Finally. May this be the beginning of common sense.

If Guy Kawasaki (yes, the one from the motorcycles) states:

Focus on function, not form. Mea culpa: I love good form. MacBooks, Audis, Graf skates, and Breitling watches.

maybe others will follow and finally wake up.

Read the rest of his post about bootstrapping here.

I followed about 40 blogs until today. It does not take much to realize that causes me to loose a lot of time, especially on a larger period of time.

Be more productive tip #2: press the delete button on some of the blogs you’re following.

Evaluate if they provide information (as in useful information) to you and clearly delete the ones that aren’t. Also, low volume is not a reason to keep them: they will just draw your attention one way or another.

Cut back to less than 20. That seems reasonable, no?

Some I deleted:

• Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen
  Although I like Scott’s writing style a lot, .NET is not my cup of tea anymore.
• Ibuildings Blog
  They post to little useful information (for me, as a developer).
• Small Business Trends
  This was a difficult one. While I really enjoyed reading their posts, it did not contain enough information for me.
• Xaprb
  I just don’t use MySQL in a way Baron blogs about it and realized I probably never will.
• Lifehacker
  You just need too much time to follow all of their posts! Very nice posts though.
• Signal vs. Noise
  This was another difficult one. I love their style but like they say themselves: focus!
• SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog
  Very painful. I also love their style but for various reasons this blog isn’t useful enough for me.
• Redo The Web
  I will probably never use Symfony anyway.
• Eric Bergen
  Just had to cut some more. Sorry Eric!
• Chris Shiflett
  Sorry Chris!

Please note that this represents my opinion about these blogs and the effect on my work. They probably are appropriate to someone else.

Like many people today I can’t code without a dual display setup but I also belong to the ones that feel the force to upgrade drivers and other software on a perfectly working system.

After upgrading my nVidia display drivers to the latest version (175.19) I was losing huge amounts of time dragging maximized windows from one screen to the other. On most systems (as with these latest drivers) this is only possible by first unmaximizing the application and remaximizing it once dragged onto the other screen. However, for some reason I have always been able to just drag maximized windows in the past.

After loosing much more time searching for a solution and trying other options (keyboard shortcuts, nView buttons) I went for the best solution so far: I uninstalled the new drivers and installed older ones again (which I found on the graphics card manufacturers website - version 91.47 to be precise).
The good thing is that everything works like it did before and I can drag maximized windows again.

Hopefully you don’t suffer from the same window maximizing autism like me but please let me know if you do and have a better solution.