Written by Just reread this article from Jim Collins. If your life is busy (and most of us can relate), then you should take a minute to read this. A Stop Doing List by Jim Collins (author of Good to Great)
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The One Minute Manager
With all of this talk and thinking about training and education – bringing people to a point where they can learn things and then teach others the same thing – I thought I should probably do some reading on it. I happened to be skimming through Dave Ramsey‘s recommended reading list, and I wrote down [...]
READ MORE »My First Moleskine
I’m trying to make more time for quick posts in 2008, so this will be my first. As one of my Christmas gifts, Marie got me just what any true nerd would want: the highest-quality acid-free paper you can find marked off in square grids, bound by fine leather with a braided place holder, inner [...]
READ MORE »Launchy 2.0
My favorite shortcut application, Launchy, just released version 2.0. It’s got a few nice updates, and a slick new default skin. If you’ve never heard of Launchy or used it, give it a try. It will save you a buttload of time. Launchy
READ MORE »Google Maps Updates
Googles Maps has made some great updates lately. Two that are extremely useful are the ability to drag your route to modify it and the ability to add a location to your directions if you don’t know the address but do know where it’s located on the map. To show you these new features, Google [...]
READ MORE »RocketDock
Since I mentioned a handy little tool that I’ve grown to love last time, I figured I’d give you one more. RocketDock is a slick little [free] app that gives you some added organization and productivity. Here’s what their website has to say about it: RocketDock is a smoothly animated, alpha blended application launcher. It [...]
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Just a quick post to mention a tool that I have come to love. Launchy is a free windows utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can launch your documents, project files, folders, [...]
READ MORE »PearBudget and Wesabe.com
Right now I have a handful of things that I’ve been meaning to post about for a while but just haven’t. This is one of them. We’ve been sort of redoing our budget and diligently tracking our spending lately since we’re new homeowners and whatnot (trying to stay on top of the game), and being [...]
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I meant to post on this a while back, and I just forgot. Several weeks ago, a friend of mine was having some computer problems, and I really didn’t have time to drive down and take a look at it for him, so I remembered a handy little app that I had run across a [...]
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Wow. I’m impressed. Back in November, I posted about installing ActiveCollab so that we could try it out for our planning for Apex and the “new” website. Well, it’s now February, and we’re still using it. I think we’re all hooked on it, which is exactly what I was hoping for. Here are some of [...]
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