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I lived a year in Charleston, SC. It was during my first year of service with the Americorps National Civilian Community Corps. I loved swimming at Folly Beach, eating at Jestine’s Kitchen, concerts at the Music Farm, the isolation of living on the decommissioned Charleston Naval Base and soul food restaurants run by Chinese immigrants. I still have a friend on Wadmalaw Island. I need to go back there, soon. Too bad all of the employment in in travel and tourism or healthcare.

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edit: this appears more and more like a hoax.  -andrew

Everybody asks me if I’m getting an iPhone. My mom asks me, my girlfriend asks me, my friends ask me and my boss asks me. I give them all the same answer. The iPhone lacks three things that I need:

1. High Speed Data Access (aka HSPDA)
2. Laptop Tethering for Mobile Data Access
3. Microsoft Outlook Calendar and Mail Syncing

It looks like one of those may be going away. According to the gadget blog electronista (via Gizmodo ) the Europeans will be getting a 3G iPhone on November 12th. I would assume that means a 3G iPhone in the United States at the same time (unless Apple wants to stir up more internet trouble).

Maybe I’ll just have to wait for the HTC manufactured, Linux powered Google phone?

In the grand tradition of Friday posts having nothing to do with the topic of the blog (wait, this blog has a topic) I hereby announce the return of Friday Kitten Blogging. I shamelessly stole this idea from Bruce Schneier. I consider my version much improved though as he writes about squid on Fridays.

Readers who have been with me for awhile remember Friday Kitten Blogging. It is mostly a cheap ploy to get my mom to read my blog (Hi Mom!). Everyone else can sit back and enjoy weekly images of the Internet’s cutest or funniest kittens.

(Image Source: ICanHazCheezburger.Com)

I love office supplies and productivity blogs. This dual passion was certain to lead to only one place… David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD). Given the aforementioned love of office supplies there was only one logical way I could put the GTD system into action… Moleskine.

For those not familiar the Moleskine is a legendary brand of notebook. Well really it is the reconstituted legendary brand of notebook but we don’t have to get into that. Suffice to say if you are in the market for a pocket sized notebook you could do a lot worse than the Moleskin.

Getting Things Done is a great time management system created by David Allen. The key part of the system for me is getting all of the little reminders in your head out of your head so you can actually think. Basically when you think of something to do you have two choices:

• If the task takes less than 2 minutes do it.
• If the task takes more than 2 minutes put it in a trusted system and come back to it later. 

Once it is in your trusted system you can decide to do it, defer it, delegate it or disregard it. My trusted system includes my Outlook calendar (which follows me around on my Windows Mobile smartphone), and my Moleskine. I categorize tasks into Work, Home, Hobby, Errands, Networking as well as separate sections to track the projects I am working and a section for brainstorming.

If this sounds interesting to you there are a lot of people from which you may learn.

I took a little time this week to setup a site to aggregate all of the Tacoma blogs I read. I am using the Venus fork of Planet. I still have to work on the theme. you should check it out at Planet Tacoma.