbing the pain by surfing the web and watching TV.
However deep inside I knew I wanted more. I knew I could do more with my life. I had big dreams, but they seemed so far away from where I was.
I kept hoping that one day I’d wake up and my life would change. I expected miracles to happen. Why? Probably cause I felt like I deserved it. I had done everything I was supposed to do, so why was I so unhappy?
One night in October 2010, I decided to make a change. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was driving home from another miserable night at work. I was fed up with my life, like many other nights. For so long, I had wanted a happier life and do work I was proud of, however I didn’t do anything about it.
I came to realize that night that I needed to do something. I needed to take action and work on changing my life and not stop till I was happy.
I needed to stop using hope as a strategy and put in the hard work. Continue Reading…
For those that have been following and reading this blog for some time you’ve most likely noticed a few changes here and there, some of which you might have liked and others that you may not have agreed with completely.
If you’ve been paying attention you will have noticed a few of the following things:
For sure there have been a few of you who have noticed and have given me some private acknowledgements, both positive and some that I would consider very negative, but it is what it is. Continue Reading…
This is a Guest Story by Adam Shields, who blogs daily at BookWi.se. He’s a nanny and part-time non-profit consultant when he’s not reading and reviewing!
If I were to tell my blogging story in a single sentence it would be this:
Do what you can, and regularly work on small improvements.
In 2009, I was a consumer of blogs. I had tried a time or two to blog about something or the other. But I never really had a focus other than the single thought. Mark Lee (of Third Day) hosted a summer book club on his blog and I blogged about several of the books I had read over the summer.
A few months later, John Saddington inspired me to put forth real effort to blog my book reviews. By the end of 2009 I was regularly blogging 2 or 3 book reviews a week.
By February 2010, I started regularly posting about free books that were being offered for Kindle. It was a small addition, usually only once or twice a week at first. Primarily I was collecting free books for my own kindle library and I just started blogging about them as a service to family and friends that also had kindles.
Soon after that I started also reviewing ‘reading tools’ (kindle apps, websites for readers, etc.). These additions were primarily about trying to blog every day. There was no way that I could review a book every day. And there were not enough free kindle books at the time to justify a post every day by itself.
[A good companion post to this one are my thoughts about ending my time at school for 7 years since I've been married as long as I've been working on those two Masters degrees.]
Today marks my 7th anniversary with my bride – I’m not sure what my feelings are about it all and the typical copper and/or wool gift for #7 isn’t that impressive either.
“We’ve survived.” is all I can muster at this point. It’s been a heck of a ride, that’s for sure! It’s interesting to reflect on how many things have changed – how many people have come in and out of our lives and how we’ve changed our perspectives about nearly everything in life.
We were young and idealistic and hopeful for the future; we had no idea how tough it would be to make it through each year. Much of this is the perseverance on my wife’s part who has helped keep things together and who has paid much. She didn’t know that she had married and entrepreneur but she quickly discovered this reality and has been incredibly faithful throughout.
Some of the things that I’ve challenged her with would make most women wilt, I would imagine, but she’s risen and embraced the challenges fully. I’ve done as best as I’ve can to minimize these, over the past few years and bring a balance to my efforts.
I’ll be importing over my personal blog to a section off of TentBlogger this week. This means that there might be a few small interruptions while I do this!
You’ve been notified.
I’ve already announced that I’ll be attending the much-anticipated Savvy Blogging Summit and I’ve gotten permission to take one of my community members with me!
This is a sweet opportunity to hang out at a great conference with other bloggers and online publishers who are just as pumped as you are about taking their efforts to the next level.
Oh, and of course we’ll hang out too.
Rules of entry are quite simple:
Michelle Welsch
I love to connect with people who are doing things “differently” – people who create different perspectives and then go do something about it. And… then I get to share them with others!
One person that I’ve been able connect with recently is Michelle Welsch, who’s got a new project called Project Exponential, and she’s got this neat viewpoint on developing curated communities that I really dig.
Here’s the general description:
Project Exponential examines the ways in which we connect and form relationships, both online and off. It recognizes those who triumph, who add something special to their world, who leave a trace of good in their wake.
My intent is to introduce people in unique environments, provide opportunity for inspiration and growth, and intersect industries with complementary goals. I want connections to be memorable.
I do this through curated networking experiences, working closely with clients to create meaningful events.
As a result of attending, it is my hope you will be inspired to contribute more, give more, question more, try more, fail more, succeed more, and be open to the connections around you.
I was able to connect with her through the internet and then meet up with her at one of Seth Godin’s last live events.
I decided to interview her and share her with my community here, since she’s the type of person that you’d like to rub shoulders with, both in the meat space and virtually.
Take a look at this community interview with Michelle Welsch:
I first joined in October of 2003. I started using it in 2004.
I have decided to completely wipe (unfriend) my personal Facebook profile and leave it behind, for good.
Now, this might come as a shock to many of you who might find it odd that I would do such a thing but I can assure you that it wasn’t an easy decision and not one that was done in haste. I had been thinking about this for quite some time and some conversations with my friends yesterday helped move the needle into the “execution” part of my plan.
I hadn’t planned on wiping my Facebook profile yesterday but that’s what organically happened. I even managed to capture a video (which didn’t record my audio, so I added a voice-over after) which is embedded in this post and which shares a few of my thoughts about this endeavor.
I first joined Facebook in October of 2003 – a girlfriend at the time signed me up and told me that I “had” to be on this site because that’s what everyone was doing. She went ahead and created an account (got my email address wrong) and so I wasn’t actually able to use it until nearly a year later when I created a new one with the right email address.
