Posted in musing, tagged green on December 30, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Savannah Walters has come up with a simple way to save gas…
Pump Up Your Tires!
According to her website, Americans could save 4 million gallons of gas each day. That’s more than we hope to get out of the Alaskan Wildlife Refuge.
All for a little air.
Something to think about, huh?
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Posted in musing, tagged green on December 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Catching up on my reading, I found an article that really makes me think about the future of our way of life. The article, “The City After Oil,” talks about how our lifestyle is really oil dependent and how things will have to change radically – and how just making cars better isn’t enough.
“…the private [...]
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Posted in soapbox, tagged computer on December 29, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
OK. I’ve never thought that the government ever thought we were intelligent. But PLEASE!
I’m talking about the discovery that the National Security Agency (NSA) planted cookies on the computers that visited their website.
Bear in mind that the White House’s Office of Management and Budget prohibits federal agencies from using persistent cookies unless there is a [...]
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Posted in musing, tagged music on December 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I know, I know, a very worn out joke. But I had to wonder…
Last week they were running a series of “golden oldies” on the classical public radio station (click here if you really want to know more. They were playing this delightfully playful Christmas piece, with lyrics in some romantic language. It was from [...]
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Posted in musing, tagged holiday on December 19, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
This season, the end-of-the-year-get-everything-done-frantically-so-you-can-have-a-perfect-holiday-season, is full of extreme tension. I’ve decided I’m going to talk about how I manage this, and how I get things done during this stressful time.
It’s interesting to me, because I have let my GTD system slip in the last few weeks, and I am being plagued by thoughts of things [...]
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Posted in musing, tagged planning on December 9, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
December always brings for me a time of reflection and planning. With the new year approaching, I always feel a need to take stock of where I am and plan for what I want to do.
This year I’ve been focusing on using Getting Things Done to get things to done, as well as re-evaluate what [...]
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