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11/16/2009

  • My First Trip To The Philippines

    I’ve had GUYS in the Philippines for about 4 years now.
    This was my FIRST trip!
    You don’t have to go there to make it work. That’s one of the great things about the Philippines.
    While I was there for 2.5 days I recorded quite a bit of video of my observations and experience.
    I [...]

9/2/2008

  • My Remote Control Toilet Seat

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    Since I was on a roll with my blog, I thought I’d also talk about the most recent technology that changed my life.
    Night light…
    Heated Seat…
    Heated Water…
    Pressure Control…
    Heated Air (For after…)
    Settings for Him, Settings for Her…
    It’s Perfect!
    We were playing Apples to Apples the other night and [...]

9/1/2008

  • The Unthinkable Just Happened – 6 Years Of Digital Pictures…Gone!

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    Fortunately, I had about 16 different backups of them…so it wasn’t as bad as it sounded.
    But, what if that just happened to you?
    What if your hard drive failed?
    What if Windows just went crazy and won’t boot?
    What if your computer just failed and you can’t turn [...]

1/1/2008

  • Why I Don’t Do New Years Resolutions

    Isn’t it funny that we do these things we call “New Years Resolutions” where we swear to ourselves that we’re going to do something.
    Yet…the whole point of these things is that we’re going to put off doing them until the new year comes.
    And, since you don’t start something on a Tuesday, this year [...]

10/19/2007

  • Turning Your SmartPhone Into A $1,000,000/Year Tool

    Over the past few months I’ve become semi-obsessed with productivity because of my BlackBerry.
    After reading David Allens “Getting Things Done” and having his system change my life I have stumbled upon/created a system for personal productivity that uses technology to make me more productive.
    If you’re not paying the $20/month to be able to do email [...]

7/4/2007

  • Why the Gmail Archive Button Changes Email

    My wife just told me she needs to switch to gmail. A few times recently she has deleted a message from yahoo and then wished she could have it back a couple days later.
    The archive button in gmail is great in that you don’t need to delete messages anymore. Instead of deleting, simply [...]

6/15/2007

  • Working instead of blogging

    I’m in the middle of Timothy Ferris’ book The 4-Hour Work Week and it prompted me to write this blog entry.
    He talks about going on an information diet. Not reading the newspaper, watching the news, reading blogs, talking on the phone, going to meetings…
    I decided a few months ago that I was going to [...]

2/23/2007

  • The Secret

    A few weeks ago I saw “The Secret” dvd, a movie put together by Rhonda Byrne with a bunch of successful people in it including Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, and Joe Vitale.
    When I saw it, I immediatly identified with it because I have seen the “law of attraction” in my life over and over again. [...]

9/18/2006

8/21/2006

  • New verb in our house – To Miox

    This morning I was feeling a stomach ache and I thought it might have been because of some bad water I drank over the weekend.
    After a little bit of moaning my wife asked me:
    “Did you miox yet?”
    Mioxing to us means mixing up a batch of extra strong water using my miox water filter and then [...]

8/8/2006

  • GTD Best Implementation Online

    After my last blog entry about GTD I did some more research and came across tracks.tra.in, a hosted tracks service.
    It turns out that tracks is a web based application that was specifically developed with GTD in mind. From what I can tell, and from the research I’ve done, tracks is the perfect online implementation [...]

8/2/2006

  • Getting Things Done Plea

    Update: I found what I believe to be the best GTD implementation online.
    This post was supposed to be detailing my implementation of Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen.
    Instead, it’s going to be a plea for help with it.
    See, I’ve been using Backpackit for my implementation for the past few months. Then, over the [...]

6/8/2006

  • Hiking in Zion with small children (podcast)

    This is going to be my first podcast.
    I’m not sure I’ll do this all the time, but I thought I’d try it and see how people like it.
    To tell you the truth I wasn’t totally comfortable with recording it, but sometimes we have to get out of our comfort zone.
    This is about hiking [...]

4/18/2006

  • Using our Food Storage

    Neal and his wife came over 2 weeks ago and showed us how to grow wheat grass.
    Since he posted about it, I thought I’d share how ours turned out.

    Kim is using it as a centerpiece on our table now.
    Yesterday she cut off a bunch of it and mixed it with some pineapple-coconut juice.
    Sure, it smells [...]

12/31/2005

  • Barf-o-rama

    We have these friends, The Johnsons, who have 4 kids. They’re great kids, but tonight I saw stuff I don’t remember seeing in a long time.
    We had them over for dinner for New Years Eve, and had like a snack dinner. We had corn dogs, little barfies (ok, fine, little smokies. I [...]

12/24/2005

  • New House

    On monday this week we moved into a new house:

    It has a great view from my office in an upstairs bedroom:

    We’re pretty excited about it.
    Of course…with moving comes all kinds of fun stuff…

    internet being down for a week
    sick kids
    sick me (yeah, we’ve all been sick for 5 days now)
    no working (at least it’s christmas time [...]

12/15/2005

  • Find IT on eBay!

    Ebay ALWAYS has good deals on stuff
    http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-iTunes-15-Gift-Card_W0QQitemZ5644161666QQcategoryZ31411QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

12/11/2005

  • Some old pictures

    I found these old pictures in my desk while cleaning it out. I was maybe 10? 12?
    Thoughts:
    We must have thought Gretzky was pretty cool to take a picture of his mullet.
    I continued to play hockey with that stick after all the kings signed it. Doh!
    See if you can find something in my teeth [...]

  • Keys to Success – Jim Richie

    About 3 years ago I took an “Entrepreneurial Lecture Series” class at BYU. The class met once per week and had a different entrepreneurial speaker come each week and speak to us.
    After 3 years I only remember a few of the speakers, and remember less of what they spoke about. However, there was [...]

12/10/2005

  • The Dreaded Shopping Cart

    When you live in south Provo, certain things become humourous that wouldn’t be in other places.
    We thought we might actually get away with living in this house for 3 years without having a shopping cart show up in front of our house.
    But alas…in what is likely our last week in this house here is a [...]

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