Category Archives: Education

Git Notes

I have recently taken the plunge into learning Git. These are my notes thus far. I know there are plenty of git write-ups out there on the web. I started this one mostly for myself as a quick cheat sheet. I figure it may be useful to someone so I am sharing it. My typical …

14 June 2011 – 08:42:10 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Programming, Software, Unix/Linux | Tagged |

AWS Free Tier Micro Instance 101

I recently decided to hop on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Free Tier, and see what it was all about. I use regular AWS services at work quite a bit so I am not a newcomer to the AWS world. However, this was my first foray in to the Free Tier offering. I created this …

17 February 2011 – 14:29:20 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, System Administration | Tagged , , , , , |

Z-Type

If you have not seen this already, you have to try it out. It is a typing game. I know, I know, but this one is actually fun. Addicting even! Z-Type by Dominic Szablewski

17 January 2011 – 20:01:25 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Entertainment, Games |

HTML Signatures in Gmail

Last month, Google released rich text signatures for their Gmail product. When I read this I was excited that I may be able to get rid of the plug-in I had been using for this same purpose. While the plugin worked, most of the time, there were times when it did not. I also personally …

04 August 2010 – 12:40:19 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Software | Tagged , , , , |

Killing Sacred Cows

I just started reading this book and already I have found it to be amazing. I am only in chapter two, but if that is all I read of the book it would still be amazing and worth the price. I would suggest this book to everyone. It will change your thoughts about money, wealth, …

16 December 2008 – 08:02:38 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Financial, Reviews | Tagged , , , , , , , |

How to Wake up at 0500 Every Day

I love waking up early. Early for me is 0500. I do that every day. It feels great! Has it always been like this? No. My name is Jonathan, and I am an addict. I am addicted to sleep. Given the choice my body will always choose sleep over waking up. My body is naturally …

16 October 2008 – 07:25:21 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education, Philosophic, Religious | Tagged , , , , , , , |

I read twice as fast!

I have had some people ask me what I thought of the speed reading class I took last week. So I thought I would post my progress here. The quick result is that I can now read twice as fast as I could before I took the one day course. That in itself is amazing …

05 August 2008 – 08:45:24 | By Jonathan | Posted in Education | Tagged , , , |