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Continuous Incremental, Personal Improvement

I am an optimizer. I try to optimize nearly everything in my life. This, I think, is why I tend to spend so much time on personal productivity, time management and other persona...

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CISCO Password Revealer

I haven’t had much luck with any CISCO clients on the mac. Inevitably clients will send me a CISCO profile configurations that I can’t easily use on my mac. I went searching for...

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Battling with Word and Excel

I recently had to build a word document that references fields in an excel spreadsheet. Since this report will update over time from data in the spreadsheet I wanted it to pull ...

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Using the ConfigurationManager to Access your ConnecitonStrings in the Web.Config

This is just a quick post because I couldn’t find this information easily available on other sites. I knew there was a quick way to access the connection strings from the web.co...

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New WikiRater Features

I’ve been working to add a few more features for WikiRater that I think are really cool. The one that I’ve had the most fun with so far is the “Trending Article” page. This page...

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Manage Energy Not Time

Recently I was forced to work only 6 hours per day. On the surface this seems great, I immediately started filling my time with other things that I’ve wanted to get around to, b...

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Goals, Results and Activities - defining your productivity

I think that it is important to properly define the terms that we use when talking about productivity. Since these words are somewhat subjective it matters more that you have a ...