Design

Just when I was thinking I'd seen everything HTML could do, I see Long Story Short Pier. Wow. I now hate the cleek design.

How do get more done in less time

Another tip from that clever little book:

#141: Do everything faster! Walk a step faster, write e-mails faster and get off the phone faster. Search for times where you can gain a few seconds that will add up to a few minutes a day.

I'm exhausted just thinking about it.

Time Management

I had to sit through a "Time Management" course yesterday. The class itself was as dull as you can probably imagine (Set Goals. Write Them Down. Don't Waste Time On Unimportant Stuff.), and yes, the teacher was late. For a while, it threatened to turn into a nauseating Extroverts Love Group Activities! session, but luckily the crowd wasn't into it and the cheerleader-in-charge stopped after one little activity: Write Down One of Your Personal Goals And Give It To Someone Near You ! I said I wanted to buy an Audi TT convertible; "unrealistic" was the consensus on that one.

But, one good thing came out of it, a little book called "175 Ways To Get More Done In Less Time! (It's all about making time for success!)" Over the next few days, I'll share some of those 175 Ways with you. Here's one to get started:

#27 Avoid glass desktops. They glare and are hard to keep clean. You don't need to spend valuable time wiping off fingerprints.

Hmm.

Assholes

This is disgusting (morally). Wrongly imprisoned for 19 years, what do you get when you get out? A bill for the food and lodging you consumed during those 19 years, of course.

Shuffle off to Zelazowa Wola

Gotta love the Shuffle on the iPod. I've got 4,000 songs in there and for the past week, I've been letting it just shuffle among them. There's a pleasing mental dissonance created by the juxtapositions of random songs from wildly different genres. For instance, the last few songs were:

Beastie Boys : The Update
Chopin : Nocture in Gm op.15 no.3
Fugazi : Give Me The Cure
Nod : Running Into Trees
Replacements : Buck Hill
Sonic Youth : Master Dik
Chopin : Etude No. 1 in Fm
Buena Vista Social Club : Candela
Beck : Paper Tiger

It's amusing (to me, one who is easily amused) that Chopin would show up as the bread in an 80's indie rock sandwich.

Neologism

Today, the always excellent Izzle pfaff! unzips his pants and whips out a new word : doppelwanger. Read the linked article to find out why it's noteworthy.