A routine cleaning yesterday turned into two extractions, 4 fillings, and a deep cleaning. I’ve got the usual meds and am trying to get work done while staving off the pain.
Update: I’m off the vicodin the first day and now only need an ibuprofen before bed.
Update, Pt. 2: The extracted teeth were my bottom wisdom [...]

I write a lot of email. It’d be nice if every email went to a buddy a cubicle away, but for everyone else there’s a decorum to getting your ideas across in the most concise (and polite) manner possible. Check out this article on writing sensible email messages.
Update: Sorry about the broken link–evidently I plugged [...]

As a follow-up to my post about getting organized, I’m giving the Backpack service from 37 Signals a try.
The backpack works like a personal wiki. You’re able to create new pages, link them together, and populate them with content. Your formatting options are plain text, HTML, and textile. I’ve been enjoying the latter and loaded [...]

I enjoy reading ESR’s political posts as much as I enjoy reading Tom Clancy’s books about submarines and spies. They’re fantastic and just a little bit scary.

At work I listen to shoutcast streams because I can’t install the Musicmatch client for which I’ve an annual OnDemand subscription (used to be Platinum before Yahoo took over and upgraded me for “free”) at work.
I usually float from 80’s to smooth jazz to ambient sounds to whatever high sampling stream I can get my [...]

It looks like cygnus has been doing a bit of hacking and slashing on the code over at parsed.org. You’re now able to drop your search string into the URL which makes finding your favorite tip with smart keywords quick and easy.
For example, the URL below would search for any tip content or titles that [...]

While cruising technorati links, I found a series by Joe over at First Clown talking about Living the Life Electric. It’s an interesting read that makes you realize how difficult it must be for an Internet neophyte trying to break into the environment we live in every day.

I’ve used various methods of stashing my notes so I won’t lose them. Depending on their mode, I’d drop them in one of these spots:

Writing them into individual files in ~/notes.
Submitting them as “tips” on parsed.org.
Creating individual notes with MS Outlook at work.
Jotting them in a notebook and/or leather-bound journal.
Adding a post to my [...]

I’ve decided to roll my blog from Typo to Wordpress. While I appreciate the free blog from Planet Argon, it’s lacking things like drafts. I’ll be publishing my older posts and back-dating them appropriately but the few comments will be lost unless I start crawling around the DB and inserting them manually.
Please be patient while [...]

I was going through my reFeeds and happened upon this article about new and groovy software that developers are using these days. There’s a blurb in there about OSoft’s ThoutReader open-source document reader:
The open-source ThoutReader from OSoft provides a universal reader for documents and ebooks from many sources. It attempts to be the hub for [...]