By mattr on October 27, 2009
If you are preparing to install Windows 7, or have just finished – then you’ll know what a pain it is to reinstall all your favourite applications straight afterwards. repaving a PC is never that easy.
There is Windows Live Essentials which grabs a few good tools from Redmond (Windows Live Writer being my favourite) – [...]
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By mattr on October 26, 2009
Still with me on this? Another Monday rolls round and I have a bunch of great music that really demands your attention, but don’t take my word for it – click the links to listen to clips on Amazon before you make a purchase of these fine albums to expand your music collection.
Strict Joy [...]
Posted in buildyourmusiccollection, music
By mattr on October 25, 2009
Slightly later this week – being posted from my temporary base in Seattle – some Sunday inspiration to check out alongside coffee and papers.
Come my tan faced children, follow well in order. Pioneers, O Pioneers – by Walt Whitman. Bought to me by a Levis commercial, but a beautiful American Poem.
Wonderful Life by Black [...]
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By mattr on October 25, 2009
Disclosure – this book was given to me as a review copy from the Librarything early reviewers program. Check out my Librarything bookshelves now.
A nice quick read that focuses a good amount of time on the prevention of Getting into Debt – there are some good examples of how the reader can slip into [...]
Posted in books, expandyourmind, onetoread
By mattr on October 24, 2009
I’m going to let you into a little secret – being brilliant is absolutely within your reach – just one click (and 50 small steps away).
The fantastic Nicholas Bate has developed a cheat sheet for his ‘How to be Brilliant’ series of blog posts.
I’d take his advice – find some paper, print this off [...]
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By mattr on October 23, 2009
On the dark side of the Moon, man has found the answer to all his energy needs – mining an essential element to generate clean, sustainable power for earth. Such an easy solution – until the one man stationed there on a three year contract, is suddenly face-to-face with a younger, more angry version [...]
Posted in movies, onetowatch
By mattr on October 22, 2009
By coincidence, I’m here in Seattle on the day that Windows 7 is released, its one of my quarterly visits to the mother ship to sync with my team, who are busily engaged in building a great support experience for Online Services and BPOS. I enjoy coming here and hanging with some really bright people [...]
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By mattr on October 21, 2009
The second in an occasional series – some suggestions to build up your music collection, but not the new shiny stuff. These suggestions focus on the outskirts, building up your back catalogue to find some gems. Don’t take my word for it – click the links to get to the Amazon pages for these artistes. [...]
Posted in buildyourmusiccollection, music
By mattr on October 20, 2009
Easily devoured in a short flight – ‘A Day at the Airport’ (Amazon UK link) is an interesting experiment of having an ‘author in residence’ at Heathrow Airport. Of course, it helps that the author in question is Alain de Botton, who has a significant following and some great books under his belt.
Unfortunately the [...]
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By mattr on October 19, 2009
Of course you do! Show the world how much a new week means to you – with an ‘I Love Mondays’ cube poster from Nicholas Bate. Awesome stuff Nick! I suggest a wallpaper for those of us digital nomads that don’t have a cube or an office this Monday…
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