Since January I have been trying to remove paper from my daily life.  This is for sure a big hairy audacious goal but one I think is achievable. I started off the year trying to use my HP Laserjet All-in-one printer to scan my documents and store them in an electronic archive.   Wow, a lot of work.  In order for anything to be useful it must be easy. I ended up giving in and buying a Fujitsu ScanSnap.  This is an expensive piece of hardware for such a limited function but it is proving to be well worth it.  To be fair you do get a Pro copy of Adobe Acrobat which does not come cheap either....

Keeping my desk clean and organized is always hard to do with the spaghetti like mess of wires coming off my laptop.  Apple has not introduced a docking station for their MacBook line so I have always relied on my iCurve laptop stand to assist the the clutter.   I found an interesting concept from Henge Docks which has made a nice do-it-yourself kit for making a functional docking station.  It helps that it looks cool too when you are done. Rather than using a “master port” like most Dell or IBM docking stations do to clip into the Henge Dock merely utilizes the ports already on your...

I was lucky enough to receive a pair of Vibram FiveFingers for Christmas last week.  I asked Santa for the KSO model since they seemed to be the best fit for my goal needs.  If they work out well I will likely have to move up to the KSO Trek. After wearing them around the house all weekend I found them to be comfortable and easy to wear.  I have rather short toes and a wide foot so I was concerned about the fit.  They fit perfect on my big toe to heal which is important.  The other toes are a little roomy in the ends, especially my pinkie toe but I still have a good “like a glove”...