Entries from July 2007 ↓

I opened Endnote 9 on my Mac the other day and realized why I hardly ever use it.  I want to add another column to the main display so I can have more information on the screen, but that feature is only available in version 10, and it will cost me $100 to upgrade.  I’ve [...]

According to a story on LifeHacker, Jerry Seinfeld once offered a young comic some excellent advice on writing and motivation:
“[Seinfeld] told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.
He said [...]

My most important task today was arranging an interview with an imam I met in June at ISAM.  I had been meaning to contact him for a while, but I didn’t realize until today that emailing him wasn’t the next action.  Once I sorted out what needed to be done first, I added the tasks [...]

I’m flattered that Jim Gibbon.com was included on WhitePapers.org’s Personal Productivity Required Reading List: 100 Kick-butt Lifehacking Blogs.  The author has done a great job breaking the list into categories and provides helpful summaries for all the sites, quite a few of which were new to me.  (One blog that I’ll be subscribing to is [...]

I went with my in-laws to the polls today to watch them vote.  We joked about me being an international observer, but I said we shouldn’t let anyone know I’m a foreigner, especially an American, because it would only encourage more people to vote for the nationalist parties.
The scene at the local high school resembled [...]

Ahhh, Turkish politics.  The only nice thing you can say is that the campaign season here is mercifully short, lasting no more than a month.  How ’bout that as a model for campaign reform?
Elections are this Sunday and if you’d like a taste of what’s doing down, check out this short report in today’s New [...]

In my Top 5 productivity tips of 2006, I wrote that mindfulness meditation can be an effective way to derail self-defeating thoughts and chip away at perfectionism.  This post over at Pick the Brain helps extend the case for meditation by pointing out the following benefits:

Improved concentration
Less worrying over trivial things
Better health
Increased knowledge of self

The [...]