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A Truly Special Evening

August 25, 2008

Now that I am a father of 3, married, and a business owner life is busy—and a very good busy. However, when I was younger I was an avid concertgoer. The list of artists I have seen live is long. Now that I am in a different phase in life the opportunities to attend concerts [...]

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One of my arguments may have fallen.

July 1, 2008

I have always been a proponent of standards-based web design. Semantic markup is tasty for me and for the search engines. It makes everyone happy. However, clients do like Flash based websites for the ability to control things explicitly. The rub has always been that a great website is Flash is basically invisible to the [...]

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Honesty is Still Alive

March 11, 2008

I recently experienced a level of honesty that is rare in any age. Yesterday I prepared a deposit for the bank. A few checks signed and ready along with a deposit slip. Also along for the ride was a piece of mail. I was on the way out of the office to run errands and [...]

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Working in a Vacuum

February 16, 2008

I experienced the contrast of working in a vacuum and working in a group and saw that contrast very clearly. Yesterday I was brainstorming my projects and tasks related to using the GTD system and methodology. When working alone it was easy to crank out this lists of things I would like to do. However, [...]

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Perspective From South of the Border

February 7, 2008

I am presently travelling abroad and writing this post from an Internet cafe near the beach in Mexico. I have been outside the U.S. for 7 days now. I have been reluctant to post while on my “vacation” but I have the time to make a brief post now. This trip has been enlightening for [...]

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Taking Breaks Big And Small

January 15, 2008

Something I am not good at is taking a break from work. Any type of break–5 minutes or 5 days. On a daily basis I find myself sitting at the machine for 3 hours at a stretch without getting out of the chair. Obviously this is not good. I did get a pedometer over the [...]

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Thinking About Focus

January 7, 2008

  Over the weekend I was thinking about focus and how much it matters. I’ve written about focus on this blog before. What this blog is focused on, what my company is focused on, and what I am focused on. I have found out that all of these things are focused on too many other [...]

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Drowning in Packaging

December 27, 2007

The things I buy typically have too much packaging. I am usually aware of this and when dealing with one or two items purchased at the store it is not too big a deal. There is a moment that the thought goes through my head… “Man, this is WAY too much packaging for just this [...]

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