The 4 best features of iOS5 (Video 1:25)

Hey all - I made a quick video of the best features in iOS5.  Enjoy.

Somewhere in Stillwater NJ

Hawk Mountain Rain

Morris Plains 9/11 Memorial

After an appointment today, I passed this 10th anniversary memorial and decided to stop for a few minutes to pay my respects.

It was a powerful feeling knowing that this steel beam stood at the exact impact zone where American Airlines Flight 11 struck Tower 1.

The probability of YOU existing

This article blew my mind. Warning: Math ahead.

"So what’s the probability of your existing? It’s the probability of 2 million people getting together – about the population of San Diego – each to play a game of dice with trillion-sided dice. They each roll the dice – and they all come up the exact same number – say, 550,343,279,001."

http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/abinazir/2011/06/15/what-are-chances-you-would-be-born/

Family Minute To Win It Video

Concert Pics with the girls

Big Time Rush at Allentown Fair.

My ear drums still hurt from all the tweens screaming.

The 4 D's of Effective Management

 If you ask most managers - they will tell you that being an effective manager today is significantly harder than even a few years ago.  Reasons range from the economy, attempting to do more with less, and the rise in technology - which has many distractions.

I read somewhere that email is "Someone else's to do list for me." I love that - and I always try to remember it when I browse my inbox while trying to get actual work done.  When navigating through email and the many tasks on my to do list - I've subscribed to the 4 D's:

• Do it
• Delegate it
• Delay it
• Dump it

Do it

Does it need to be done?  Does it need to be done now?  Why wait?  Do it.

Delegate it

Should I personally be tying myself up in this task or is there someone else who can do this?  I've stopped trying to control everything - and delegating completes the task and leaves me out of it. WIN!

Delay it

Many things seem urgent at first.  Delaying will not only give you time to see how important it is - it will allow you to focus on tasks which made it to the "Do it" list.  I've saved emails in the "Delay" folder, and read them weeks later and if I had taken action on them - I'd have wasted my time.

Dump it

I mentioned it above - the worst thing an effective manager can do is to try to control everything - so I stopped trying to.  This lead to me dumping lots of tasks I would normally involve myself in.

What else can you dump?  For a week, try to dump a few tasks you would normally do and see what cause and effect this has on your effectiveness.  You'll be surprised at how not doing things feels so liberating!

Got a tip on how you are more effective?  Please share it below.

Shade illusion

Glass Beach

Glass Beach is a beach in MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg, California that is abundant in sea glass created from years of dumping garbage into an area of coastline near the northern part of the town.

So funny! ULTIMATE Caption FAIL.

Reminds me of my Google Voice transcriptions - but funnier!

Looking for updates? Find me on Google+

I'll be updating my Google+ account, and would love it if you would join me. Please click here.

For more info on what the Google+ project is, check out this video from Google.

Are you a Dad with girls? This made me smile.

Happy early Father's day.

Baby Praying Mantis

Baby Praying Mantis, a set on Flickr.

Shot with Olympus E500 with a 1:1 150mm macro lens.

These little guys were spotted on the bush right next to our front porch.

Looks just like her Mom

Looks just like her Mom, originally uploaded by -SPK.

America's Sport: Tee Ball

Making Google Music Work inside Safari on iOS

I just got my Google Music invite and was excited to be able to use it on my iPhone and iPad through Safari but couldn't figure out how to navigate through songs.

When you first click on a song you can play it by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking the triangle play icon.  Here's where I ran into trouble - if I want to play another song or switch to an Auto Playlist - I could not figure out how to.

After "reading the entire internet so you don't have to", I came across a video where I saw this trick:

Tap on a song to highlight it:



See that little triangle at the end of the title, right before the song length?  Well, tap that and it shows this menu:


 

Tap play song and voi la - you are playing that song now.  As an extra added bonus - you can now play, pause, and skip through your Google Music using the built in icons seen above.

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