A few months ago I saw a bunch of Verizon trucks and human sized gophers digging up grass in my neighborhood, which meant only one thing - I would soon be able to get FiOS!
Fast forward to today and I’m finally able to order Verizon FiOS to my house (which I did this morning).
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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).
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.
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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.
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.
