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Every now-and-then I come across a project that simply blows me away. Makes me wish I had the skills to create something of a similar nature. Unfortunately, most of these projects involve an advanced knowledge of wood working or a basic knowledge of electronics.
This one falls into the knowledge of electronics category. Maybe one day I will actually read up on and teach myself some of the basics of electronics if just to learn how to create something like this:
Much respect to Angela Yuan (though she might want to work on her website a bit)
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I’m a complete freak for organizational tools. I don’t subscribe to a particular system (such as Franklin Covey, which my friend Rick has mastered), but I do give a lot of thought to ease of use and effectiveness, especially as compared to slickness and coolness.
So I was a little too excited at running across D.I.Y. Templates, which features a directory of To Do List templates. They range from the quirky (the note card template seen here) to more complicated layouts that include daily or weekly timelines and checkboxes. There are forms for work stuff, finances, money, blah and even blahblahblahblah (spoken quickly).
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I discovered a new gadget online simply called Your Salary.
It’s simple, you plug in what you make and it runs a clock/calculator function that tallies what you are making per second, per minute, per hour and per day. It even runs it while you are on the site, showing the pennies adding up, turning into nickels, dimes, quarters, fifty cent pieces (why don’t those have a nifty name like “quarters” or “dimes?”) and dollars.
Unfortunately it appears to be on a 24 hour scale (so it is literally telling you the value of every second of your day as long as you are employed), so you only know your worth during a 24 hour day when you worked as opposed to calculating your typical 40 hour week, though as I jumped back and forth between this page, some conversations I was having through IM and just staring at the money I was earning, I did make $1.97.
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Last week I broke down and decided to pay $15 for access to TimesSelect. Today, the New York Times eliminated the program and made the newspapers columnists and archive free!
They had FINALLY worn me down. I’m the last one to splurge on a new item. I’ve got a television set from 1984 (the most amazing Hitachi. I doubt it will ever die and the picture is great). When I buy something, the trend has passed, the item is trustworthy, it’s future viability certain. So, shockingly, I was the customer the Times always wanted. The last curmudgeon to fall down.
TimesSelect was always an awful idea. I gave in because I needed an article from the archives and I could expense the cost.
I guess they blew it, because if I signed up who knows how many thrifty folks like myself were about to emerge from the scenery.
This makes me a two-time loser. Two weeks after I bought the second generation ipod, Apple produced one with a color screen! Do you have any idea how horrible that was? And they offered a lousy discount store credit to take back the new “old” player. Now TimesSelect. I hope that, at least this time, I get my money back.
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Apparently it has become a food day around here, which works out just fine by me as I love to cook, eat and look at pictures of food. And on that last note, Time Magazine currently has a good Photo Essay called “What Makes Us Eat More” and a great Photo Essay up called “What the World Eats.”
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