Kent Beatty on November 23rd, 2008

If you haven’t heard, Twitter is a micro-blogging application that allows you to send tweets (updates – limited to 140 characters) to the Twitter website and your twitter friends. You can find and interact with people with similar interests. You can follow them, and others can follow you. It’s an instant-messaging-meets-social-media-networking tool.
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Kent Beatty on November 4th, 2008

Which of these phrases do you use?
My tally:  used daily – 1; often used – 2; seldom used – 4; never used – 3
I absolutely believe that these irritating phrases are fairly unique at this moment in time.  I personally submit, with all due respect, that it’s a nightmare 24/7 for those who at [...]

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Kent Beatty on November 3rd, 2008

Do you lay awake at night worrying about whether you have your username registered with every site that you should?  Did someone take your username before you registered it?

Username Check Tool

This is very handy, see if the new username you’ve dreamed up is available without visiting each site!
Provided by:  Jon Sykes

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Kent Beatty on October 9th, 2008

 
From About.com -  “Journaling is a great way to reduce stress, process your feelings, better understand yourself, and have a catalog of your life’s events.”
From cnet.com - “I’m not kidding when I say Penzu is the most realistic re-creation of paper I’ve seen on the Web. The service has a serious leg up on its [...]

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Kent Beatty on October 3rd, 2008

This reader will ship in first half of 2009. 
 

It is an 8.5 x 11 form factor

with a large readable display

it’s thinner than a pad of paper (7-mm)

lighter than a business periodical

offers a high quality reading experience

low power consumption & long battery life

 
 

Recorded Sep 8, 2008 with Flip Video camcorder
 
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Kent Beatty on September 15th, 2008

Things to be Desired - good advice for today.

“I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift — a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.” - Max Ehrmann
 
Keeping perspective on life’s big picture

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Kent Beatty on August 31st, 2008

Check out Wordle.net
Wordle was created by Jonathon Feinberg who blogs at Wordle Blog.  Wordles are created from words, text or URLs that you provide.   You can change colors, fonts, orientation, etc.  You can then print your wordles or grab them with a screen capture program - I highly recommend snagit for that. [...]

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Kent Beatty on August 30th, 2008

1 : to give individuality to
2 : to form into a distinct entity

 

 

Do we seek to find ourselves or to repeat dysfunctional patterns?
 

Autonomy - “…self-governance through free volition, not separation or independence from others.”

Two types: individuating autonomy and relating autonomy. “…two distinct of autonomy—individuating and relating—each with superior function in a specific domain of [...]

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