consume less
make more
make time
focus on what’s important
tackle new challenges
learn a new skill
teach a young dog new tricks
launch a new product
stay solvent
get rich (why not?)
visit a new country
win a sailing race
drive a dog sled
relearn an old language (even if it’s javascript)
read less reddit (starting tomorrow I mean)
eat food, not too much, mostly plants
gain weight
keep blogging
don’t taunt a happy fun ball
have patience with those who walk more slower than me
be humble
be generous
try to make people smile
Lift, the amazing European (and now Global) tech conference isn’t really a tech conference at all it’s really an inspiration conference. Think a TED talks meets Barcamp meets a cirque du soleil production. Hard core techies beware though, Lift is a lot more abstract, design and human-oriented than you may be used to. Nonetheless, highly recommended. Unfortunately, though I haven’t missed a single Lift in Switzerland since the first one, this is likely to be the first year I don’t make it =( I would love, to see some of my Canadian friends represent however. Can you make it? 25-27 Feb 2009 Geneva. EDIT: if you are a Canadian who is thinking of buying a Lift ticket this year you should really give me a ping first.
I had the pleasure of being invited down to Ecomm last year by Lee Dryburgh the organizer. Ecomm is about what comes next in telecom (think disruption, wireless, telco2.0, from carrier business strategy to homebrew cell phone hackery) is a hell of a show with a nearly-preposterous amount of content crammed into just a few days. If this is your industry, you should be there, you may need an extra baggage allotment to carry-on your grossly overstuffed brain on flight home. San Francisco.
SXSW Interactive. Lastly SXSW, M and I are planning to be there for this one Mid-March. I have yet to go attend this famous “woodstock” of US tech (un)conferences. Given the current meldown 2.0 will still likely be in full swing (if not even swingier), should be an extra wonderfully weird time to be there.
It’s back! My (in)famous indie punk-ass Christmas mix for 2008. This is the 3rd year running and last year’s mix nearly blew out a year’s worth of bandwidth allocation, but here we go again. Because sometimes ordinary Christmas Carols just won’t do.
This year’s mix is an update from last year with some of your old favourites and a couple new 2008 tracks mixed in. First of the additions we have the new Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Christmas song as well as a nice Barenaked Ladies version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. But then if the BNL isn’t quite high enough on your punk-ass o’meter I’ve balanced that off with Oh Come All Ye Faithful by … wait for it … Twisted Sister — OH GOD YES.
01
Stars
Fairytale Of New York
02
Barenaked Ladies
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
03
Sufjan Stevens
Get Behind Me, Santa!
04
Ramones
Merry Christmas
05
No doubt
Oi to the World
06
sex pistols
12 days of christmas punk
07
the vandals
A gun for christmas
08
Eels
everything s gonna be cool this christmas
09
Twisted Sister
Oh Come All Ye Faithful
10
The Raveonettes
The Christmas Song
11
the knife
Reindeer
12
bright eyes
little drummer boy
13
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Christmas Blues
14
Rufus Wainwright
Spotlight on Christmas
15
Casiotone for the painfully alone
cold white christmas
16
Sufjan Stevens
O Holy Night
17
Aimee Mann
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
18
The pippettes
white christmas
19
the go team
the ice storm
20
Pogues
Fairytale Of New York
21
Yeah yeah yeahs
all i want for christmas
22
Tom Waits (bonus track)
Silent Night A Christmas Card from a hooker in St Paul
Grab the big giant zip file (93MB) here, download, import the included playlist file to itunes (or whatever your music program) to get all the songs in the right order and burn to CD and or listen away. Should *just* fit on an 80min CDR.
enjoy!
UPDATE: 7am Dec 22. Well that didn’t take long, bandwidth exceeded on server #1, give me an hour or two to set up some more bandwidth. BTW. Anyone else got a mirror they would like to lend for a few days?
UPDATE2: 2:14pm Dec 22 Alright you rapacious revelers found a new mirror for the file. go at it.
Meanwhile tonight’s project: learn how to make and host a torrent (any tips?)
UPDATE3: 9:35am Dec23 That twisted sister rendition? The internets have just informed me that there is a video… 🙂 🙂
SXSW Interactive. Lastly SXSW, M and I are planning to be there for this one Mid-March. I have yet to go attend this famous “woodstock” of US tech (un)conferences. Given the current meldown 2.0 will still likely be in full swing (if not even swingier), should be an extra wonderfully weird time to be there.