You know that you're over 40 if . . .

. . . you know who this woman is.
By the way, I love her. ;)

Upgrade your Life

If you're a productivity geek always looking for a better way to do an old thing, then do I have recommend a book for you. Gina Trapani has written a gem, Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better.

In the book, you'll learn better ways to do email, organize your desktop, and get more done sooner leaving you more time for life's important stuff like going home earlier and spending quality time with your loved ones.

I am on Chapter 2 and have already implemented a new way to organize my emails and have installed Microsoft's new desktop search engine (Google has one, and is recommended in the book, but it scares me).

Anyways, check out the book. While you're at it, also check out LifeHacker.com. This is the website from which the book is based and sign up for its daily threads. They're as good as the book.

This Is Interesting

I CAN READ IT! CAN YOU ????

fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too.
Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe can.

i cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.

Now THIS is a Grill!!

Getting Organized

I am always on the hunt for better ways to be organized. I read stuff on it, look for stuff on it, and generally keep an open ear for it in conversations. Oh, and I also read blogs about it. Lifehacker has a great post on the different GTD applications. GTD stands for, "Get Things Done," although if I were handing out acronyms, I would've picked GRD (Git 'R Done).

So, yesterday I read a great post on Lifehacker about Remember the Milk and remembered that I indeed signed up for it ages ago but never worked on it. So after reading the post, I returned to Remember the Milk, a GTD web app that I signed up for ages ago but never used. While reading the post, I found a tutorial that gave me one of those 'A-ha!' moments. Since yesterday, I have been using Remember the Milk like mad.

I can definitely see myself using it for quite some time. Go check it out. I think it's pretty cool.

Long Time No Posts, Right?

So sorry about that. Been crazy busy. I'll add the details about that later. For now, I found this great cartoon pic this morning.

Arghhh!! The Dreaded 'Caps Lock'

Do you type a lot? I do. I type all the time and I like to think that I am a pretty fast typer. The fastest I've been "clocked at" is 100 wpm but that doesn't mean that I sometimes don't hit the wrong keys from time to time. One of my most-often-key-hit-by-mistake is the Caps Lock button on my computer keyboard.

I found myself over at Lifehacker today and discovered this great script that you can also download as an .exe without having to actually put the script in yourself (just scroll down the post half-way to find it). The script reconfigures your Caps Lock button. Once the script is installed, you have to double hit it, to engage it. So, the next time you accidentally hit it, it won't engage your Caps Lock.

Pretty cool, right?