Whatabreakfast

Some things in life are just fantastic.

One of these things is eating breakfast at two in the morning. Bonus if you get delicious, greasy fast-food egg-cheese-sausage-tortilla, hashbrowns and OJ. Further bonus if it's at a joint that you never grew up with- for me it's Jack in the Box, Whataburger, or Waffle House. Double points if you get to break your fast with your brother.

My brother reads del.icio.us more than I do. If you're not in the loop, Delicious is a social bookmark manager. You throw a little bookmarklet into your browser, and when you click "remember this," you get to describe and name your bookmark, plus tag it without retriction. In other words, Bob may bookmark my blog and tag it "cool funny blog" whereas Fred might tag it "insightful to_read_later weblog neworleans" and Fritz may tag it "blog peopleiknow blogger blogs funny interesting neworleans" and all three of them plus everyone else can look up and see what they've bookmarked and how they've taggeed it. So you may want to see what's shaking in terms of puppies, say: http://del.icio.us/tag/puppies, and you can see what others think.

It's really cool and I don't utilize it fully.

A recent bookmark sent he (and I) to 30 Days to Success by Steve Pavlina. Here's the concept in a nutshell. Remember shareware? The old try-it-for-thirty-days-and-if-you-like-it-send-me-twenty-bucks plan to get people to use software? The idea first happened back in the early eighties and is still rocking all these years later. (Windows users, I know you haven't paid for WinZip yet!) Steve takes the shareware concept and applies it to picking up new habits. So you pick something you want to do but don't want to do, and commit to doing it for thirty days. If you actually don't like the habit, drop it. If not, it's easy as falling off a log to keep up the habit, and bam- you're doing your thing.