Work expands to the time allowed (The Endeavour)

Oh Shoot! Another book I want to read. This is starting to be a really big problem. I just don’t have enough time (or money) to read all the books I want to read.

Three algorithms for converting color to grayscale (The Endeavour)

I would have guessed the “average” algorithm for converting an image to grayscale. However, I wouldn’t have guessed the luminosity and lightness methods. It is kinda cool, because of the simplicity of it.

TEDTalks : Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation – Dan Pink (2009) (TEDTalks (hd))

This is an interesting TED Video on how to motivate people. Most employers don’t understand the value of professional development. It is good to work at a company that does. The big issue is to make sure that there is some bounds for this time. If you can do whatever, it is exactly what happens and no real problems are solved.

Link: Let’s make the web faster (warpedvisions.org)

I doubt if any of my web-apps (including the ones at work) require this much optimization. Regardless, I should really learn the nitty-gritty details of web optimization. It would help if I ever got hired by 37Signals.