Entries from December 2007 ↓

I have two small geeky gifts to share with you this Christmas.
1.  Via Lifehacker:
David Allen has a zipped archive of 17 articles available to download for free at the David Allen Company online store. Whether you’re a die-hard GTDer or just use certain portions of the methodology, the articles are a great supplement to the [...]

City officials warn people to sacrifice in approved areas and take care while transporting and restraining animals, but there are three stories that always make the news during Eid ul-Adha:

People sacrificing in public places (non-gory picture) because they didn’t want to wait in line.
“Amateur butchers” injuring themselves (1413 people last year).
Escaped bulls running for their [...]

Tomorrow is the beginning of Eid ul-Adha, or the Feast of Sacrifice, commemorating Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son.  As many of you know, the holiday is celebrated by sacrificing an animal, commonly a sheep or ram and sometimes something larger like a bull.  The butchered meat is then divvied up with one-third given to [...]

The Times has an interesting article summarizing a variety of research projects that use data from Facebook, and I’m predicting this will easily make their most emailed articles list by the end of the day — partly because of growing concern about privacy and Facebook, and partly because Nicholas Christakis, pictured in the article, resembles [...]

Last night my friend Karen flew in from Afghanistan with her friend James for the beginning of two weeks of R & R that will take them to Israel and then back to Turkey for several days before returning to Kabul.  Some of you may be reading Karen’s blog (I mentioned it a few months [...]

I was on top of the world for about 5 minutes tonight when I successfully replaced the defective hard drive in my wife’s iPod mini with a 2GB compact flash memory card, which I learned how to do by following directions in this article:  Turn your iPod mini into a flash-based iPod.
The process is very [...]

Loads of useful time management tips to be found in the free ebook Time Management for Creative People.  Blogger and poet Mark McGuinness has cobbled together advice from some of the biggest productivity gurus — David Allen, Stephen Covey, Mark Forster — into a 32-page ebook that makes a good primer for those seeking time [...]