Organization: Fruux Synchronizes Your Contacts, Calendars, and To-Dos Across Systems, OSes, and Devices for Free(via @Lifehacker)

If you’re wedded to one platform, it’s a good bet you already have a tool that keeps your life synchronized and organized pretty well. For those of us who have to deal with multiple platforms, multiple computers and mobile devices with multiple operating systems, and work with people who use different ones than we do, there’s Fruux, a free service that keeps your to-dos, calendars, and contacts in sync on almost any platform.

Organization: Use Springpad as Your New Personal Assistant: Get Organized, Save Money, and Have Fun Being Productive(via @Lifehacker)

Few people actually love organizing their calendars and projects—there’s nothing terribly exciting or sexy about most productivity tools once you actually sit down and start using them.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…Dr. Seu
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it’s surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It’s not to have a detailed plan of everything that you’re going to do. You can’t plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.

Nothing quite so frustrating as just wanting to go home after work and relax, and being without power for hours. Sure, I could have used it as an excuse to go to sleep early, but I didn’t want to sleep. And I don’t own nearly enough candles to pull of anything so relaxing as a candlelit bath. I think I’m ready for next week now; this one’s not really an improvement.

This weekend I had to go through a closet of things…I found a stamp collection which no one seems to be quite sure about. A Sega Genesis 16/32 bit, and a box of games. An Atari and box of games. Some pictures of me as a kid. And my high school yearbooks and a photo album of someone I never want to see again. My mother is bound and determined that I may want it. Someday. No day, in this life, can I see that happening. So I told her she could keep it, as I’m not about to waste closet space on it. Bad enough it mucked up my weekend.