Year: 2005

OK gang, I need your help. The Shaun Jackson “Back Office” backpack was a bust. While it sported a unique design, I found it highly impractical on the airplane; in order to access any of the pockets (of which there are too few, by the way), you need to completely unfold the backpack — not…

Picked up this nugget from David Allen’s Getting Things Done blog: Interesting thing about Flagstone is that one of their silver bullets is a company blog that they use to post up-to-the-minute potentially relevant data from their research in that industry. It has supported their positioning as the go-to people in that niche, because it…

Scoble pointed to this tragic post from Michael Giagnocavo, who buried his daughter today. She was five days old when she died. Like Scoble, I was not able to read Michael’s post without weeping. Sobbing, actually. I can’t begin to fathom the depth of Michael’s grief, nor can I pretend to empathize. Rest in Peace,…

Last night I installed MT-Keystrokes (hat tip to Erik for the pointer). It’s a simple, if clever, piece of anti-spam technology for Movable Type comments. MT-Blacklist does a good job of catching most of the comments submitted, but there are a ton of comments submitted that are queued for approval, and deleting them from the…

Great post by Adrian Trenholm (link via Lifehacker). A snippet: I wanted to take email which I didn’t want to deal with straight away, remove it from my inbox, then have it automatically reappear in my inbox when I was ready to work on it. Having read Merlin Mann’s email diet, I hit on the…

The other day, taking the train home from work, the guy behind me was ringtone shopping the entire trip. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard the hip-hop chart-toppers on a Motorola phone in an otherwise quiet train car. Ironically, when his phone finally did ring, it was obvious that he hadn’t actually bought any of…

Sony billboard in NYC Originally uploaded by rklau. Originally seen at “HuffingtonPost”:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/jonah-peretti/sony-psp-powered-by-micro_1398.html.

Cole Francis is house hunting and concluded that: Our final synopsis is that there are many wonderful subdivisions in Naperville, including the thriving downtown area. We found both train stations in the city, including one in the heart of downtown Naperville and one farther out towards Aurora, which should give you an idea of Naperville’s…

I haven’t looked into this enough to know all the details, but it’s interesting that the Naperville library system’s announcement that it will be taking biometric info to let patrons access the Internet is on the front page of Slashdot right now. Woot.

Ed Cone reports remorsefully: “This is depressing that … the blogger in my dream is Jarvis rather than “Wonkette”:http://www.wonkette.com/.”