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A long long time ago (8 years) three crazy people started a project called Zappata. I was one of them. It started as a super RSS reader (RSS bring hot new technology) and morphed into a peer to peer email server that used authentication via its own implementation of DNS servers with a Public Key Infrastructure, encryption but still was usable by just using a regular email client. Sadly, it never got of the ground - you can - if you are interested - read some of the things I have written about Zappata in the past. ...

As you may have seen in my post about habits I am practicing guitar daily (and have been doing for a bit over a year now). This is not my first go at playing music, I have a long (and unsuccessful) history behind me. The last year I studied guitar basics: Open chords, simple strumming, gradually moving towards more complicated stuff. I would consider myself a beginning intermediate player now. I can accompany many songs, I can do 16th strumming, solo over a blues or over a G major song (Wish you were here), have started with some fingerpicking and am revising the “jazz chords”. ...

Notice the size of the scroll bar to the right…. [caption id=“attachment_12106” align=“aligncenter” width=“300”] Spam Comment of the day[/caption]

Yesterday saw the Mobino team work a 16 hour day to release another iOS version of the Mobino application. What took us so long? An incredible amount of attention to detail. For good or for bad, JF (the CEO of Mobino) has an incredible attention to detail. Every word is judged, every pixel and color investigated. And those are the easy things. Submitting an app to JF for QA brings us bug reports that leave the development team either shaking our heads in disbelief or banging them on the nearest hard, flat surface. ...

It seems (and I have not done any kind of research on this topic) that the “approved” way of learning things or learn to do things, is to form habits. Starting a habit is easy - everyone that has tried to live through a new years resolution knows that - but ingraining a habit is quite difficult) There are apps (of course there are apps) that can help you - I stumbled upon lift. ...

Readers of this blog (there might be a few left) might have noted, that I haven’t blogged much the last months / years. I spend most of my online time on Twitter ( @jcfischer ) and the rest of the time I tend to work - Mobino is the company I have co-founded with J.F. Groff. and I’m acting and working as CTO. We are building a (nay, the) mobile payment system for 5 billion people, and I can tell you, it’s a ride. ...