http://www.andrewmayfield.com by Andrew Mayfield Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:20:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What about this guy?ShareThis http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/07/02/walter-sells-his-soul/ Can't wait for the iPhone 3G. It seems that along with it will come the release of OmniFocus and Things, both outstanding task management apps for OSX. Personally I'm not at my desktop or laptop all that much so I'm really looking forward to using these apps (well, one of ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/06/29/todo-showdown/ The famously fantastic Episode party series is this year moving out to Petone to go head to head with the righteous Rumpletron. It could be dangerous, we don't know, but it won't matter much as there will be a plethitude of dandy doctors and naughty nurses on the dance floor ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/06/07/rumpus-vs-episode-rythmic-emergency-08/ Very entertaining article by Joel Spolsky about not forgetting where you came from and acknowledging that its your own fault if you chose not to take a compass or if they weren't invented yet, either way the new recruits won't leave without a TomTom.ShareThis http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/02/28/sir-very-noble-of-you-sir/ For quite some years I have bugged a good friend of mine, Mike White, about his "shortlist". Only jesting of course, but the simple question "how's your shortlist?" has usually been answered honestly and to the point. At some stage the question got abbreviated even further to "how's boys?" for Alyssa, ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/02/09/hows-your-shortlist/ Lately I've been using my macbook and imac side by side with one shared keyboard and mouse using Synergy. It works an absolute treat. However, I am bored of typing in commands in Terminal to get Synergy going so I've made my first shell scripts to allow my usual double ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/01/22/unix-shell-scripts/ Damn, that's a sexy scooter. Good thing my girlfriend is away this week because I have reunited with an old long time love from university: Scooting. Back then I used to ride from Karori down to town and back. This new so called Monster Bullet from Micro is so much fun ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2008/01/08/monster-bullet/ Somehow I have managed to avoid the usual stress of finding xmas gifts this year!! (I hate shopping for gifts out of obligation when I don't know what to buy. I like the giving, but not the shopping). That is to say, I got them all in advance. SO MUCH ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2007/12/23/kick-start-the-habit/ Good 'ol Merlin Mann, gotta love this quote: Yeah, I know smart execs have delegated for centuries. But I can envision a world where sweating over your beepy electronic device starts looking about as “executive” and “pro-active” as sucking on a crack pipe in the break room. Lately I've taken to treating ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2007/09/15/sweating-over-your-beepy-device/ I realise that posting this is blatant advertising for St John's, but what an excellent promo. 5 free beers over 5 days and then a $50 bar tab to say thanks for drinking the free beer. Every day next week St Johns loyalty members will get a free beer from a ... http://www.andrewmayfield.com/2007/09/13/st-johns-loyalty-promo/