Web Warrior Tools - Get Your Smart On

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My very good buddies Glen (of LifeDev) and Leo (of Zen Habits) launched their brand new ebook store today, called Web Warrior Tools. Much like their awesome blogs, the main idea behind the books they sell is improving your life. And don’t let the name fool you - these precious volumes are good for anybody, not just us chumps that spend all day tapping on the keyboard.

They’ve already got some killer titles fresh off of the presses, including:

The best part their offerings (and ebooks in general, really) is that you can have them now! Click to buy, and you’re ready to go a few seconds later. Gotta love the freakin’ Internet.

All books offer a free preview of a chapter or two, so you can peruse a good chunk of the book before paying a nickel. Run - don’t walk - over to Web Warrior Tools and get yourself some of the finest ebooks from the finest bloggers on the web!

May 27, 2008 | Filed Under Cool, Hacking Life, Practical | Comments 

Productivity vs. Social Media

As many of you know, I’ve been immersing myself in some of these social media services lately (Twitter, FriendFeed, and most recently Seesmic and Vimeo). It’s been a lot of fun and I’m really happy to have started doing it, but something has been vexing me.

How does a personal productivity nut reconcile the (arguably fruitless) time spent interacting with people online?

I posted a video over at Seesmic of myself rambling on about it. Would love to hear your feedback, here’s the video:

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May 23, 2008 | Filed Under Distractions, Productivity | Comments 

Friday Fun: Flip Video

My wife bought me a Flip Video Ultra for Father’s Day. If you’re unfamiliar, you can find more info here - but it’s essentially a really tiny digital video camera. It’s too cool for words, I kid you not. Here’s a video of my son and I playing with it:


Are You the Hoonan? from Brett Kelly on Vimeo.

Fun, fun stuff.

Be sure to subscribe to my Vimeo feed to see all of the little oddball video clips I put up there. I’m going to have a good time with this thing :)

Have a great weekend, everybody!

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May 22, 2008 | Filed Under Cool, Distractions | Comments 

Brand New Site by Cranking Widgets

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There are times in life when you decide “enough is enough“. This past week was one of those times.

I get a fair amount of email. Not as much as some, but it’s a pretty steady stream. Sometimes, those messages are from well-wishing friends who thought I might enjoy an inspirational message from an unknown source. Messages like these are almost always sent to a whole pantload of people. And all of our email addresses are nicely collected in the ‘To’ field, where every recipient now has access to my email address.

This is, frankly, infuriating. So much so that I decided to take some (arguably passive) action. I created a website where I can send people who do this.

Humbly, I give you bccplease.com. The idea is pretty self-explanatory, when you send an email to a million people, put their email addresses in the ‘BCC’ field instead of the ‘To’ field.

I hope you can all find some use for it, feel free to direct any email abusers you encounter on over for some tough love.

Enjoy!

May 18, 2008 | Filed Under Email, Hacking Life, Practical | Comments 

8 Ninja Uses for Binder Clips

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I would be willing to wager that most people, during their first office supply shopping trip after having read Getting Things Done, pick up some binder clips. This is probably because they happened across the Hipster PDA at some point during their GTD travels and thought, “man, that looks like something I could really get into - and for like $5, tops…”. Hell, you could build Hipster PDAs for a small village for like $20, who wouldn’t be tempted by such a small admission price? I know I wasn’t - I’ve got a whole tub of probably 30-40 binder clips of varying sizes that has been very busy gathering dust for many months now.

If you find yourself in this boat, have no fear, for I have compiled some seriously hacky uses for all those binder clips. They may not all have mass appeal, but they are examples of how to take your productivity gear to places it was never intended :)

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May 7, 2008 | Filed Under GTD, Practical, Productivity Pr0n | Comments 

Reasons to Get a Tattoo (and Reasons Not To)


I have lots of tattoos. Something like 30 at last count, if memory serves. As tattoos have grown in popularity and social acceptance, it’s very likely that your average 20-something has one or more tattoos. And while I’m certainly not an expert on the art of tattooing, I’ve got a good deal of experience with tattoos (mostly because I get lots of people who want to show theirs to me) and can enumerate fairly confidently what are good reasons for getting a tattoo. I can also tell you what are not good reasons :)

People’s tastes in tattoo design has always fascinated me. Everything from beautifully ornate recreations of their mother’s High School yearbook photo to a cup of coffee and a donut (seriously, I’ve seen it). Far be it from me to tell somebody I think their tattoo is dumb (to their face, at least), but I think there are some pretty hard-and-fast rules about choosing a design for your next tattoo.

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May 5, 2008 | Filed Under Hacking Life, Practical | Comments