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  • Why trust strangers when you can trust your friends.

    Gig­Park is a new social media / word-of-mouth refer­ral web 2.0 and Face­book applic­a­tion (whew!) What all that jar­gon means is that if you’re look­ing for a plumb­er, account­ant, real estate agent or magi­cian you have a con­veni­ent place where you can ask your friends (or their friends). The concept is simple; invite your friends…

  • Did you Get Things Done? Measuring productivity with RescueTime.

    Last time I men­tioned this great little Two Minute timer to help you man­age your GTD Processing. Well, that’s great for when you’re actu­ally hard at work and try­ing to be pro­duct­ive, but what about after­wards — when you want to know just what you spent your time doing (or not doing!). Do you trust your…

  • On time management and GTD

    photo cred­it: jazz­mas­ter­son Lately I’ve been work­ing with a few tools that help me stream­line my vari­ous tasks and work­flows. Over the next few posts, I’ll dive into them and my reas­ons for using them. First off, the Two Minute Timer. If you’ve been been under a rock for the last few years then this ref­er­ence…

  • From the ‘so simple why didn’t I think of it’ category

    A friend of mine poin­ted me to this bril­liant post (via iPhone Cent­ral) The concept is simple; Scan the front and back of all your bar­coded mem­ber­ship cards, and carry them around in your iPhone. To test it out I went to the loc­al hard­ware store and asked the girl behind the counter if she could…

  • It’s tiny, cool, and giving me an administration headache

    Recently we’d picked up an ASUS eee PC as a replace­ment for my ill Com­paq R3200. Well, not really as a replace­ment. You see, any­time we start look­ing into a hard­ware pur­chase, Tess and I review our need for the purchase. To make a long story short, I’m inher­it­ing her cool little Dell M1210, and…

  • New Moo Cards

    It’s about time. I’ve been run­ning low on my last batch of Moo cards, so a couple of weeks ago decided to have a new batch made. I’ve been a little more cre­at­ive, but had to get the dogs in there too. Tech­nor­ati Tags: Moo Cards, Moo, Busi­ness Cards, Social Media, Pho­to­graphy, Brad Gri­er

  • Logitech G15 Keyboard upgrade (v1 — v2)

    After a lengthy email exchange with Logit­ech cus­tom­er sup­port (star­ted Octo­ber 22, 2007), I’ve just received my replace­ment Logit­ech G15 key­board (affil­i­ate link). The key prob­lem (par­don the pun) was that the black paint on a few of the keys was wear­ing off, allow­ing the back­light­ing to shine through obscur­ing any key let­ter­ing. This key­board was…

  • Latest Ubuntu release unleashes my laptop

    As some of you may know, my house­hold serv­er and my age­ing Com­paq Pres­ario R3230CA laptop both run Ubuntu. Well ima­gine my sur­prise when the latest upgrade to Ubuntu (7.04 Feisty Fawn) activ­ated the dormant WiFi hard­ware. Pre­vi­ous Ubuntu ver­sions did­n’t sup­port the Broad­com 802.11g wire­less, but judging from my happy res­ults, the Feisty Fawn…