Monthly Archive for November, 2007

If you’re a keyboard warrior whose hands are increasingly achy after a hard day’s work, you might look for help beyond the obvious (i.e., ergonomic keyboards and mice, wrist rests, keyboard trays).
Help for you might be hanging in your local craft store. A long-time favorite of mine, I found my first Handeze gloves hanging alongside [...]

The e-mail came to me at work one day, bearing the Subject line “Would you sign a petition to ban this substance?”. It started as a joke, passed around the office to see how many of the adults were fooled by it. It triggered a thought in my own mind about a) how unnecessarily convoluted [...]

Every year during the holiday season, I drop money in the Salvation Army buckets I pass on the way in or out of a store. A few coins here, a dollar bill there, a five dollar bill that I just got in my change at the grocery chain. Alone, it doesn’t seem like much…a drop [...]

In my other life, I work with a guinea pig rescue, handling their PR, various online projects, and public education appearances. As such, I have presentations in long and short versions, for adults and for kids, for solo talks and for crowded adoption open houses. When you do this enough, you convince yourself that you’re [...]

Lest any writers think our profession has the market cornered on procrastination, we’re reminded that workers in any field can fall into this nasty trap.
TechRepublic offers a 10-part (well…actually…9-part) crash course in mastering the art of procrastination. Lessons include:

Learning what procrastination means.
Knowing the history of the art.
Avoiding task prioritization.
Fostering short attention spans.
Find something infinitely more [...]

There’s a lot of dreck on YouTube, but every once in a while I’m made aware of something that is…I think…really good.
Shared with me by a friend, this YouTube animation called Women In Art blew me away.
First, I was envious of what its creator was able to do with whatever graphics/animation/morphing software they used. Second, [...]