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Project Management, Priorities, and Office Hours

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Recently, a friend emailed me to ask about GTD. He was tasked with a presentation on project management, and had heard of GTD from my writings and from others. I had good and bad news for him.
The good news is that GTD is an excellent system for keeping your tasks organized. The bad news [...]

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Tags: GTD · Lifehacks

Maintining My Posting Rate

January 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

I had one major New-Year’s resolution (though I had resolved it before then): post to my blog on average once per day. This sounds simple, but I don’t just want one post on each day. I’m happy to let my posting muse cycle between wordlessness and logorrhea. Therefore, if I post three things one [...]

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Tags: Lifehacks · My Code · Tech · Writing

Label Your Power Bricks

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Once upon a time, AC/DC adapters were special — they were made for expensive devices and were clearly labeled as belonging to those devices. No more. Now, every device comes with an adapter, most of them are nothing special, and the adapters are hardly labeled at all. Furthermore, they have mysterious round plugs that (unless [...]

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Tags: GTD · Lifehacks · Tech

Managing Your Reading List With Readeroo and Firefox

January 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments

“I’ll bookmark this to read later.”
Sound familiar? Do you ever actually read it? If you’re like me, probably not. Or, maybe once every two years, at which time you’ve forgotten why you wanted to read half of the things you’ve bookmarked and just delete most of them. Maybe you even put things in Del.icio.us [...]

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Using your phone as an e-Book reader

January 7th, 2008 · No Comments

There has been a lot of buzz lately about the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader — new electronic-paper-based e-book readers that have a variety of features and advantages. Great. However, they’re both expensive. More annoyingly in my mind, they are also an additional device to lug around and keep charged. They will [...]

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Tags: Lifehacks · Open Access · Tech