Archive for the ‘Top Tips’ Category
The key to life from Will Smith – profound
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Incredibly motivating video presentation
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Randy Pausch is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University and is presenting this video about “Achieving your childhood dreams”. Anyone who has had dreams of success should watch. It’s a long (1:16hr) but an incredible story. Randy has since died of pancreatic cancer which is a significant loss to the world.
Annoying Disk Activity on Windows Vista
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008I’ve been annoyed for some time by the periodic (and frequent) bouts of inexplicable disk activity on my Windows Vista machine.
A big thank you to www.mydigitallife.info which correctly suggests that this is caused by a Windows Service called SuperFetch. SuperFetch probably provides some performance gains on systems which are always left on by pre-loading frequently used files into memory when the system isn’t doing anything else.
My system is rebooted somewhat frequently so SuperFetch not only annoys me but is also wearing out my hard drive with it’s constant disk activity.
To disable SuperFetch simply go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services. Right click on SuperFetch, select properties and set the start up type to “Manual”, then click “Stop”.
Enjoy the peace 
The awesome blog of someone walking to the North Pole
Sunday, March 30th, 2008An attempt to set a new world speed record from Ward Hunt Island to the Geographic North Pole by Ben Saunders. The current record was set in 2005 by a guided team using dog sleds and numerous re-supplies in a time of 36 days 22 hours. Ben ’s expedition will be solo and unsupported and on foot. Currently he’s only a few days in to a 30 day journey.
6 Principles for Creating New Things
Thursday, March 20th, 2008I agree with Paul Grahams 6 principles for making new things.
I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems (c) that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.
I particularly agree with (a) creating simple solutions but even more so with (c) solving problems that actually need to be solved.
It’s amazing how often complex solutions create more problems than they solve and / or completely miss the underlying problem.
Unlocking a Nokia 3310 for free
Thursday, January 10th, 2008I’ve just used the following web site to unlock my Pay as you Go Virgin Mobile Nokia 3310 so that I can use it on my O2 monthly contract.
The web site and unlocking instructions are easy to use (and free) and the unlock worked with no problems.
If you want to unlock your Nokia phone, I highly recommend using the following link
Unlock your Nokia phone