I'm doing 26 things
I’d bumped into portable Firefox and portable Thunderbird before, and played with them a bit. I’ve just bumped into http://www.portableapps.com/ and realized that I can have a more or less full suite of the tools that I use most, on a USB flash drive, that I carry with me. Really want to see how well this works!
waitak's Life List
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1. find out how much God loves me
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2. build a $10 handheld for the poor
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3. build an 8Mb Linux distribution
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4. carry and use a USB drive with a set of portable apps
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5. give away a million dollars to charity
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6. care for the poor
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7. pray more
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8. live in Hawaii
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9. learn Esperanto
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10. learn Portuguese
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11. learn Indonesian
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12. Learn Ilocano
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13. learn Tagalog
1 cheer520 people -
14. speak better Cantonese
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15. speak mandarin fluently
1 cheer49 people -
16. speak German better
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17. build an earth sheltered home
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18. live sustainably
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19. live off the grid
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20. brew my own beer
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21. pay off my mortgage
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22. play the Xaphoon well
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23. play the ocarina well
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24. cook quinoa
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25. eat grain amaranth
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26. start a container garden
1 cheer8 people
Recent entries
Computers exist at a price point because
- Companies that make them can make money at that price, because
- People will spend that much
So what if you start with a different optimization criterion? What if you try to push Moore’s law the other way, and build, say, something with roughly the computational power of a Palm V for as little as you can? $10, say? It’s technically possible.
One person in four lives on US$1 a day or less. So a $10 computer is two weeks wages. I’d love to contribute to a computer that would help that 25% of the world find their way out of poverty.
I’m slowly learning that the whole point of everything is for us to learn how much God loves us. I’ve only just realized that one of the most fundamental verses in the Bible doesn’t say what I read it as… I thought “God is love” meant something like “God loves” or “God is loving”. Doesn’t say that. Man, do I have a lot to learn.
