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OpenOffice vs MS Word: Which is better?

October 21, 2009

I’ve purchased every edition of MS Office from before Office 95 through Office 2003. I’ve rarely used any of them. They have always been “required” purchases because everyone else uses them. This isn’t “peer pressure” because I don’t really care how other people format documents. Well, maybe it is peer pressure… of the most intense [...]

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The Fear — And Consequences — Of Failure

October 19, 2009

I was walking around the block just a few moments ago, in lieu of actually getting real work done, and my big toe started to twinge. The big toe on my right foot just felt all jammed up. Kind of making me limp a little bit. As it turns out, I jammed this same toe [...]

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Techsmith did it again with Jing Pro… sort of

October 15, 2009

Here’s an excellent snapshot of my emotional state right after I upgraded to Jing Pro. I thought about just not publishing this, because I end up chumping myself worse than Jing Pro, but there are a couple of valid points to consider: Jing has several really non-standard user interface “features” which I am not sure [...]

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Payload-Envelope-Transport (PET) model for peer-to-peer overlay networks

October 13, 2009

Preface Several years ago I did some design and programming work in the peer-to-peer (P2P) space. What follows is a few notes I wrote during that time, but never got together for a conference paper. This is a good place to put it, and if you manage to get all the way through it, you [...]

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What To Do When You Have Too Much To Do

October 10, 2009

I have too much to do. My usual recourse (another cup of coffee) isn’t working. One thing I could do is write out a list of everything on your mind, the sort it out using Covey’s or Blanchard’s methods. Eben Pagan recommends this technique as part of his Wake Up Productive info course on productivity. [...]

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New Obsessions – Opportunities and whimsy abound in stagnant economies

October 7, 2009

At each end of the economic spectrum there is a leisure class. The truly wealthy can pretty much do whatever they want having both time and money. But at the other end, there is no money, only time. Here’s a few things you could do with a lot of time and very little money. Establish [...]

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Programming Is “Actionary” Blogging Is “Reactionary”

October 5, 2009

I have a problem: I need to maintain and extend two blogs, two WordPress plugins, and start work on a new piece of code for a web application. I have to blog and program… …but blogging and programming seem to require slight but important differences in how I work. Blogging requires a different sort of [...]

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How To Write With Authority Despite Having No Authority

October 3, 2009

A couple of days ago I was explaining to a very near and dear friend of mine that “I can’t coach people about success if I don’t have the success I think I ought to have.” She called BS on this, exactly as she should have. Because it’s the same thing for which I call [...]

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Being Productive At Home Is Easy… Relaxing at home is hard!

October 2, 2009

I’ve read a fair bit about “how to work at home” all of which discuss “things” and “stuff” like having a dedicated office, or regular hours, or other explicit, quantitative measures. I don’t worry too much about having dedicated space because I don’t have any problem working from home. But I’ve never read anything about [...]

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Setting up Clicktime Clients, Projects and Tasks for New Client

October 1, 2009

There’s probably nothing I loathe more than keeping track of my time. But off the top of my head… … time tracking is the best tool ever for tracking productivity. For this reason alone, making your peace with – and learning to effectively use – time tracking software is worth your investment. Clicktime, The time [...]

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