The Cult of Done Manifesto

I want to join this cult:

http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html

The Cult of Done Manifesto

1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
3. There is no editing stage.
4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.
5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
7. Once you're done you can throw it away.
8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.
9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
11. Destruction is a variant of done.
12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
13. Done is the engine of more.

Amen!

Norty

Here is a link for all my pal who know my mate, Norty...

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/entertainment/blogs/the-lost-boys/2287212/The-initiators

Head Tracking for VR using a standard screen.

Hey this is a nice example of how to use our existing components for 3D goodness.




Nice one Jonny Lee.

Java magic trick

http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2008/07/magic_trick_in_java.html

Can you solve this one?

My time at JTeam

Hey everyone. Now that I am back in NZ and looking for employment, I have been thinking about my work last year at JTeam.



First and foremost: I had a great working year, and I really enjoyed working with all the team at JTeam! The guys made me very welcome - I managed to learn lots of new stuff, as well as maybe leave a little behind. I contributed to some RFPs, pitched JTeam solutions directly to customers, as well as actually developing web applications.

Oh and I also bitched about Flash lots ...



At the end of a hard years work, I got this lovely box of treats for (early) Christmas. The Dutch have a cunning way to get Christmas twice per year: in addition to Dec 25 with Santa Claus, they also have Sinterklaas. He shows up Dec 5th giving presents and chocolates shaped of letters, and is suspiciously similar to Santa. Check the link for details.You know what they say about gift horses, so thanks Sinterklaas!



The crew from JTeam also all went out for an excellent Christmas dinner. I can't remember specifics, but the conversation (and wine) was top notch... It snowed outside as we dined, and I had to cycle home. Still, it was a genuine white Christmas, something us antipodeans don't see much of.

In short, I had a great time living in Holland! The Dutch seem to think that New Zealand is nothing but a country full of sheep. Its not true, we are as modern as any other western country in the world. Here is a picture of me in the middle of Auckland City.



The funny thing is that I'm not joking, this really is in the central part of our biggest city, Auckland. Check street view out on this link: Google maps link



This is my home computer, great to have it all setup again: 20" 1600x1200 LCD with my Behringer speakers.. mmmm!



And for those Dutchies who wanted to know what products are available here in NZ, here is an European section of a supermarket. Some supermarkets also sell stuff like stroopwafels and hagelslag.

TerrorBite

Look whos got a new disk.. cheap and BIG!

Update:

New domain:

Hey subscribers;

I have pointed my own domain to this blog, so the new link is

http://blog.toolman.geek.nz

RSS: http://blog.toolman.geek.nz/feeds/posts/default

The old location should redirect anyway. Update them readers!

Augmented reality: Like this one!

This is a great experimental invention - truly augmented reality...



.. at the cost of having a projector (aka beamer, Dutchies) strapped on to yourself.

I really like how it could augment real products; thats the holy grail for augmentation, and a source of plenty of revenue if successful.

The next challenge is getting quality information to the device. Control of the information used in this system, one it grew to mobile handset scales, would be powerful. Hopefully open systems such ala wikipedia would ensure sane community control of the public data.

What will products compete on? Consumer weighting of metrics, as offered on augmentation device:

• price (Current favorite ;)
  
• carbon footprint
  
• eco factor - packaging, manufacture etc.
  
• rating/score/desiriability in demographics you care about
  
• Loyalty scheme incentives
• ...
  

That seems like raw capitalism - the machine knows your weightings of many metrics, and always offers you the optimal choice.

Decisions would (mostly) be that of the Economists' ideal consumer: rational decision makers trying to maximize their benefits and minimize their costs. I say "mostly" because you don't have to take your handsets advice, do you :P ?

... Beamer on board ...

Thanks to Alef for the link.