Michael Doornbos

Archive for March, 2009

11 Mar, 2009

Why is Evernote asking to be paid bad?

Posted by: mike In: Think| annoying| twitter

One of my most used programs is Evernote.  I use it all day, every day.  From my Mac, my Ubuntu boxes, my Blackberry and my iPod touch.  I’m a premium user which costs me $45/year.  A reasonable price to me.
Last night, they updated the Mac client to include a small ad box in the lower [...]

11 Mar, 2009

Evadot

Posted by: mike In: Cool Stuff

I launched a new site: Evadot.com yesterday. Check it out, let me know what you think and tell your friends.

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I’ve been doing a lot of writing lately. I gave myself a deadline of today to finish an article I’ve been thinking of for a week and spent the whole day having writers block.
As soon as I walked out the door to pick up our Chinese takeout for the evening, 100 ideas came swarming [...]

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06 Mar, 2009

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-06

Posted by: mike In: twitter

At an RV show today #
“CBS Beams ‘Star Trek’ Episodes to iPhones”: http://bit.ly/11Hk04 (via @motionblur) in reply to motionblur #
There goes my sunday: http://www.2600online.com/ #
RT @whitelabelspace: China to Launch Space Station in 2010: http://tr.im/gU0q #
restless #
RT @tferriss: “Freedom” disables networking on a Mac for up to 8 hours. Get some real work done: http://ping.fm/uxJjE #
“Freedom” [...]

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03 Mar, 2009

A little perspective

Posted by: mike In: Quotes| Think

Here’s a quote I overheard this week about the economy in the US:
“You have to close your laptop because you can’t stand to look at your retirement fund any more.”
Let’s think about this for a second. This one sentence is very indicative of many of the situations I hear people in. This sentence [...]



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