Entries from May 2008 ↓

I do a moderate amount of blog reading, and I thought I would share my system of reading.
Software
Firefox. This browser, the pioneer of multiple tabs, is extensible through add-ons.
Google Reader. I like the interface on this reader, and the ability to star things for later reference.
Read It Later. This Firefox extension makes it easy to [...]

It’s the ultimate in laziness, I suppose. But there are nights when I don’t want to walk into our office to shutdown the workstation in there. I might have my laptop downstairs, or outside, or in my room, and I just don’t want to have to go through the hassle of doing a manual shutdown.
So [...]

I knew the day would come when I would run out of material for my PDA software reviews. It’s not that it’s not out there. There are millions of titles I haven’t tried. The problem is that unless I am looking for software to meet a specific need, I don’t want to take the time [...]

One of the problems of being technologically advanced is keeping up with all the information that is thrown at us. We store information in different places, and suddenly, we don’t know which is the most up to date. In order to minimize confusion, in GTD terms, we need to limit our in boxes.
When I first [...]

A great article over at Lifehack.org, called “8 Ways To Be Ruthless With Your Time”, had some great tips on how to get more control over your time. I didn’t necessarily agree with all of them, but rather than comment on the post, I decided to take it up here.
Points of Agreement
There are some points [...]

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer

A few months ago, Lifehacker ran an article that outlined how you can “Retrieve Any File on Your Home Computer by Email”. I thought the concept was nice, but let it go because it was for Macs. More recently, there was an article “Retrieve Any File on Your Home Computer via Email, Windows Edition” which [...]

You are about to step into a meeting with the visiting vice-president, and you realized that you have spilled coffee down your shirt, and you are missing a button. Then you walk into the meeting, to find out that the in-floor power receptacle is still under its screwed down cover, and the headache kicks in.
A [...]