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Saturday, May 17th, 2008
my son and me in the fountain. we had a scorcher yesterday.
Quitting The Deferred-Life Plan
Similar to 'Getting Things Done', I feel the author saved the best message for last. At the end of 'Four Hour Work Week', he gives a poem 'Slow Dance' (written by David L Weatherford, a ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Ever since I got my D40, it seems like nearly all my spare time has gone towards learning about it and photography in general. I've noticed a direct correlation in time lost for doing other things (e.g. writing more thoughtful posts). I promise I will write some thoughtful ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
I just posted DOHE#004 in theDoHE.
Happy Mother's Day to all.
What Happened:
For the ump-teenth time in a row, I have waited to the last day to send my mom a mothers day gift. I sent it yesterday (Friday) and there ain't no way it's getting there in 24 hours
Root Cause:
Failure to ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
I went for a bike ride to downtown yesterday. Words can't describe the beauty and energy that was in the air in Portland yesterday.
I did my part to jump start the economy and bought a nice camera. I've always loved taking pictures with my point-and-click ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
I raced through reading GTD. I knew that when I had gotten to the last chapter, entitled 'The Core Principles' - I had wisely moved quickly to the end of the book. In my opinion, the first and last chapters are 99% of the book.
Here's ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Last Friday, I had a spill while skiing and lost my cell phone. I've been cell-phone-less for nearly a week now (which is a lesson in and of itself). I logged the event in theDoHE.
On my commute, I usually stuff my pager, moleskin and wallet into my pockets, ...
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
it's not this thing
One of my favorite authors is Dr. Scott Peck, whose most famous book is 'The Road Less Traveled'. It's through his writing that I first became enchanted with the power of paradox. He basically had written that only once we constrain our freedom through discipline can ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
How would you like to get thrown in jail for no reason?
You may have read about this in the news. There was a US college journalism student, James Carl Buck, that was arrested in Egypt while reporting on a riot. He was shortly freed. His friend ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
In honor of 'Earth Day', I'll give a brief glimpse of my interest in 'the environment'.
In high school, senior year - I opted for an 'experimental' social sciences class which was geared toward what we now call 'sustainability issues'. What I loved about the class is that it was ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
I'm nowhere near ready for it. It'll never be perfect. I'm kidding myself if I think I'm going to be a PHP/Drupal wizard in anytime soon. And I don't want to make the mistake of inaction. So here's a link to my "experiment #2".
I've not at ...
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