9 Tips To Increase Your Focus For Getting Things Done

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theendresult: So true. No matter what it is, get out of your comfort zone. It doesn’t have to be “crazy”, but if it’s not in your comfort zone, DO IT! And if it IS crazy… even better.jaymug: Where the magic happens.

theendresult:

So true. No matter what it is, get out of your comfort zone. It doesn’t have to be “crazy”, but if it’s not in your comfort zone, DO IT! And if it IS crazy… even better.

jaymug:

Where the magic happens.

theendresult: Words to live by every day.

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Words to live by every day.

MaxCDN Breaks Web Fonts on WordPress

Setting up MaxCDN (or any CDN, for that matter) along with W3 Total Cache in WordPress will break your @font-face web fonts in IE and Firefox. This is because these two browsers apparently won’t load fonts from a separate domain.

In my experience, fixing this took two steps. First, I had to go into W3 Total Cache’s CDN settings and prevent fonts and any stylesheets that reference them from being uploaded to the CDN. I did this by entering the path to my theme’s fonts in the rejected files box like so:

wp-content/theme/mytheme/fonts/*

wp-content/themes/mytheme/styles.css

The star on the first one is important; it selects all the font files in that directory. I also removed all the font file types from the default upload list to be thorough. 

The second thing I had to do was go over to the Minify options and turn off CSS minification. Not really sure why this screws up fonts, but it does.

Once these two things were done, I purged any font and CSS files already on the CDN and emptied the cache. Everything works now!

jennydeluxe: This photograph, taken of Steve Jobs in his living room in 1982, is one of my favorites. At the time he was quoted as saying “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.” It’s impressive. When Steve visited the Times last spring when the iPad first came out, the effect was electric, exactly as Carr describes it. The morning of our meeting, he was already in the building, but we didn’t see him. He waited until we were all seated in a conference room and then he made his entrance. Not one second sooner. I was too nervous to ask too many questions, but at the end of the conversation, I hesitated, then walked over to shake his hand and say hello. I wasn’t even a year into my job at the paper and I felt shy, anxious, unsteady. Unworthy of being included in that room. Steve was thin, thinner than we expected, but even so, his eyes were flinty, sharp and curious, his lips curving into a mischievous half-smile. I introduced myself and his ears perked up. “I’ve read your stuff,” he said. “It’s good!” It was a tiny moment in time, lasting no longer than a few minutes, and it would be silly to say that I never looked back after that. But it would be even sillier to downplay the mark that it left, the boost that it gave me at that point in my career as a business and technology journalist. Others have said it better, but I’ll tack mine on anway: RIP, Mr. Jobs. You will be missed.

jennydeluxe:

This photograph, taken of Steve Jobs in his living room in 1982, is one of my favorites. At the time he was quoted as saying “This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that’s what I had.”

It’s impressive.

When Steve visited the Times last spring when the iPad first came out, the effect was electric, exactly as Carr describes it. The morning of our meeting, he was already in the building, but we didn’t see him. He waited until we were all seated in a conference room and then he made his entrance. Not one second sooner. I was too nervous to ask too many questions, but at the end of the conversation, I hesitated, then walked over to shake his hand and say hello.

I wasn’t even a year into my job at the paper and I felt shy, anxious, unsteady. Unworthy of being included in that room. Steve was thin, thinner than we expected, but even so, his eyes were flinty, sharp and curious, his lips curving into a mischievous half-smile. I introduced myself and his ears perked up. “I’ve read your stuff,” he said. “It’s good!” It was a tiny moment in time, lasting no longer than a few minutes, and it would be silly to say that I never looked back after that. But it would be even sillier to downplay the mark that it left, the boost that it gave me at that point in my career as a business and technology journalist. Others have said it better, but I’ll tack mine on anway: RIP, Mr. Jobs. You will be missed.

College Info Geek is… taking off?

I suppose this is as good a time as any to update this fledgling Tumblr account. As most of what goes through my head ends up on College Info Geek, this is more of an outlet for personal musings. Of course, if those personal musings are about College Info Geek, then the fact that this site is a separate entity become irrelevant. 

Anyway, I’d just like to say that College Info Geek seems to be taking off. Since Andrew hasn’t really written much lately, and since I do everything that doesn’t involve writing on the site, I’ll attribute these accomplishments to myself… I know, selfish. Really, Andrew did contribute a lot. He wrote an excellent dual-booting guide, and really fleshed out the mobile section of the site. I hope he comes back once he gets settled into Denver, because he’s done a pretty fantastic job. To have a good blogging partner for almost a year - and to have it be the first person I asked - is pretty awesome.

On to the goods. This month, I was featured on LifeHacker, became part of the Adobe Student Influencers Program, and was offered to partner with NSCS’ Talk Nerdy 2 Me blog. I also was accepted to be a writer at Stepcase Lifehack. Never in a million years did I think stuff like this would happen when I started the site last June. My main goal was to just build up a writing portfolio that would impress employers. Now, I want to make this my life (somehow). 

I guess that’s all I have to write about right now. Back to writing my first book. ;)

This video is simply amazing. Makes me want to go there even more.

Guy Kawasaki on enchantment. Didn’t think I’d watch the entire hour, but it was really good! I especially enjoyed the bit about saying “I know you would do the same for me” rather than “You’re welcome” in response to thanks.

How to Spend Tons of Money and Justify It

I want books. I want tons and tons and tons of books - so many that I’ll need to to buy or build a new bookshelf to hold them all. My Amazon Wish List is bursting at the seems right now and I’m only adding more. Time to prune it a bit. Time to start hastily making less-than-rational justifications for spending money!

Today marks the start of Spring Break. I have a large list of things to do during the next week, including:

  • Get all text content on the Cactus Jack site
  • Get started on the report speech for Sp Cm 312
  • Get started on the final project for MIS 331
  • Go do some photography around campus, including self-portraits to create a new avatar possibly
  • Write a couple articles - probably the mass-gaining article and works of fiction article
  • Write a guest post for HackCollege
  • Finish The Personal MBA and write a review
  • Finish the “100 links” post

Notice that “go to work” is not on the list. So we can, for the moment, assume that I was not planning on going to work and thus not planning on making any money during Spring Break whatsoever.

Current week balance: $0

Now that we have that astounding figure established, it’s time to figure out what I want. Let’s just create a simple, most likely non-comprehensive list:

  • Personal Development for Smart People - $10.85
  • Escape from Cubicle Nation - $10.38
  • Accidental Genius - $11.53
  • Print-on-Demand Publishing - $13.71
  • Rework - $12.42
  • How to Win at College - $7.63
  • Been There Should’ve Done That - $7.24
  • The Lord of the Rings 50th Anniversary Edition Leather Bound - $56.35
  • The Know-It-All - $10.20
  • The Adventures of Johnny Bunko - $10.20

Total cost of books: $150.51. 

Current week balance: -$150.51 - sad face.

So, since I assumed I wouldn’t work, that means if I do work, that money I make is totally spendable with no guilt attached! I make $9.25 an hour, so after taxes let’s just say I make $7.50. That’s a complete and utter guess, but let’s just run with it. If I wanted to buy all those books, I’d need to work approximately 20 hours next week.

Not sure if I want to put in that many hours, but I could probably pull off 10. So I could buy almost everything but the LoTR book and a couple others. Let’s get to it!