I would like to formally apologize for the previous ‘Blackberry PINing’ post. I posted without really taking a good look at that site. Upon further review, one of the following is my opinion of the service:

• don’t get it
• get it and am aggravated by it
• get it and hate it

Being labour day today, it seems timely to post about this whole holiday thing in general. Holidays, and vacations, are yet another concept that has been redefined working in this model.

I generally find out about holidays the week before when someone says to me “you up to anything special this weekend?”

“This weekend?”

“It’s a long weekend.”

The long weekend concept’s lost on me now. I don’t really observe them and typically work on them, a half day today. The same applies to weekends, not that I work them but that I’m far from opposed to working on them. Back in my office days I was vigilant about not working during the defined off hours including weekends, evenings, and holidays.

It’s just all a lot more gray now and to be honest it feels more normal. It’s taken me time to adjust to this but now that I’ve acclimatized to it I prefer it. There’s a thinner, grayer line between work and life, again reminiscent of an older model not a newer one.

I’m trying out ma.gnolia and I thought you should know.

Generate your very own seal if you’re really bored or need yet another useless means of procrastination brought to you by our modern key to productivity, the interweb.

I’m lazy as I haven’t had a chance to explore what exactly this is yet but if you have a blackberry then check it out for yourself. For now, I’ll file it under “I’m not sure I get the point”.

As usual, I have no friends.

Via Chris

By the time I’m done this post I may need a new category. Maybe “Who Really Cares?” or “Confessions of a Dork”?

I carry a fisher bullet pen with me all the time. I’ve tried loads of different small pens over the years and the space pen is the first that’s lasted and actually usable.

For paper, I carry a few recipe cards in my back pocket as well as some of my cards. The combination means I always have paper and pen while taking up little space in my pockets because I’m not a fanny pack guy although I didn’t mind fubar.

Some call this a variation of a hipster pda. I’m not much for calling anything I do ‘hipster’.