Two hits from Lifehacker today: Hustle When You Want to Learn New Things and Ira Glass on Getting Creative Work Done. The first is the key to the door, and it’s easy to insert and unlock: Hustle. Simple as that. If you want to do something: do something. If want want to make progress towards [...]
Tagged Fail, Getting Things Done, Hustle, Ira Glass, LifehackerFrom a (sort of) recent Facebook status update: While I agree for the most part with the “Tumblr > Twitter” sentiment, well, that’s kind of obvious. Twitter is definitely good for some things (mostly sharing short fleeting thoughts, but also sometimes for sharing links, and conversing with people who use Twitter as their main form [...]
Tagged Blogging, Diatribes, RSS, Social web, Tumblr, Twitteror: The True Power of RSS On the same day when TechCrunch delivered this piece on the Internet as Robin Hood, I also realized how irrelevant “old media” and/or “the establishment” has become to me personally. What brought me to this realization before I even looked at the TechCrunch article? Vajazzle I am going to [...]
Tagged Basketbawful, Jennifer Love Hewitt, New Media, Newspaper, RSS, VajazzleI’ve never been a huge fan of Kiplinger’s, but they do provide solid advice sometimes. I haven’t been needing as much financial advice (at least not the Hot Stock Top kind the magazines use to fill in around the stuff that’s the same every month) since I finally got most of my stuff automated (and [...]
Tagged Kiplingers, Personal Finance, RetirementCause they’re near-sighted! Get it? Get it? Anyway, if you hadn’t heard (I first spotted it at my non-blood relative with the same last name’s blog), Warner Brothers and Netflix have reached a deal whereby Netflix won’t let people get new release DVDs (or Blu-Ray discs) from them until 28 days after the release of [...]
Tagged Netflix, Streaming Video, Warner BrothersFrom TechCrunch PoketyPoke is a new service that calls you when you have a conference call and connects you automatically. Why it took someone that long to think of and implement this is beyond me. This is like GTD times 80 bazillion. If implemented correctly, you’d never have to remember a conference call again (which [...]
Tagged Conference Calling, PoketyPoke, TechCrunchFrom Read/Write Web. I just still feel like I’m missing something. I can’t get past the fact that Twitter is not a feed reader, yet people insist on using it as one. I mean, if I were following all the people whose feeds I read on Twitter instead of using Google Reader, I don’t feel [...]
Tagged Diatribes, RSS, TwitterWhen October/November rolls around, (aka Meteorological Winter) I go into full Hot Chocolate/Mocha mode. I’m talking about at least one a day. Sometimes as many as three. Now, of course, if I was paying retail rates for that, I’d be broke by the time Spring came again. But, lucky for me, I’ve trained my taste [...]
Tagged Coffee, Mocha, Recipes, Starbucks