Or at least I did. I jogged four rounds at the Cebu City Sports Center oval today and walked another round, with Me First and The Gimme Gimmes and Ramones threatening to bust my eardrums.
I have an eclectic taste in music and my playlist leaves people I know bewildered. Bob Dylan gets mixed with Pavarotti, [...]

I’m a huge fan of TiddlyWiki, a standalone web page that you can edit through a browser for just about anything: to-do lists, notes or any other text data. I’m an extensive user of one of its derivatives: the Zope server-based ZiddlyWiki but before that, I used GTDTiddlyWiki, a version that incorporates a getting things [...]

Researchers using advanced brainscanning technology “are beginning to show that meditation directly affects the function and structure of the brain, changing it in ways that appear to increase attention span, sharpen focus and improve memory,” Time reported.
The magazine also reported that “one recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation thickened the parts [...]

David Seah’s printable CEO is an excellent guide on which tasks to tackle first and which distractions to deal with later. It lists various answers to the question: When is something worth doing? The answers are color coded and come with points, ranked based on their importance to your goals. Seah uses it to track [...]

I’ve long wanted to try taking programmed naps or power naps. Studies have indicated that there are health benefits to taking regular naps. The National Institutes of Health in the United States said “evidence is mounting that sleep - even a nap - appears to enhance information processing and learning.”
I don’t get a lot of [...]

Here’s an interesting tip from Steve Outing in Poynter’s E-Media Tidbits: put an indicator in your e-mail signature whether your e-mail is private or “bloggable.” With most people owning blogs nowadays, Outing says “it’s worthwhile to make it clear when something you’ve sent in an e-mail is meant to be private.”
I tweaked my signature to [...]