I’ve been sitting on this post for a while now, but since Amazon just bought Audible, I figured it was a good time to bring up my newfound love for audio books.

For years I’ve been meaning to read more books. Someone will mention a really great book and I put it on my imaginary wish list, but I never end up buying it. Worse yet, I’ll find myself at a bookstore and buy a book, which makes me feel good about myself but a year later the book is still sitting on the shelf (or has a bookmark through about a fifth of it).

» Continue reading “Hate Reading? Get Audio Books”

A little while back I installed Mozy, the much touted online backup service. I thought I had found the perfect automatic data backup system, and even gave it a favorable review earlier this year.

» Continue reading “WARNING: Mozy May Kill Your System’s Performance”

I just read another article about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project and I’m pretty impressed with what they’ve come up with.

» Continue reading “Forget the iPhone, I want an OLPC”

Some of the best advice in the 4 Hour Hour Workweek revolves around the concept of elimination.

Everywhere you turn there’s a pervasive “more is better” attitude that encourages adding “stuff” to your life. As a result you spend more and more hours dealing with all this “stuff” and while you may feel productive and like you’re getting things done, all you’re really doing is creating unnecessary work - you’re not being effective.

» Continue reading “Declutter Your Life and Your Inbox”

Yesterday I noticed that Google Analytics has been underreporting traffic for all the sites I monitor. It’s showing 0-12 visitors for sites that usually receive hundreds or thousands of visitors per day. It’s also showing zeros all across the board for today.

» Continue reading “Is Google Analytics Down?”