Scott Adams on Egos

“You need a healthy ego to endure the abuse that comes with any sort of success. The trick is to think of your ego as your goofy best friend who lends moral support but doesn’t know shit.”

Safari Tip: Search in Google in New Tab

Safari has this handy feature where you can select a word and right click to bring up a contextual menu, one of whose options is “Search in Google.” Trouble is, you lose whatever page you were browsing to the new Google search.

Well, the engineers at Apple thought of that, and if you have tabbed browsing enabled, just hold down the Command key when selecting this item, and your Google search will happen in a new tab behind the current tab.

Philip Greenspun on Real Estate

“The most boring parts of a property owner’s personality are those which relate to his or her ownership of real estate.”