May 5, 2010
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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April 24, 2010
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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April 24, 2010
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. Anyway, they have an add-on that allows her to publish her calendar to google calendar. So she plugs in everything related to family activities and with 2 boys ages 14 and 12 and 1 girl age 10, we have soccer, basketball, track, tap dance, choir, physics club, cello, piano etc.
I have a mac and use ical on the mac. I subscribe to her my wife’s gcal. That way I can always see what we’ve got scheduled, and I can see it on my mac, iphone and ipad. And, just as important, since it is an additional calendar, when I want some sanity or a clean view of my work calendar, I can unclick and NOT view it. 
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April 24, 2010
I am a huge fan of both MinimalMac and SimpleDesks so, when I found myself for the first time in what seems like years with nothing on my schedule today, I thought I’d take a crack at simplifying my den.
I finally put up my Hugh MacLeod framed drawing in my den, and love it!
After that I went through the process of throwing out and putting away as much as possible. While it’s not quite as minimalistic as the great desktops on the aforementioned sites, I’m quite pleased with where it’s at.
Notes:
- 2 printers, one is wireless for the rest of the household, one has a scanner/copier which I need.
- MacBook Pro from 2007 (love it) with LG monitor (decent)
- Under the printer shelf are my USB chargeable items, 2 ipods, iphone, incase battery for the iphone.
- Labtec speakers with polk audio sub-woofers.
- LaCie 500gb hard drive using Time Machine to back-up my Mac.
- iPad (16gb wifi) with the iPad keyboard.
- To save energy I use a smart strip power cord, with my lamp as the control. The strip has three categories, the control, slots items that when the control is turned off are turned off as if they were unplugged, and a couple slots for items that you don’t want to be all the way off.
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April 24, 2010
Finally got my Hugh MacLeod artwork up in my den.
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