Remember that your brain is a creative organ with limitless creative possibilities — but it makes a really crummy whiteboard.Focus on action – My favorite productivity book, “Getting Things Done” highlights how anything you want to do in life eventually comes down to intentional physical activity — even if it’s something as mundane as “take out trash” and “call Mom.”… “Call Jim about strategy” is a very do-able “next action” that keeps the ball in motion.Get out of your inbox – Many of us are habituated to living out of our email inbox, voicemail, and the other “in baskets” of our lives…. Stop allowing yourself to be brow-beaten by the latest, loudest, or most dramatic item that’s landed in your world.Get pickier – You are the sole person in your life who gets to decide where your time and attention can go.

(Via Swissmiss)

Benji:> Also, wiir Katholiken haben (im Gegensatz zu den Reformierten) schon vieeel länger Gleichberechtigung praktiziert – wir haben immer gleich viel Werwölfe wie Hexen auf den Scheiterhaufen gebracht.

Yet another thing for my growing queue of books I have yet to read … stumbled several time over it, I guess it’s time to try it out.

Until now, we never had to resort to desperate measures … better hope it stays that way.

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This one is for the playing community around me (given the playing community is reading my blog, which I doubt …)

Carcassonne in Gingerbread – the whole shebang. Read all about it on the baker’s blog Awesome! (via BoingBoing)

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Okay, ich spiel wieder mal Slacker-Blogger: «Wie berichtet hat die Migros ihren feinen Holunderblütensirup aus dem Sortiment genommen und durch ein anderes, reichlich ungeniessbares Produkt ersetzt. Ein findiger Surfer namens Roger hat nun im entsprechenden Posting die Bezugsadresse für den guten alten Sirup eruiert – wer also der Migros ein Schnippchen schlagen will, kann den identischen Sirup einfach hier bestellen. Mjamm.»

Henry is wrong.

Well, of course, every Mac lover has to fall over that headline like a hyena …Allchin, who has headed various aspects of Windows development since the mid-1990s but plans to retire at the end of this year with the shipping of Windows Vista, later wrote in the same e-mail that he would buy a Mac if he was not a Microsoft employee, according to transcripts from proceedings Thursday and Friday in the class-action case obtained and posted by Groklaw.net, an open-source legal Web site.[Windows development chief: 'I would buy a Mac if I didn't work for Microsoft'][1], via [macnews.de][2].Looks like there are at least still some sane people left. Well. Partially sane.

(Keine Angst, diesen Post müssen wirklich nur zwei Personen kapieren.)Nur dass das mal gesagt ist: Ich hab eigentlich nichts dagegen, Farbe zu bekennen — zumindest solange das nicht das [Tragen von rosaroten T-Shirts][1] einschliesst.

Looks like this is the next installment of BoingBoings seeminly neverending stream of Science Fiction novel recommendations: Peter Watts, who apparently writes gritty, dark and fast paced SF.

Click the pic — appeared like this just moments ago in my Google Reader.

Looks like I bought my dinner table far too early. Visiting [BoingBoing][2], I stumbled over this:It is a circular table which, when rotated at its outer perimeter, doubles its seating capacity, yet astonishingly remains truly circular.The expansion leaves are stored within the table and, in just four seconds, smoothly and quickly emerge upon rotation, rising and radially expanding outwards as the entire top is turned through 30˚. Existing tables can seat six persons when small, and twelve or more when expanded, but there are other design possibilities.Just watch the [videos][1] – that looks amazing.

There are some artists that deserve to be loved simply because of their chosen moniker. T. Raumschmiere definitely belongs to them.