When we first started building SETT, I’d sometimes get asked what I was working on. Saying it was a new blogging platform was easy, but when pressed for details on what made it different, I had a tougher time. It’s not that it wasn’t different, or that I didn’t know how it was different. I’d…

For about a year now, I’ve been very punctual. Before making a concerted effort to be on time to everything, I was like any other average person– sometimes on time, often a few minutes late, occasionally very late. When I identify something I’m bad at, especially something with a prescription that requires little more than…

A few days ago I’d heard that my paternal grandfather, Gramps, was diagnosed with Lymphoma and was going to have some tests done to see what treatment was required. Today I woke up and found out via email that he had died. I gather that it wasn’t terribly unexpected to those around him, but it…

I’ve always been obsessed with automation. When I had a house I had automatic robot lawnmowers to mow my lawns and a matrix of motion detectors to control my lights. These days I have a simpler life that doesn’t necessitate such extreme solutions, but I still benefit from automation. There’s a saying among programmers: if…

I think that bitcoins are a big deal. Maybe not this year or next year, but within the next five to ten years, I believe that there’s a good chance that they will revolutionize online financial transactions. So I bought some a few months back with the intention of holding them for many years, selling…

I’m always starting (and ending) new habits and campaigns. I tend to write about them when I first start or first see results, but I’m not always good at follow up. Sometimes, too, the progress isn’t really exciting enough to warrant special mention. Today I thought that I’d follow up on all of those that…

I work to be a perfect writer, a perfect friend, a perfect programmer, a perfect son and brother, a perfect motorcycle rider, and a perfect violinist. I also want to have perfect discipline, be perfect at picking where to focus my energy, and be perfect at things I don’t even know how to do, like…

It’s been a long time since I’ve shared book recommendations, but I’ve been reading a lot and have stumbled upon some great books recently. I normally read non-fiction, but I’ve been integrating some fiction as well. I used to think of it as a less worthy use of time, but I’ve since read that reading…

When I was a freshman in college, MP3s weren’t all that easy to come by. I had about a hundred of them, five of which were Eminem freestyles. His freestyles were amazing, but my favorite was one where a DJ would throw him words like “Peanut Butter” that he had to rhyme a few bars…