Friday, September 03, 2010

Music for Entering or Staying in “The Zone”

The zone.  It’s that special place where you find the ability to intensely focus and compress large workloads or complex tasks.  Good music can help, whether its classical, inspirational, ambient, or just familiar.  I often listen to music with no vocals to minimize the distractions surrounding my cubicle.

Here are a few oft-played tracks on my system courtesy of Grooveshark as an example:

I also listen to SomaFM – you should be able to find channels there for your particular taste, such as:

Groove Salad
Space Station Soma
Mission Control
Lush
Suburbs of Goa
Drone Zone
Underground 80s

Sometimes you want to listen to a specific track immediately.  The GrooveSelect and Search GrooveShark bookmarklets will instantly cue it up.

Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Thermal Reactor > Fast Reactor: August CTO Breakfast Notes

“We can build self-controlling reactors.”

YouTube - Thorium Remix 2009 - LFTR in 25 Minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHdRJqi__Z8

The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor: What Fusion Wanted To Be
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHs2Ugxo7-8


Kynetx Demo from Sam Curren – Holy Personal Data Stores!


UTOSC (Utah Open Source Conference) 2010 - October 7-9, 2010
http://utosc.com/


The Future of UI
http://blog.ted.com/2010/06/01/drive_3d_data_w/


AppInventor
http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/


Blue Ant T1 Bluetooth Headset – Scott Lemon is converted to this headset model.
http://www.myblueant.com/products/headsets/t1/index.php#video


Swype text input for Android phones – heavily endorsed by Sam.
http://swypeinc.com/

Hope to see you at the next CTO Breakfast!