A few months before my son was born (about 2 years ago), my wife had her first baby shower. She received a plethora of gifts from family and friends – baby clothes, diapers, you name it. I went and picked her up and brought all of the crap home so we could sift through it and figure out what we actually wanted to keep. We ended up returning something like half of what we had received (because most of it wasn’t purchased from our baby registry), most of it to the same 2-3 stores, each of us issuing us a gift card for the total value of what we’d returned.

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My good friend GTD Wannabe over at her blog of the same name did one of these meme taggy thingamajigs. Against my better judgment, I’ve decided to participate. Looking back on the different habits that have made me the productivity guru I am today (lol), this was a fairly easy decision. Of all the little [...]

(Disclosure: I don’t work for Tivo or anything) Before you dismiss this notion out of hand, I invite you to examine this hypothetical situation… Tom and his wife Jane are seated in the living room. As per usual, Jane is in possession of the coveted remote control and happens upon yet another rerun of the [...]

A big part (perhaps the biggest part) of many peoples’ lives is being a parent. Some of you are probably seasoned parents, some new parents and some not even thinking about that sort of thing yet. Well, for the latter two groups, I have a few things you might like to know. But first, you [...]

For those who aren’t readers of the venerable Lifehacker (and if this includes you – for shame ) – Adam wrote a little windows application awhile back called Texter that allows you to create hotstrings that expand to longer pieces of text. For example, when I type ‘cwb’ and hit Tab, it replaces ‘cwb’ with [...]

Index Cards Make Decent Funnels Originally uploaded by inkedmn. So, this morning on my way to work I realized that my car was running a bit funky and needed some transmission fluid. I stopped at 7-11, grabbed some napkins for wiping the dipstick and realized – I have no funnel…

I’ve had several requests come my way for some tips on how to implement GTD on the super cheap. After all, not everybody can afford a super-fancy PDA or even a spiffy Moleskine notebook – especially college students. So, after doing a little research, I’ve figured out a way to make your very own GTD [...]

Being the egomaniac that I am, in a previous post I politely informed you that there are at least 5 products intended to help care for a newborn that I consider to be superfluous. In the interest of fairness (and symmetry, I suppose), I thought I’d run down the 5 things that I consider to [...]

Part of the freak-out period a couple (particularly the breadwinner, statistically the father) goes through when they discover they’re going to have a baby is all the crap they’re going to need to buy. You’ll need food, clothes, diapers, furniture, etc. and before you know it, you’re giving yourself an ulcer thinking about how much [...]

Long gone are the days of feebly visiting every website on your daily reading list, checking for new content. These days, all the kids seem to have their favorite RSS reader dialed in with all of their favorite blogs and newsfeeds, eating it up like it’s Thanksgiving dinner. But, dear friends, there’s more to effective [...]