NYC Area — Parent on NYC Nonstop @ 7PM EST

By rickColosimo / April 2, 2009 /

NYC Area — Our friend and fellow REED parent Shelly Milstein will be on the Nightly News with Chuck Scarborough on NYC Nonstop tonight, LIVE at 7 PM Eastern. Oh, and Suzanne Wright of Autism Speaks will be there too. (Ok, I’m biased.)  Here’s the place to find the right channel for your cable system.

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Use self-BCC to tame your sent folder

By rickColosimo / April 2, 2009 /

Over on Simplifying Complexity, I recently doubled one of our software bounties from $250 to $500. Here’s a deeper background on the topic: Unlike people who use their sent items folder as a giant bucket to keep track of things they sent to people, I prefer to BCC myself and then file the actual email I…

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Deflect “pre-distractions” before they steal focus

By rickColosimo / March 27, 2009 / Comments Off on Deflect “pre-distractions” before they steal focus

Lifehacker recently highlighted a “tangent log” idea from another writer. I thought the concept sounded familiar and realized that my colleague Pierre has long included the “Add to to-do list” page as part of the journal he discusses in his “Accomplishing More with Less” workshops. I’m slowly migrating toward using a paper journal (Moleskine Ruled…

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Why is AV still so hard to set up?

By rickColosimo / March 5, 2009 / Comments Off on Why is AV still so hard to set up?

I am currently attending a conference related to special education law. This fact isn’t critically relevant to this post, but it explains why I was sitting at a table this morning watching the presenters try to get their laptops working and then wait for the inevitable “tech guy” from the hotel to come sort it…

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