I go through these cycles of collection and purging in my office. Between spare computers and displays to random extra office supplies, I end up with a marginally cluttered work area from time to time. (My idea of cluttered is…
Blog Archives
Book A Month – January 2009
I’d been thinking about how best to re-implement my church’s web site and wondered if blogging would be a useful tool or not. I’ve always been a big proponent when it’s the right fit, but my church isn’t that big or that technologically advanced; it would be a big step for them. I’m still not sure it’s the right time, but I’m going to put the tools in place to let them get started when and if they decide it’s the right next step. The Blogging Church helped me to put some ideas about blogging and its ministry applicability into better perspective. It was an excellent read, and certainly a very timely one as I’d just started the rebuild project when I received the book.
iTunes Playlist Export
One of my long-time gripes with iTunes is that the only ways to export its playlists are to text and xml which aren’t particularly useful by themselves. I’ve been doing more processor- and memory-intensive work on my laptop lately, and…
Cygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)
In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a “Command Prompt Here” item to Windows’ right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds of opening cmd.exe and…
Newseum: Today’s Front Pages
The other day, I caught a post on Signal Vs. Noise about using Automator in OS X to grab your favorite newspaper’s front pages from Newseum as PDFs and join them. This sounded like a great idea, so I set…
Home Backup Project – Part 7: Four Months Later
About four months ago, I set out to fix a looming technology problem at home, having no solid backup strategy. After some arguably un-scientific research, I came up with a solution which has given me a decent amount of the…
General Task Collection Triggers
I mentioned task collection as a GTD concept in my post about the Second Quadrant of the Time Management Matrix. I find this to be an utterly invaluable experience, and even MORE valuable when done on a regular basis. The…
Hanging Folder Binder Clip Hack
I ran across this simple binder clip hack over at LifeHacker, submitted by one of their readers. I’m humbled by the simplicity and have duplicated these efforts. This is also quite useful for keeping the spare folders sequestered in the…
The Time Management Matrix
Several years ago I was required to take a two-week seminar on Steven Covey’s 7 Habits for Highly Effective People. I’ve forgotten almost all of it, which is what happens when you don’t put something into practice and stick with…
Useful Tools
I’m somewhat of a tools guy when it comes to my computing environment. I like apps that make my life easier and extend my operating environment beyond what was originally intended. In my previous job, I was one of the…
