August, 2010


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Aug 10

prop 8 revisited

this is my response to a thread on facebook that got me fired up:

“This issue is not about church and state – there are plenty of non-religious folk who are prejudice.

Rather the core issue here is a matter of governance – regardless of how you feel about this issue – the BASIS of the judge’s decision is to… say that moral preference is not a sufficient reason to “deny rights.”

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Aug 10

los angeles does not care

this morning my wife asked me why we are getting the la times delivered to our house – i had purchased a subscription but decided to donate it to a local school – so the times is sending us and the school the paper every day – so okay.  i took the paper this morning and saw an article talking about how kcet is struggling (the l.a. based pbs station).  in reading through article this stuck me:

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Aug 10

gtd – the elson way

so on my quest to be personally more productive i have realized that the reason the gtd system (created by david allen) is meant to centralize a persons life via one in-box.  well for me an inbox literally means my email.  if something is not emailed to me it does not exist (i am still trying to figure out a way to make text meaningful to me in this respect, but that is elusive as well).  the problem for me is that i have four separate email accounts that i do not like/want to mix.  one for work, one for consulting, one for personal stuff, and one i use to sign-up for all of my accounts.  so having one inbox for my life is out of the question for now – and i like it that way.

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