A friend told me about this cool little script called Clipboard2Phone he found on LifeHacker. I installed it this morning and have already used it several time. It’s one of those little things that simplifies my life in a big way. Very cool.

Description from Lifehacker:

“Clipboard2Phone is a simple script that emails the contents of your clipboard to your cell phone with a key combination you define. Especially useful for sending phone numbers to your mobile – which will most likely make that number callable in one click – Clipboard2Phone comes in handy for quickly transferring any kind of information you need on the go, like a todo list, shopping list, driving directions or just a reminder to your future self”

I’ve used this website to polarize a few pictures like the one below. You just upload any image and it gives it that Polaroid look.

With daylight savings taking place last Sunday we turned all our clocks forward an hour. The clocks on our computers and Tivo did this automatically. Tivo even sent me an email reminder. Those clocks on our stove and microwave took a few minutes to change. The digital clock in our Honda Odyssey is the easiest to change because it has two simple buttons: Hour and Minute. I pressed the hour button once. Done. It’s so simple and straight-forward I don’t know why other companies don’t copy their design. The BMW was pretty easy to change but I had to pull out the manual. Next time I’ll know that little skinny knob that I assumed reset the trip computer actually sets the time.

As I was getting on the train last night I noticed the digital clocks at the station hadn’t been updated. Now maybe setting the clocks at the train station is more difficult than I know. Entirely possible. But wouldn’t you assume that, along with airport clocks, those at the train station should be as accurate as possible? Maybe the guy whose job it is to change the clocks called in sick Monday? But here it is Tuesday morning and as I got off the train and looked up to see the station clocks still a hour behind.

According to this sign at King Street station, I have an hour and 17 minutes before my train departs.

I’ve been wanting to create a Squidoo Lens for a few months now but couldn’t come up with a good topic. I thought that a good topic might be something where a simple Google search doesn’t returns the results I was after. Well, that finally happened a few weeks ago when I started looking for sport sedan comparison tests. I was after the most comprehensive tests that are normally written by magazines such as Car & Driver, Road and Track, Automobile, and Edmunds. But it took a lot of searching through sites to eventually find the best comparisons.

So I gathered the information I’d found and created my first lens: The Very Best BMW 3 Series Comparison Tests

I’d love to hear if you’ve come across a good comparison that I’ve missed.

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I know it sounds like a fad and very may well go the way of Friendster. But that doesn’t make it any less addicting. I’m talking about Twitter.

If you give it a try go ahead and add me if you’d like. Here’s my profile.

The Happiness Project lists a number of items that make an office comfortable to employees. How many of these does your employer provide? Or do you feel like Milton from Office Space?

1. There’s a wall behind you (so no one can sneak up behind you)

2. There’s a wall to one side (too much openness makes you feel exposed)

3. Your workspace is 50-75% enclosed by walls or windows (so you have a feeling of openness)

4. You can’t hear workplaces noises that are very different from the kind of noises you make at work (you concentrate better when the people around you are engaged in similar tasks, not very different tasks)

5. You can face in different directions at different times.

I’m not a huge fan of Microsoft Powerpoint but I did like this quote from Guy Kawaski that I came across at the Business Rules of Thumb Wiki:

“The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points”

I’ve seen checks with pretty flowers, waterfalls, and mountain scenes. I once bought a box or two of checks emblazoned with my alma mater’s colors and logo.

But I’ve never thought about ordering checks with pictures of Donny Osmond in various poses. My brother-in-law told me about Checks Your Way that prints up check in such categories as “Family”, “Dog”, “Cat”, “Scenery” and “Donny Osmond”. Given that Donny has his own category makes me believe that Checks Your Way had so many requests for checks with his image they couldn’t help but give Donny his own category.

I’d like to get a box or two with the following pose just to see people’s reactions.

Dave Winer details his experience of trying to find someone to repair his water heater. Years ago this type of crappy service would only make the rounds around those you could tell in person. But with blogs the good, bad and ugly have a much further reach.

Do you live up to your name? Or as Dave found out, this water heater company couldn’t live up to it’s online hold message.

“I recorded their hold-message, which ironically tells you how important water heaters are (I know!) and how much they care, and how professional and responsible they are. That I had enough time to think of recording it and actually do it gives you some idea how much time I spent on hold”