Boston: Jacket Required

I'm off to Boston for a week beginning tomorrow. I expect some really great things to come out of a couple of conferences I'll be attending, and I'm also looking forward to seeing good friends of mine who are coming to Boston for a day so we can go to dinner on Tuesday night. We're going to Excelsior, which by all accounts is a great restaurant, although I'm always a little put off when the fine print says "Jacket suggested." I don't plan to wear a jacket anywhere else - certainly not to the conference sessions - so I haven't decided if I'm going to pack something that will get one use that week, or go without and feel a little out of place while dining.

Yes, I did that thing

On my regular Friday evening blogcrawl... came across this sad example of parking in the snow. I'd display the picture here, but it's "All Rights Reserved" on Flickr, so go here to see it in all its glory. No, this isn't me, but it might as well have been tonight when I dropped by the house for a few minutes and inadvertently parked about 2 feet away from the curb. Blaming the snow ain't gonna cut it. I was only there 25 minutes, long enough to make and consume really tasty panini with rapini, parmigiano reggiano, and olive oil. But every time a car drove by, I was sure I could hear someone cursing my car. It didn't diminish my enjoyment of the sandwich one bit.

GTD Tool of the Day

So, today it's Thinking Rock, my friends. It's part 11 of my never-ending quest to find the best possible GTD software solution, and perhaps waste more time than anyone thought possible doing it.

One must not succumb to the belief that the perfect GTD system exists, but I have to say, I want a system that effectively offers an "inbox" to collect stray thoughts. Later, I can come back through and categorize and contextualize to my heart's content. Midnight Inbox offers one - well, of course it does, it's in the name. So does TR. Like most of the Mac-based GTD assemblage, I eagerly await OmniOutliner's entry - OmniFocus. Is nirvana just around the corner? Not sure, but dinner is.

The Return

I started blogging in a rather haphazard, infrequent way back in 1997, but REAL blogging began with my migration to the Blogger platform in early 2001. So 6 years later, it feels kind of cool to be coming back to a much-improved Blogger platform. For now, I'm keeping my domain and other blog, and this platform is for blogging about things I feel like talking about - surprisingly, some of those things aren't work-related.

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