music How We Listen to the Music We Love This wasn’t what I planned on writing about today… But since I’ve updated my gaming machine the other day (Goodbye Vista! – yeah, I was surprised too, to see it was still running that…) I’ve been doing a little bit of clean
challenge Another Year Gone By Another one of those, everyone is doing it, so should you things – the revision of the year behind us and the planning (including the obligatory New Year’s resolutions) for
goals NaNoWriMo Time It’s that time of the year again. Beginning of November, the time when most writers, especially the aspiring kind, get excited and plunge deep into writing. It’s like
30DB The End - 30DB #31 Finally, the last day of the month. Almost fitting that the last day will be number 31 for a 30 day blogging challenge… I must say I hoped I would enjoy the writing more. It made me realize that in fact I should be
30DB Random Ramblings - 30DB #30 Struggling to find a topic today. I have a few backups Why I love my Win8 What the heck is a phablet What makes an engaging post (not really this one…) Daily word counts However for most of these I have a specific idea
30DB I Have Been Summoned - 30DB #29 Today when I checked my letterbox in the afternoon I had a surprise waiting for me. At first I though it was more tax related paperwork, then for a brief panic moment I though I’ve been sued, to finally realize it was a
30DB DIY Plumbing - 30DB #28 This Sunday together with my partner we spent a good several hours dismantling our kitchen sink and trying to clean out a blockage that has gotten so bad that the sink would look more like a swimming pool the moment the tap was run.
30DB The Old School Entertainment - 30DB #27 In some respects I’m a bit old fashioned. One of the things this includes is my favourite pastime – playing table top role-playing games. Never understood the fun of sitting over alcohol in a pub too loud to hear your own thoughts let alone
30DB The Reader Writer Dilemma - 30DB #25 So I read this book today, I couldn’t put the thing down. The main character was annoying at points, there were things that should have been obvious to various characters, some of them behaved in stupid ways, some things about the world didn’
30DB We Don't Need to Be Best Friends - 30DB #22 Today’s topic might be a bit controversial… I want to talk about asking for favours, especially from people you might not be close to any more. I always found it strange that some people think they need to keep up a relationship with
30DB On Multitasking - 30DB #16 While thinking about today’s post I stumbled across the topic of multitasking. I remembered then reading some time ago how in fact juggling several tasks at the same time makes us less productive. I’ve been pretty guilty recently of indulging with distractions
30DB 7 Reasons Why Successful People Are Lucky - 30DB #14 It’s a common belief that successful people are the “lucky” ones. That life just throw rose petals under their feet, and their businesses flourish overnight into million dollar ventures. Recently I happened to chat with a friend of mine on this very topic,
30DB Good Intentions - 30DB #13 Sometimes you make plans, prepare to get things done, and then everything goes down the drain. With a trip to London planned for Saturday (yesterday) I pushed a lot of the regular work to Sunday. I even decided to skip a Fantasy Club meeting
30DB My Nemesis - 30DB #12 These are so addictive… I know I shouldn’t have, but then just one more… I think I should have a house ban on these.
30DB Weekends Are for the Family - 30DB #6 This weekend has been pretty slow in terms of work. Unfortunately one of the downsides of working from home on an online business, is that very often the distinction between weekdays and weekends becomes a distant memory from the office days. So do work
30DB Are you part of the 8%? - 30DB #5 As the theme of this blogging challenge focuses around things related to New Year’s resolutions I though it might be nice to share some facts and trivia about the phenomenon. To start of with the amount of people sticking to their resolutions is
30DB It's Not Tomorrow until I Go to Bed - 30DB #4 I have to admit to a small cheat on the previous post – I did need to adjust the posting time, because otherwise it would have to say something like Friday 7am. And no, I did not get up early to catch up on the
30DB You Will Never Get There - 30DB #2 The title of this post is a bit pessimistic, but the topic I wanted to talk about today is actually about positive attitude and dealing with perfectionism. I was going
books Why I Hate Winning I’m a bit of a computer game addict. Not a big fan of FPS though. However what recently struck me is that in many ways I actually do not want to win the game I’m playing. It might sound crazy at first,
games Technology of the Future Today Quite some time ago I stumbled upon this video from Nokia about a phone device that would be using nano technology. However on it’s own it didn’t feel like enough to write about, especially as it was just a concept. Then some
article Perception of Old And New Monuments [](http://www.flickr.com/photos/78128495@N00/87895533)Image by Tjflex2 via FlickrRecently I read this interesting [article about the “American Stonehenge”](http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/
musings The Two Hardest Things - The Start & The End I’m a perfectionist, with a very short attention span. This unfortunate combination coupled with easy excitement about new ideas/projects can cause a lot of trouble. When doing any writing or painting I practically fear that first word or the first line. I
musings Are Moleskine Notebooks Overrated? I heard about the Moleskine notebooks years ago. I stumbled upon them while looking for programs for my tablet pc for taking notes while at university. The software choice was not huge and trying to find some templates I kept ending up on pages
books Birthday Being one year older maybe isn’t the best thing to be cheering about, however I definitely had a great time this Saturday. One of my presents was the Canon G10 camera, so you can expect plenty of photos in the near future. We
