Last year we invested heavily to conserve energy at home and on the road. We bought a Prius and replaced an aging furnace with a hybrid energy system (heat pump plus high-efficiency gas furnace). Today we got a report card from Puget Sound Energy, our utility company: “we’re doing great” based on a 12-month analysis [...]
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As a new owner of a Kindle DX, I was really hoping to fall in love. But it didn’t happen. Here’s why. Print PDF
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A francophile friend is eagerly trying to buy French books and periodicals for her new Kindle DX. She splits her time between Seattle and France, and would love to consolidate her reading materials electronically for practical reasons. Fueled by optimism, she bought a third generation Kindle last Friday. She loves Kindle’s promise, but disenchantment is [...]
To help you get more value from my postings, I added the LinkWithin widget to my blogs today. This widget can automatically suggest, for any new post, related stories found elsewhere within the blog. I’m still getting a feel for what it considers to be “related” — and am already chuckling at some of its [...]
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I’m delighted to get back some control over my privacy settings in Facebook. Unlike Facebook’s founder, I believe I own my relationships, and I should be in complete control over who gets to see what. Having said that, I’m upset that Facebook forces me to waste so much time monitoring my privacy settings and profile [...]
Lately I find myself engaged in conversations about people’s desire for a more balanced, nourishing, or purposeful life. With friends, family or even professional colleagues, certain topics keep cropping up: exercise and wellness, yoga (or my friends’ passion for Nia), life/work balance, relationships that nourish, meaningful work. On the flip side: frustrations with dispiriting, soul-sucking [...]
Today I managed to have fun while working. At long last I set up a personal Facebook page and uploaded some family photos. At the same time I transferred files and apps from a 2-year-old MacBook Pro to a brand new MacBook Pro (one of the models released earlier this week). I got the first [...]
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My friends think I’m a closet geek and tease me for being somewhat technically adept (except when they want tech support). Today I was almost convinced of that myself. I went off to an early morning class at Yoga Bliss, and then before changing out of my yoga wear, updated my business blog’s framework to [...]
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As a busy yoga enthusiast, I sometimes wonder what would happen if yoga studios within a given metro area agreed to an “Open Table” model for class bookings. (Open Table is a centralized reservation service for restaurants that operates in major cities, including iPhone and other smartphone apps.) In an ideal world I’d take 6-8 [...]
Tags: MindBody
We’re in the midst of refinancing our home, to take advantage of the current attractive rates. It’s been an eye-opening experience to see how the process has evolved since we last refinanced 5-8 years ago. The lenders’ reliance upon web-based data collection services has certainly eased our burden, Print PDF
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