Archive for 2008/02


The Recipe for a Balanced Life?

This article was originally published in The Simplifier #58.
Article: The Recipe for a Balanced Life?
By Shawn Tuttle
Balance. It sounds like a great idea: work doesn’t overtake your life, you have the time to develop good relationships with your family, and who knows, maybe you even make enough time to train for and run a marathon. […]

The Simplifier #58 is Online

The fifty-eighth issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier is now archived on our newsletter archives page.
Here is a brief summary of the contents:
1. A Note From Lance
Bad “balance” spokesperson
2. Our Featured Quote
by Euripedes
3. Article: The Recipe for a Balanced Life?
by PS Head Simplifier Shawn Tuttle
4. This Week’s Simplification Tip
Move it or lose it!
5. […]

The final Clean Desk Challenge!

Bad news and good news on this final evening of the Clean Desk Challenge. Now that I have my bluetooth sync-ing capability, the photos aren’t transferring to the laptop. Nor is a repaired or replaced Nikon back in these hands. That leaves me essentially camera-less as far as the blog is concerned. Which is bad […]

3rd place in Toastmaster Evaluation contest

Last week when we were reviewing the list of folks who had volunteered to be in today’s Evaluation contest, the list seemed awfully thin. The contests are more fun when there are a bunch of contestants, say at least 5 or 6, so I switched my job from “Counter” to “Contestant”.
The proof is in […]

Treo 755p does, in fact, HotSync via bluetooth

Whoa-nelly! I publicly articulated thebad assumption that Verizon had disabled bluetooth hotsyncing capability. I read or heard it somewhere and took it to be true. Someone of the me-myself-and-I crowd is just plain ready to make them the “bad guys”.
Today when I started looking around for some kind of work-around, I found nothing (probably b/c […]

Clean Desk #19, aka, is a clean desk a symptom of a sick mind?

That’s what “they” say, anyways. Let’s see what a Google search turns up, shall we?
Search: clean desk symptom sick mind
Lanfranco Muzi of Italy (and now of Oregon) uses the phrase, “A clean desk is the symptom of a sick mind…” as something of a tagline on his website. Mind you, this isn’t a blog but […]

Clean desk #18 + Bluetooth headset

Just for fun (is this what she does for fun?!?!!? Yikes!), in the spirit of the Clean Desk Challenge, I cleared off the digital desktop as well as the glass desktop tonight:
   
What you can’t quite make out next to the phone is a bluetooth headset which got connected to the new Treo yesterday […]