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Tools of the Trade: GTDAgenda

Posted in Resources, Software, productivity on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve been asked by Dan at GTKAgenda to review their online task management/ planning application. I’ve mentioned previously Todoist which I used for awhile. After a few days of internet outage (web access issues is one drawback to being a country parson) I began using tools that don’t require an internet connection. [...]

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Tools of the Trade: Snopes

Posted in Resources, preaching, productivity on February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Every once in awhile I have a concerned member of the congregation bring a petition or a message they received through email.  Sometimes it’s about a sick child who’s wish it is to receive cards from all over the world.  Other times they have news of a supposed threat to the Christians from atheist lobbyist.  [...]

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Why Churches should use Open Source, Part 2: Common Values

Posted in Resources, Software, productivity on January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Last week I tried to explain what open source and open formats are. This week, before looking at more practical reasons, I want to touch on the first reasons, namely that churches and the open source community share a lot of the same values.
I’m convinced that too much of the church (here in [...]

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Tools of the Trade: Todoist

Posted in PastorHack, Resources, productivity on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Todoist is an online todo or task list utility. I tried several such sites because I wanted something I could access from my laptop or desktop without having to sync the two. I also like knowing it’s backed up elsewhere.
There are several additional features that makes Todoist really useful: gmail [...]

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Quote for the Day:

Posted in productivity on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good, but the well-reading of a few, could he be sure to have the best. And it is not possible to read over many on the same subject without a great deal of loss of precious time.
- Richard [...]

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My Firefox Setup

Posted in Resources, productivity on June 7, 2007 | 4 Comments »

I switched to firefox as soon as my brother-in-law introduced it (and tabbed browsing) to me. It is highly customizable thanks to the huge number of add-ons. My browser is now optimized for research, here’s how mine’s set up. Anyone have any other favorites?

Quick Searches: these bookmarks let you set up [...]

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