• To properly back up you need three copies. What is your workflow? What services work best for you? – I’m still figuring out a backup solution. I’ll checkout what others are doing for some ideas.

• Saving for Baby’s College versus Saving for Your Retirement – A no brainer. Retirement wins.

• Craigsphone brings Craigslist to the iPhone – A CL iPhone app. I’ve been waiting for someone to release this.

• Baby’s 1st Year Videos: Your Newborn Instruction Manual – Complete with videos!

• That bad call is still bugging the Celtics – Boo Hoo.

• Video: NBA’s Top 10 plays of the season thus far – Brandon Roy for the win! (#1)

• Kobe Bryant uses lots of technology, is addicted. – Interesting.

• Unison – Mac OS X Usenet newsreader – Trying this out.

• MacPAR deLuxe – PAR to rescue missing RAR’s.

• Clever and original new iPhone App: iSteam – Useless but fun.

• How Marbles are Made – It’s more complicated than you think.

• Free Mac Screensavers – Some good ones.

• PolarClock -Interesting clock screensaver.

• Screen savers live – A nice list of ‘em.

• YouTube – RadiumZ Gaystation – Too funny. It’s OG from The Joe Show!

• Michael Chiklis Developing Ponzi Scheme Drama For FX – Sweet. Will watch.

• Keep in Touch with Friendbar – A firefox add-on for Twitter and Facebook.

• 3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late – I’ve always known.

• California Texting-While-Driving Ban Effective Jan. 1 – Don’t text your friends with the news.

• Best Of 2008: The Great Best of 2008 Roundup – Loads of cool stuff here.

• The 100 Most Popular Private Trackers Of 2008 – They are tough to get in.

• Tips for Getting a Baby or Toddler to Sleep Through the Night – Much needed.

• SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Spec Finalized: It’s Fast – Over 4 Gbps per second! Can’t wait.

• SHOUTcast launched on the iPhone/Touch! – Cool.

• If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 – The Windows 7 Beta runs well.

• What Yahoo Must Do to Survive – Sell to Google.

• Just Tweet It – Find like minded people on Twitter.

• Question of the Day: Where Do You Buy Gadgets Online? – Good to see where people are buying from.

• Roadmice, Cruise the web in style – A police car optical mouse. Want.

• HdrHelper – An iPhone app to assist with creating HDR photos. Cool idea.

• Subversion on OS X with SCPlugin and SSH+SVN – SCPlugin for SVN is great.

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• Google Connects Calendar to iCal – I’ll stick with Spanning Sync.

• Spanning Sync – Sync iCal and Google Calendar – Fantastic service which syncs your Google contacts and calendar with your Mac.

• OnyX goes 2.0 – It’s free I’ll try it out.

• Who Do YOU Want To Jott? – Jott is a voice to text service. And a good one. I’m going to start using it.

• Why the Wii and Xbox are killing Sony’s PS3 – I still want a PS3 anyway.

• Stanza: Turn your iPhone into an eBook Reader – Who needs a Kindle when your iPhone is already just as capable.

• Top iPhone Apps according to some random people – Some good ones I’ll have to check out.

• Book Review: Scott Kelby’s Lightroom 2 Book – I got this book. This review seems to think I’ll enjoy it.

• Apple ‘Netbooks’, Eh? – I’d love to see an apple tablet. Something a bit larger than the iphone.

• Timbuk2 Bags – I want a messenger bag (a Jack Bauer man purse) The bags from this company look great.

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• CopyAllUrls – Supporting Firefox extension from the link above.

• SiteLauncher – Firefox extension for fast launching websites using keyboard shortcuts.

• For Amazon, Netbooks Are a Smash Hit – 17 of the 20 best selling laptops on amazon are Netbooks.

• I Hate the Baby Names He Loves! – Glad to know this happens to other people too.

• Apple OS X 10.5.6 Update Breaks Some MacBook Pros – I think I’ll wait until this is worked out before I update.

• FlashGot updated to version 1.1.7 – This Firefox extension is worth its weight in gold.

• The Best Tech Lists of 2008 – An interesting read.

• iphoneandkids.com – For when Luka gets older.

• ⌘+⇧+L and other useful OS X hidden features – A nice list of OS X keyboard shortcuts. I need to take the time to learn some of these.

• Sony HDC-3300 HD Super Motion Camera at Boston Bruins Hockey on Vimeo – An amazing video which shows behind the scenes of an HD sports production.

• senduit | Share easily. – A simple service to send files to friends. Drop.io is still my preferred service for sharing files.

• The misadventures of Gina Garbero: a Single Girlie Urban Hipster Fashionista Socialite… – The Blog of Gina Hansen whom I used to work with.

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• So you just got an iPod touch — now what? – A good read since we just bought Nadine’s mom an iPod Touch for her birthday.

• Stop junk mail! Opt out of junk mail & stop postal junk mail with GreenDimes – An interesting service which works on your behalf to stop snail mail junk mail.

• TheScramble.com: Family Meal Planning – We may try this out. The service provides healthy meals, and the shopping lists for said meals. No more “What do you want for dinner tonight?”

• Cat on Joe – The admin of the Cats as Hats group on Flickr requested this picture be added to the group. I agreed. There is a Flickr group for everything.

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I’ve always had this stereotypical bias towards geeks so naturally I cringed whenever I was associated with the term. But then I got to thinking… maybe being a geek isn’t so bad after all.

Take Chuck for example. The TV series about an “average computer-whiz-next-door”. He, defines geek. But somehow he pulls it off and is considered “cool” and even dateable by attractive women. They ask him out dates, not the other way around. You’ll see no groveling from him. I bet he doesn’t know any pickup lines as he doesn’t need them. Other examples include the movies Napoleon Dynamite, and Harry Potter.

But outside of Hollywood in the real world, teenaged hotties go around wearing t-shirts that proclaim, “I heart geeks” (available, along with a whole range of geek-themed products, online at places like Café Press) and magazines like Wired publish lists counting down the sexiest geeks of the year.

I’ve determined that women (and people in general) love geeks. Geeks are smart, successful power players in a world defined by technology. Smart women have figured this out and are flocking to the power, security, and wealth that come built-in to her geeky lover. One might even say she has upgraded to Boyfriend 2.0

Jocks and Jerks are you hearing me? Your days are numbered. I suggest you get an account over at FriendFeed (where all the coolest geeks hang out) and ask them to teach you something geeky. Like Twitter for example. Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll take pity on you and tell you what Twitter is and why you need it.

Without really realizing it I’ve slowly submerged myself into using a lot of technology. Over the years I’ve used more and more types of tech such as: (but not limited to)

Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed, WordPress, Ubuntu, RSS, Delicious, Google Reader, DSLR, Lightroom, Ping.FM, Pandora, Vimeo, Digg, Meebo, Toodledo, StumbleUpon, Furl, Skype, FeedBurner, Feedly, Zoho, Bit-Torrent, IMDB, RTM, Dash Express, FTP, SSH, TinyURL, XHTML, CSS, PHP, Java, and PGP.

If were to mention to the average person the tech/sites/services/products mentioned above it would be unlikely that they have ever heard of ANY of them. However I, use most of them everyday and couldn’t imagine life without them.

I have a gadget addiction, a well known geeky trait. My pockets are generally filled with all types of tech. Listing all my gadgets in this post would be futile. So I won’t even attempt it. Besides that’s what the awesome Delicious Library 2 is for.

Also, I’ve followed the ramblings of prominent geeks such as Robert Scoble a self proclaimed “Tech Geek Blogger” for many years.

In light of all the evidence stacked against me its time for me to man up and admit that…

I am a boneifide geek and I’m no longer ashamed of it.

I wouldn’t consider my self as geeky as Chris Pirillo who plasters his face all over the web with true-to-the-term geeky expressions. I’d say I’m (hopefully) more of a balanced geek much like Josh Bancroft who does a great job with integrating his geekiness into his work and family life.

So, the next time she calls me a geek I’ll know thats exactly what she wants me to be. Which is just who I’ve always been. Then I’ll thank her for helping me to realize and be proud of it.

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Looking back, my RSS reader has been filled with people I felt I should be reading.  Let me repeat that – should be reading.  I think that’s a problem. I felt like I needed to watch TechCrunch to stay on top of tech news. I felt like I needed to subscribe to experts in my field(s).  Sure, these subscriptions were educating me and raising my awareness, but I seriously question the cost/benefit.  Reading them felt like homework – and I don’t like homework.

Although I recently pruned my feeds from 600 down to 400 I’m thinking of going down to WAY less.

My time is better spent on more important things.

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