Archive for October, 2009

GPS For Your CPU (VOL039)

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition: GPS For Your CPU.

One of the more thoughtful gifts I received recently was a GPS system. I am plagued by a complete lack of direction, so before acquiring this device, I had a keen ability to take two turns while driving and promptly find myself lost and very afraid.

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"Out with the Old and in with the New": Using Find and Replacê in Microsoft Office (VOL038)

Monday, October 26th, 2009
Welcome back to the podcast!
This week’s edition…

Welcome back to the podcast!

This week’s edition…

“Out with the Old and in with the New”: Using Find and Replacê in Microsoft Office

I’m a bit of a digital packrat. I keep everything. Not only do I keep stuff, I also have multiple back-ups of the documents I have saved.

I suspect I am not unique, either. Recently, I was talking with a colleague and she admitted that she keeps everything too – but she never goes back to use it again. She said she makes backups so she has “just-in-case” copies, but readily admits that she creates the same documents over and over again from scratch.

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"My Keys are in the Freezer” OR “Lost and Found" (VOL037)

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast!

This week’s edition…

“My Keys are in the Freezer” OR “Lost and Found”

We have all had one at some point in our lives – you know the interesting little morning argument with your spouse about why he or she moved your keys. Darn her incessant tidiness! Why did I marry someone who is so clean and neat?

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My Treadmill Clothes Rack and Rolodex Bookend

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
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Exercise equipment and organizational systems have at least one thing in common: many more are purchased than are used for their intended purpose. All of us know why most treadmills become clothes racks; it has to do with sweat. Today the Taskmaster will offer insights into why organizational systems are abandoned in hopes of helping you find one that won’t be. There are five main reasons for organizational system abandonment.

  1. Too Much Overhead. If a system requires too much effort relative to the effort that it saves, the return on investment is too small and it is abandoned. Multitudes of bells and whistles are great if your goal is to make a lot of noise. If your goal is to get organized, take an Ockham-ish approach by choosing the simplest system that can do the job. (more…)

Taking Shortcuts Through the Widescreen Zone (VOL036)

Thursday, October 8th, 2009

There’s no denying it. Computer monitors are growing to wild proportions. Have you seen the size of these things lately? Pretty soon, we won’t even be able to control them. We’ll eventually build a monitor so big, it will enslave the human race! Then it will find a way to watch Hulu on us. Oh, cruel fate!

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Planets, Bullets, and Numbers…Why Can't We All Just Get Aligned? (VOL035)

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Welcome back to the podcast! This week’s edition: “Planets, Bullets, and Numbers…Why Can’t We All Just Get Aligned?”

Have you heard? We’re all doomed! You may have even seen the signs. Well, you may have at least some signs being held by some very “out-there” kind of people wandering the streets in front of your favorite coffee house.

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