Neologism: wimplicity - what results when you're afraid to add any more features.

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After Merlin posted about this cool little get-simple wallet, I had to have one. My old leather hip-brick is beginning to cause chiropractic problems, and I'm all about getting simple these days.

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After A's IEP meeting today, we had the opportunity to use one of my personal favorite terms, high-up mucky-muck. Jodi always gives me a weird look when I use it, so I decided to finally look the durn thing up. After a few false starts, I found the origin on answers.com - It's actually "High Muck-a-muck":

Though I'm generally a geek, I work in publishing, so I've started paying more attention to some academic and writing-related blog posts that have come cross my radar.

After a longish hiatus - due to a delusion that I wanted to change domains - I thought I'd drop back into the swing of things.

Mike McCracken shares some tips on how he uses VoodooPad to manage his life. I love VoodooPad, and have a huge document that I use to track a multitude of projects, applications, resources, and notes; it's especially useful for work.

I couldn't resist - the headline used in the local paper was too good. The aircraft carrier Oriskany, veteran of the Korean and Vietnam conflicts and base of operations for Senator John McCain while he was a Navy pilot, is being sunk off the coast of Florida to create the largest man-made reef to date. I'll bet that's going to be a wild sight.

I'd say someone had waaaaayyyyy to much time on their hands, but really I just have fantasies of being the guy who built this aircraft carrier out of LEGO. (Via Bill).

Scotch egg:

Iterating features and getting them right:

Huh. I got an invite to Google's new Pages application. It's not bad, as these things go. But there's not a lot to tempt your basic power user.

Mac OS X Mobile:

Ta-da Lists widget:

9 tips for running more productive meetings:

I've talked a good bit about TiVo on this site, and on my early forays into listening to podcasts on my TiVo by way of the TiVo Desktop software (most recent tivo+podcasting post here ).

Jodi's new iMac came with Apple's Photo Booth software, a mostly useless but addictive little app that takes a picture of the user with the built-in iSight camera.