Previous to my climbing sabbatical, I would strive to volunteer on a weekly basis. This past Wednesday my 10-month trip came to a close and I immediately jumped back into my service regime as I truly had missed this weekly routine while away. In the past I have put up a few blog posts about [...]
My email account has always been a pseudo to-do list that I actively attempted to work through. Last year I was turned to the idea of striving to achieve the zero inbox due to a tweet by Tim Walker exclaiming his current zero inbox mastery. Over the year I would occasionally hit the zero inbox [...]
The Ranks of Volunteers Soar with Unemployment. I wonder if I could really go a whole week without spending money. I guess with a little planning it would be possible. Tim Walker, king of the zero inbox, writes an excellent post on Inbox-Fu. I particularly liked the ‘Think’ portion as just yesterday I brainstormed a [...]
As you may have noticed (that is, if I still actually have any readers to this blog.. *smile*), this blog has been quite dormant for some time. The reason? In August 2008 I decided to take some time off to travel, moving from a full time to part time role with my firm. I’m single [...]
The other day I came across the need to convert some mp4 files to mp3 and was actively reading up on freeware converters. Yet after reading some articles and installing the iTunes update, I discovered freeware isn’t even needed. Nice. Right click on the song you want to convert. (Or for us Mac users, ctrl [...]
I came across this Forbes’ article through a work contact. I really enjoyed the content and wanted to save for future reference and figured I might as well post it to my blog in case it was of interest to any of you readers. An S.O.S. To Silicon Valley Sramana Mitra 10.10.08, 6:00 AM ET An [...]
I apologize to any readers who might have visited this blog in the past 6 weeks. There has been an extreme lack of posts lately because as of August 1st I moved into a part time role with my firm as I am focusing on traveling and climbing for quite a few months (of which [...]
In quest to rid myself of unnecessary material belongings, I recently researched out photo scanning services to scan my thousands of print photos. I compared similar services then finally decided that FotoBridge offered the best rates for the quality. As instructed, I packed up my photos, all 32 lbs of them, and shipped them to [...]
I sold my television over two years ago, preferring to watch all video content on my computer, personally considering the computer sufficient for my media consumption needs. Within the past 3 months I moved in with a friend who happened to own a television but without cable access; its sole purpose being for guitar hero [...]
