Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Welcome to 703


This one is for Steve Hayman. Just so he knows when he is my territory. I could also make it “DCA” since he is most likely to enter via that route. 571 would also have been an option (as an overlay areacode), but 703 will always be “Northern Virginia” to me.

Trying a Moleskine

I’ve seen people use them, read about them, and now I’m going to try one. I like to take notes on paper in meetings because most computer use in the meetings I’m in is people doing other things (not being a part of or paying attention in meetings).

I’ve used notepaper I printed and put in a 3 ring organizer I have and it works pretty well, but it is a bit big. I want to get to the point I carry just a few things:

- iPhone (to replace the Blackberry and iPod Touch I usually have now)
- MacBook Air (to replace the 6.5 lb Dell I have now)
- Moleskine (to replace the full size organizer I have now)

Since the first won’t happen until I work for a company that supports the iPhone as an option, and the second won’t happen until I shell out the bucks myself, I figure I’ll start at the bottom and work my way up the list.

So I’m looking at options to make the most of this, since it does need to have some components of my organizer (quick reference sheets, business card holder, etc). The iPod Touch/Blackberry will probably take the load on contacts and other bulk info (as I’ve used it more for recently).

Here’s to a new system that I will hopefully stick to and get value from.