I reached an epiphany about a year ago that it became clear to me that most of my online activity was a colossal waste of time. So away went all of my tech podcast’s, I unsubscribed to nearly all of my RSS feeds and the hours spent wandering around YouTube happily went away. Also [...]

To lazy to read your email? You’ve always been able to email yourself with a phone call through voice-to-text service Jott, but with the introduction of Jott Feeds, Gmail (and Google Apps) users can now have a summary of their messages read to them by phone. The secret sauce lies in Gmail’s RSS feeds and [...]

How many time management guru’s does it take to get anything done? Watts Humphrey, who retired from IBM in 1980, once led Big Blue’s software development. His group “who had never before made a delivery schedule, did not miss a date for the next two and a half years.” Here is a persuasive list of [...]

The fine folks over at Zen Habits have provided an extensive list of groovy best practices that will help make parents life somewhat easier…like this one.
the moment someone opens a Lego set, the bricks and instructions get dumped into a gallon-size Ziploc freezer bag which I label with the set’s name and number. When it’s [...]

We moved about six months ago from a home we had rented to brand new house of our own and that transition was very traumatic, I think we ended up throwing and giving away more than half the stuff we owned. The house we moved into was actually larger than our old place, but [...]