darkmethod

Agreed. Iteration shouldn't be frowned upon. I applaud any efforts to make what was once a drudgery, now semi-interesting.

op. Thanks for sharing this.

"If the definition of letting them be kids is shutting off the TV, on sunny days pushing them out the door to go play in the dirt, and on rainy days taking them to the library..."

I push my kids outside on the rainy days too. Of course, I make sure they are sufficiently dressed for the occasion.

Finding fun in the mundane is rewarding on many levels. Having a companion during these moments can cause these episodes of fun to turn into life long positive memories.

Evernote is a fine tool to retain content for later retrieval.

I use http://www.evernote.com/about/download/web_clipper.php and later add additional comments where needed.

I also use a pocket size Moleskine to keep ideas/thoughts/daily-journals. Some of my coworkers/friends refer to it as my Dr Jones journal.

My wife and I have found similar results as an experiment with three of our children (yes, experiment) progressively allowing more screen time per child at a younger age. We have found that attention span alone is inversely proportional to the amount of screen time allowed.

We now limit to just 1/2 hour per day per child in a family of iphones, ipads, itv, laptops, kindle, etc.

As a result, our oldest who collectively has as much screen time as our youngest is into reading/writing, drawing and someday soon I intend to get her writing some code. Of course, your millage may very, and I'm not quick to judge others when it comes to parenting. Not an easy task.

Not to rain on your parade. Shoeboxed* does this type of thing already. I am currently using their limited trial. http://www.shoeboxed.com/receipts-for-taxes/ I'm not sure how you would differentiate yourself. You might have in mind other ways to tackle this problem.

You have an excellent idea and the space ripe for disruption because I for one dislike receipt management for expenditures. It is a necessary evil.

*I'm in no associated with any of the above.

My first experience with a computer was on an Apple ][. And I'm typing this using my iMac over 30 years later. Good memories.

My life (childhood, education, and career) have been touched in tremendously powerful way by this man and his passion.

RIP Steve.

My initial reaction, "trust is going to be an issue."

Besides that, my first search attempt "www.domainsdoneright.com" brought up as unavailable for the TLDs com net and org. However using "domainsdoneright" brought up com as unavailable, net and org as available. I didn't check for accuracy using whois. Regardless, these results on your app should be consistent. You're going to need to filter for these alternate inputs.

I picked up a paper route when I was 12. At 14, I ended up taking on three more routes then promptly hired some neighborhood friends to run all four, all for nickles and dimes per house. Realized then that "free money" is the best kind.

I made a bunch of icons in Paint when I was 18. Sold them for $20 in AOL chat rooms. Received checks by mail. Looking back, it was a lot of hustle / border-line spam for little return.

Started two companies since then. Mostly consulting, freelancing, web programming, etc.

I agree. 6,958,517 "likes" (at the time of my writing) may be perceived as a successful campaign by those who initiated the "like wall" as well as other marketers. Which some may use as fuel to do the same. Which is as you said a "complete misunderstanding" of social media.

Thanks for sharing.

It is fun to watch a piece of history in the making. Very interesting.

Excellent topic. I wish him well.

As a former guild leader in World of Warcraft I can state that yes indeed it takes a certain level of finesse to get a group of 40 volunteers (out of 100+ members) motivated to accomplish an already pre established goal defined by Blizzard. The game has incentives already built into it and the formation of a guild is relatively easy process. WoW is truly gamification at its finest which is used as the primary motivator.

It was a lot of fun. But it was a huge time sink. So much so that to say it was distracting would not accurately describe it.

Word of warning: if you don't play it, don't start. Time is a valuable commodity which you can't earn back once it is spent. There are other ways to learn leadership/soft skills that are more productive.

The following line from the article in question leads me to believe that he did not purchase the second laptop from the same store.

"I returned that laptop to the store where I bought it and bought a higher Samsung model (R540) from another store."

I will wait for confirmation/proof in either direction before drawing any conclusion regarding possible "defamation" on the authors part.

Are there alternate yet equally as effective measures than what has been discussed? If so I'd like to hear more.

As for the mod itself. I just tried it on my 555 and I noticed only a subtle difference. As odd as it may be, I think I prefer the foam.

As for Sennheiser's strategy to cripple the product line to handle a different marketing segment; it reminded me of a Steve Blank's post. http://steveblank.com/2009/04/16/supermac-war-story-7-buildi...