Blogs seem to need titles and taglines. This feels perfectly natural to me. What weblogs don’t need are bad titles and taglines. (Let’s suppose for the sake of argument that mine isn’t one of them.) Please, if you must blog(v.), refrain from any combination of the following…
Musings – Musing implies thought, and let’s be honest, most of us skip that part and get right to it.
Random – or any of its derivatives
I now buy all of my music on CD. For a while iTunes was cool and buying music with one click was fun, but then Apple started doing that change the rule thing. Besides, used CDs are cheaper than buying one from Apple and I can rip them into any format I choose and do whatever I like with them. This is good.
Mark Cuban explains why I don’t have much more time to do things this way.
I think Paul Giamatti may well be the best actor working today – or at least my favorite. And unless I’m mistaken he wasn’t even nominated for an Oscar. Well that’s crap. He should’ve won for American Splendor and he should’ve won for Sideways. You may have guessed that I just finished watching Sideways. It’s well after midnight and I’m going to go back right now and watch it again. Maybe twice.
I have a little Olympus Stylus Epic which I take nearly everywhere. It seems to have developed a crack or chip somewhere which is showing itself as a dark hairline at the edge of every frame. I like the camera so much that I started looking for another one. Of course in the process I discovered the Olympus XA. Now this is a pocketable point and shoot. 6 element fixed 2.
From the always brilliant 43Folders, Merlin brings us April Power Hacks
For example:
When people ask you how you’re doing, it’s okay to say “Great! How about you?� They’ll probably have some kind of response, though, so be ready. and
13. If you don’t like the song that’s playing on your stereo, you can put a different one on. This goes for television too, but with pictures.
From Jason Fried of 37 Signals…
“Next, you need to tell your client to pick two. We’ve all heard “Pick two: good, fast, or cheap.â€? Dealing with client projects is no different. Your client needs to pick two: fixed scope, fixed timeframe, or fixed budget. Having all three is a myth. Pick three and you’ll end up with a lot of unsatisified people and subpar results.”
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Being a huge fan of outliners, I’ve pretty much tried them all. OmniOutliner is about the best of them, but is a little too twitchy for my taste. If you like outliners but wish they would manage larger amounts of text or include a better search engine or basically just feel better, look no further than Hog Bay Notebook
Here’s a screenshot of a (seriously pruned) version of the notebook I use for managing my GTD tasks…
David Foster Wallace books tend to take a very long time for me to finish. Infinite Jest took almost a year. After just 2 short months, I finally finished his latest book of short stories, Oblivion, and am relieved, if not exactly satisfied. This guy just throws the fastest, most convoluted shitload of words at the reader that when it’s not dizzying it approaches painful. Here’s a short sentence…
‘‘Many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person’s life are ones that flash through your head so fast that fast isn’t even the right word, they seem totally different from or outside of the regular sequential clock time we all live by, and they have so little relation to the sort of linear, one-word-after-another-word English we all communicate with each other with that it could easily take a whole lifetime just to spell out the contents of one split-second’s flash of thoughts and connections, etc.
I want a purse. Or rather, a Man-Bag. With summer approaching, two Moleskins, phone, pen(s), camera and whatnot becomes a bit too much to lug around. This Buyer’s Guide to Man-Bags seems like a good place to start, but I’m open to suggestions.
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