That's it. I'm sold. I'm so sick and tired of coffee. I had a gallon of it yesterday and I felt like my skin was going to skitter off my bones. And the coffee here at work is simply revolting. It tastes like they snaked out goop from the floor drains of a McDonalds and filtered them through old newspapers with…

I just uninstalled GTDGmail for a number of reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of the software and everything to do with how I work. The extension does exactly what it's supposed to do. Please, do not take my comments as criticism of the project. [It's not you; it's me.]

LH gets 1000 experience points for using the goban graphic. Go is the greatest non-drinking game in the universe.

First, I am in the public sector so I guess I don't count in terms of this article. But the A-#1 reason why I don't commute is that the idea is unthinkable here.

I downloaded it and tried to get it to run, but apparently it doesn't have any way to go through my company's firewall. It doesn't think there are any internets out there. I can't figure out how to configure the proxy settings. So The Filter just hangs and eventually says "Internet Not Found."

First, I don't IM. I haven't for years. Second, when I did, I turned off logging. I have never felt the need to keep track of conversations like this:

This is going to make me sound like a total hypochondriac, but whenever possible I try to avoid handshakes, especially with men. I see/hear stats - urban legends? - that 80% of males do not wash their hands after using the toilet, and that makes me want to shove my hands in my pockets every time. However, since it's…

My wife and I used it early in our marriage, and we have been debt free for years. We both came into the marriage with stones of various sizes around our necks [mine was much larger,] and given that we weren't making much money, these debts [in the thousands] caused us no small amount of marital stress. We quickly…

I hate cell phones. That's not fair. It's just plastic, silicon, and toxic waste. I hate the way humans use them. I hate it when I have to sit and listen to somebody's conversation. And then the mobile industry picked up my frustration and misunderstood it completely. "Ed must be frustrated because he cannot…

For the life of me, I cannot come up with a good blog idea. I don't mean "post." I can come up with a dozen posts. I have a list in my DIYPlanner for article ideas. I don't have an idea for an overall blog-site. My interests are all over the map, so I cannot imagine what sort of audience I would draw. Nor can I…

Hella sweet. I'm going to post all my angsty, bad, teen [sorry for the redundancy] poetry on my profile page. It will be a miasma of self-loathing and personal productivity. Or maybe I'll just upload a picture.

Now that OSX is just so powerful, there's only one thing keeping me from returning to the Cult of Mac [where I started computing around 20 years ago.] Price. I really really really want to come back but so long as a Mac costs twice what a PC costs, I just don't have the disposable income to be hip. Yes, I realize I…

I am almost certain that some of my interests would not get me hired. But who knows. The hiring process is so subjective, I'm almost of the mind to say "why not?" Anyone looking to hire a programmer/project manager into homebrewing, Mythbusters, hiking & camping, playing with his 3 year old, strange music, and…

Apart from getting drunk, I would have to say the young have an easier time dropping whatever they are doing and jumping onto something else. Quitting your job, skipping the country, going on a road trip — all much more tricky when you have a family and a mortgage.

Why I have quit various jobs.

Also useful is the good ol' rain barrel. This is nothing fancier than a modified 55 gallon plastic barrel. At the top, there is a hole into which you feed your gutter downspouts. At the bottom is a spigot attachment to hook up to your hose.

I too have been employing Gina's Trusted Trio hack and I've found it to be quite the lifesaver. Even GroupWise [with which we are cursed here at my office] has adequate search capabilities to make it work well. I took Gmail, which I use exclusively for personal stuff, even further. I only use two labels. I have a…

Where do I start? I think there are several gems from my first few years of marriage when I was a broke, debt-burdened sailor struggling to get our new life started. How about when I borrowed somebody's kid's dirt bike (the peddling kind, not the motorcycle) and rode around town looking for our first apartment. (At…

Gah? Nut allergies! EVERYBODY PANIC! Sorry. I was just surprised that nobody had gone into a tizzy about nut allergies.

For better or worse, the majority of my week is unstructured. Or to put it another way, I have the freedom to do whatever needs doing for 80-100% of my work week. This is a blessing and a curse. Obviously, it is a blessing because I don't have every five minute block of my time committed to somebody else's work, a…