Intention and Attention

I like beer. There, I said it. I go to the Great Canadian Beer Festival pretty much every year. I have graduated to the level of “connoisseur” in that I’m more than willing to throw away a sample of beer I’m not fond of, even if it has cost me a couple of bucks. I generally don’t drink […]

This past weekend, I read a tweet from C.C. Chapman that really hit home. Never seen a visual RSS reader? Check out Pulse on an iPad and you’ll see why photos in blog posts are more important now.#blogchat At first I somewhat dismissed it, seeing as my goal with Vardy.me is to engage readers and

I started this journey towards becoming The Productivityist as many people do. I needed and wanted to be more productive. I’d invested a ton of time learning and trying productivity tips and tricks. So much so that I realized I was “doing productive” instead of being productive. Years ago I had an epiphany regarding my

Well, the iPad 2 was announced today. And I can’t get it until March 25th. If I was going to get it, that is. Not that it isn’t an intriguing device, because it is. If I didn’t already have an iPad, I’d be all over it. But I don’t need the iPad 2, even though

The second writing app I put through the paces in my ongoing experiment to find the best writing app for my iPad was Clean Writer. And while I’m not necessarily disappointed by it, I’m also not thrilled with it, either. And that’s not because it doesn’t deliver the goods.

I think that the word “ideally” has become a crutch. Or maybe we’ve just forgotten that the word has more than one meaning. Ideally – a: conformably to or in respect to an ideal; b: for best results; c: in accordance with an ideal or typical standard Whenever you hear someone preface something that they want to (or are planning

My mind is still pulsating from the two days of talks I took in at this past weekend’s IdeaWave conference. So, I’m going to give my brain a break and let you in on what I talked about at the conference. What follows are my notes from my talk, The Power of Paper. I didn’t

This is what came out of my head and onto a small piece of yellow paper during Dvora Levin’s1 IdeaWave talk “Everyone Can Write a 3 Minute Love Poem” presented during the first day of the conference. She provided the template, and we were to add our own modifiers during the process. Her template is

A week of writing, a week of talking and a week of preparing for more talking. That’s been my week. Dyscultured #122 The crusade of OpenMedia tops the list of links we explored this week. In addition to serious topics like worldwide revolutions and the battles underway on the web between torrent sites, Google and