Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath

The book Decisive by Chip and Dan Heath is an excellent read. As a reminder, WRAP stands for Widen your options. Reality-test your assumptions. Attain distance before deciding. Prepare to be wrong.

PP4S

For anyone looking at learning Pascal/Object Pascal, Pascal Programming for Schools (PPS) is a great introductory training web site.  It has excellent tutorials, resources and challenges.

Send to Kindle for PC

I’m not sure how long Amazon had provided the send to kindle application but being able to right click or print from Windows directly to one’s Kindle (or iPad) is pretty cool.

Adblock Plus Chrome Plugin

Chrome is now my primary browser, and Adblock Plus is an amazing open source plugin to block browser-based advertisements.  It’s interesting that Google, a company that makes money selling ads, keeps Adblock Plus in the chrome web store.

Momentum for Chrome

Momentum is an elegant plug-in for Google’s Chrome browser that reminds you to stay focused when starting a new browser tab.  It’s a very simple reminder that you probably have something better to do than surf the web.

A happy doodle

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” ― Will Rogers

HTTrack Website Copier

HTTrack is a very handy open source website downloader the offline browsing.  It follows links and downloads all html, images, css, and javascript.  Plus, HTTrack will create nice summary index page of the downloaded sites.