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Earlier this week I posted my first impressions of Google Music All Access to Facebook. Now that I’ve spent a little over a week with it, I’ll share some more impressions. First Impressions (from day one) Missing the usual suspects in music. For me this includes: Beatles, Eagles, Peter Gabriel, Led Zep, AC/DC, Metallica, Zwan, ...

If you’re busy, don’t bother reading all this tl;dr; junk and skip right to the more interesting bits. UPDATE 2/19/2013 – I made a few mistakes in the original version of this article. I had missed a few of the Psalms, so the total number count and the count for Psalms was incorrect. These have ...

This year I made a handful of resolutions. I made mine in February. I have a few guidelines I follow when I make mine: Make sure they are realistic. Nothing defeats more than setting goals you know you won’t reach. Make sure they are something you really want. So often I find myself making resolutions ...

If you’re starting a new business, you will need some software for yourself and your staff to use. Frankly, I’m a bootstrapper at heart, so most of these are either free or “freemium” and should scale to your budget and needs. Software, Services and Tools for All Businesses Accounting: Quickbooks Online There are probably a lot ...

To go along with my previous few posts on productivity. I thought I would give a glimpse into exactly what I’m doing. To recap, I read and tried implement Getting Things Done. My tools: Outlook Calendar and Evernote. Then I read about The Secret Weapon and set about to change the way I used Evernote ...

I respect Scott and how much he gets done. As you can tell from my blog, I’m on a little bit of a productivity kick these days and Scott was nice enough to share his thoughts in this 43 minute presentation. “43 minutes?!? I don’t have time for that.” Yeah, that was my first reaction ...

So, I wrote about Getting Things Done earlier this week. As I read, I implemented it the best I could. For me, that meant clearing out the inboxes and putting notes into Evernote. That meant organizing things into folders in Evernote. That meant keeping my hand-written todo-list notecard handy. It appears someone else has already ...

OK, so here’s my quick summary of the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. I’m glad this book was written. I’m glad my co-worker had it sitting in a stack of papers. I’m glad I picked it up and read it. I wrote this because he’s very busy and I hoped it would help ...

Just as a little experiment, I checked to see if I could use jQuery to bring back the <blink> tag. Thank goodness, the answer is “yes”. Here it is in all of its glory. $("document").ready(function () { $("blink").each(function () { var $tag = $(this); window.setInterval(function () { if ($tag.css("opacity") == 1) $tag.css("opacity", 0); else $tag.css("opacity", ...

Friends in Illinois, Several weeks back I wrote to my congressmen to oppose SOPA and PIPA because I believe that they will make doing business on the internet very hard. If webmasters live under a constant threat of having their domain’s seized by the federal government due to real or perceived copyright violations, it will ...