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Jeremy Wagstaff's Moleskine Remainders

Jeremy Wagstaff has posted some quotes I’d sent about paper, notebooks, and the Moleskine phenomenon. Although I hadn’t intended it as an actual essay, it more or less works together.

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Pzizz nap app: On sale today only

Chris Messina points out that Pzizz, our favorite napping helper application, is on sale for today only at MacUpdate.

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Blacktree 'account suspended'...anyone know about this?

A friend of mine just performed a clean install of leopard, and then went to get Quicksilver...but Blacktree is down....

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com

suspended acct. is the reason...does anyone know anything about this? thanks for the help.

Hipster PDA Hack

How often do you find yourself at an office door, wishing you could leave a note to describe you've been there? There are many situations where having a post-it handy would be, well, awfully handy. With a simple hack of your hipster PDA, you can have this power at all times!

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TOPICS: Lofi, Hipster PDA

Address book, ipod touch and groups

I've just acquired an iPod touch and I'm in love.

One small issue, though. I've added a bundle of addresses in the past few weeks using the touch, but only yesterday did I realise that they could be placed in groups if you were IN the group already when you started adding the new entry. So there's a whole load of ungrouped entries in my (frighteningly big) address book.

The logical thing would be to make a smart group for stuff that, say, isn't in a dumb group. But I couldn't see a smart group option for that. Any bright ideas?

Whitepaper: GTD LoFi/HiFi by Emory

Whitepaper: GTD LoFi/HiFi by Emory

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USA Today: Smart CEOs watch how you treat the staff

USATODAY.com - CEOs say how you treat a waiter can predict a lot about character

I was a busboy in junior high and high school and a waiter in college, and I hardily concur that the behavior of a restaurant patron can unintentionally reveal loads about their character.

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TOPICS: Links, Work

Religious Backgrounds

Religious Backgrounds

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Levenger 20% Off Coupon

Levenger 20% Off Coupon

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TOPICS: Lofi
 
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