The Lifemuncher Diet Plan

So here's my latest diet plan, based on the arcane and complex principle of eating less. I bought myself some cheap plastic containers (about 50 cents each) and pre-packed a couple weeks worth of portion-controlled salads, mixed vegetables, snacks, and cereal. On weekday mornings, as I'm heading out the door, I'm usually too lazy or distracted to measure out proper portions or make myself a salad, so I'm admitting my weaknesses and doing it ahead of time. This way, I can just grab a Lean Cuisine, a salad, some veggies, and some fruit and throw it in my bag.

Without this planning, it's much too easy to pour a little too much cereal into my bowl, or heat up a too-large serving of leftovers, or eat potato chips from the bag without paying attention to how many handfuls I'm consuming. Hopefully, planning ahead will pay off, and I'll be able to fit into my clothes again.

Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops

Does this story tell us something about the value of paper and the distraction power of teh internets perhaps?

“The teachers were telling us when there’s a one-to-one relationship between the student and the laptop, the box gets in the way. It’s a distraction to the educational process.”

Old interview with David Allen

What's the work that you need to do to figure out the work you need to do when the work you need to do doesn't let you know the work you need to do?

- David Allen

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Wridea = thumbs down

I tried out Wridea today, which is supposed to be a web application for tracking ideas. It's a pretty slick interface, but once you start playing around with it you realize that it has a lot of limitations. There's very little in the way of tutorials or ideas for ways to use it. Then, when you check the corporate blog, which hasn't been updated in six months, you start to get the sense that it's not exactly a booming community. For me, the dumbest thing is that you can add categories to your notes, but not search for them. What's the point of that? You can't even pull up a list of ideas with the same category. The outdated blog promises these capabilities in a future release, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

Wridea

Wridea is a Web 2.0 tool for capturing and organizing ideas. Kind of interesting, but it seems to me you can do the same thing with regular text or document files. You could even share them on Google Reader.

I'll give it a try and report back.

My homemade Circa PDA

Free shipping on Levenger Circa products

Fellow notebook fetishists, you can get free shipping on Levenger's Circa products through May 13! It was the perfect excuse to order myself a Circa PDA. Since I can't wait for it to arrive, in the meantime I created my own bastardized Hipster PDA using leftover Rollabind rings and index cards. I'll post a picture of it later. So far I think it's really cool. The Levenger portable punch works perfectly for punching index cards. You don't even need the guide. I find myself grabbing an index card to take notes during a phone call, then punching it and sticking it right in there with my task lists and reference material.