Optimality!

My dream is to find a very customizable alarm clock that is functional and also looks good. I have tried a few, researched a lot, and three years ago I found one which is near perfect but still leaves a few things to be desired.
Here is a list of the things I am looking for:

Authoring my first movie in iMovie took quite some time for three reasons, first because I didn’t know the program, second, because I didn’t have a fine tuned workflow, and last not least, because it was footage from my wedding, so of course I wanted it perfect, so I went back many times to redo [...]

Tags: iMovie

Yesterday I saw an article in AAA news quoting that the number of traffic deaths in the US went up in 2005. Some time ago I heard on the German Tagesschau news that the number of traffic deaths in Germany went down in 2005. A few years ago news about a decline in German traffic [...]

Starting point: The movie has been properly edited in iMovie and now you want to share it with friends and family. What’s the quickest and easiest way?

A brief introduction to the workflow category. The goal is to record a series of steps that has proven useful for a task at hand. I don’t know about you, but I spend way too much time figuring out how to do any particular task in the best possible way, i.e., spending time in order [...]

You may have guessed it, I am using Mac OS X, but life wasn’t always that good. Hard to believe that a little more than two years ago all I knew about Apples was that they only have a single button mouse (how awful) and that the menu bar of every program is always at [...]

As the tagline says, it is the quest for optimality in an imperfect world. Will the quest ever end? Probably not. What is it all about? Discussing life around us to see how it could be made better, this can include anything from improvement ideas, to workflows, to, to, to … you name it.