Monthly Archives: August 2008

If You Keep Doing What You’ve Been Doing …

… You’ll keep getting what you’ve been getting. And, you’ll keep not getting what you’ve not been getting. I say this for my benefit as well as for the benefit of any of you who can use the reminder. It’s … Continue reading

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How Can I Follow All the Advice from Productivity Blogs?

There are two answers to that question: You can’t follow all the advice of productivity blogs. Nor should you. Did you know that more than 100,000 new blogs are added to the Web every day? Staggering isn’t it? I’m not … Continue reading

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If You Are Thinking of Buying an iPhone or iPod Touch

Thinking of buying an iPhone or iPod Touch? These articles might help you make a decision. Forget the iPhone — the iPod Touch is Good Enough Kevin Purdy of Lifehacker talks about how he saved money by getting the iPod … Continue reading

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Setting the Record Straight

I’ve spoken often on this blog about the importance of having an open mind. Yet, I realized today that I have been hypocritical in regard to this. I discovered this when I was writing an email to Steve Pavlina. He … Continue reading

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Tunes from Keener

I had the great privilege of chatting with Buster B. Jones for a while this evening, and decided it’s about time I dedicated a tune or two to him. He has been an enormous influence on my playing and I … Continue reading

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Getting The Most Value from Your Delicious Bookmarks

I know that several of you, like me, use the Delicious bookmarking service, and so I am sharing some thoughts with you on how to get more value out of that service. It is my hope that the power users … Continue reading

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Converting a Bootcamp Partition to NTFS

Since about a third of my regular readers use a Mac, I thought I would share my experiences in converting my iMac’s Bootcamp partition to an NTFS file system. When I first set up a Bootcamp partition on my iMac, … Continue reading

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Links You Can Use, 19 August 2008

Links to several interesting blog articles are provided below. Digital Nomad provides a very interesting video of advice from Marshall Goldsmith on flying. The video is only about 6 minutes long and is an excellent investment of time for those … Continue reading

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What McCain and Obama Read

To find out what McCain and Obama regularly read, check out this Google Power Readers in Politics page. When you click the “See All” link for the each candidate, you are presented with a list of links to what they … Continue reading

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Stress and Procrastination

Stress kills. So reducing stress is pretty important, wouldn’t ya think? Now I know some of you are thinking “what do you know about stress, Keener? You’re retired, so what could stress you out, dude?” Well, it turns out that … Continue reading

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