I have yet to find the blog posting tool that feels right for me, but the hunt goes on. Today I’m trying ScribeFire. Thanks to Safari 5, extensions are now allowed and easy to create and add to Safari. ScribeFire puts an icon in your Safari toolbar. (It’s also available for Chrome.)

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While I am working up a post on the “Five Foot Bookshelf” and my return to it, I wanted to throw some quotes out there from Epictetus. It’s a fantastically philosophical book, one I must force myself to read slowly and just a couple pages at a time, but its tremendously rewarding.
“the present is the [...]

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Three for one today, I am trying out MarsEdit for my blog, I am pointing to myhomeschoolplan blog where I wrote the post, and I am trying out Twitter’s new Blackbird service that makes embedding tweets easy. What a deal!

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Don’t aim at success – the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue…as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.
- Viktor Frankl

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Following a conversation on Twitter, I thought I’d write in more than 140 characters what our family does for our calendar.
First off my wife uses a desktop software called Time & Chaos. We’ve been using it since 1995. It is fantastic, gives you a great view of contacts, appointments, and to do’s in one view. [...]

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