You know me, I don't like to complain

I’ve had a fever for the past few days. I had a sore throat last Thursday but though it was all going away. I have no idea what bug I have, but it is really starting to get old. I’m bumming around the house and napping all day.

Over 4,000 people read my GTD Whitepaper in two days. I’m glad it was noteworthy and helpful to so many of you. I will be committing some new changes and additions soon, a lot of great feedback and questions have come to me via the 43Folders Board, which is a fantastic discussion group for GTD users.

A lot of the feedback has been surrounding DEVONthink, which almost magically makes sense of a vast library of reference material I’ve accumulated over a decade. Apparently there is no parallel for Windows users. There are a ton of information managers for Mac OS X and a few good ones for Windows, but nothing, and I mean nothing, comes close to DEVONthink Pro. It is the most invaluable research tool I have.

So what happens on a sick day?

I still follow office emails and home emails, and I do lightweight project work. My @home context card gets whittled away leaving only things that require more brain power and motor skill. It is a great day to catch up on my !later tag on del.icio.us, and catch up on low-priority things.

I can flip through Someday/Maybe for something easy later. Most of the active projects I have right now require coordination and/or a fully functioning brain.

I have a wallet from Jimi and it is easily my favorite accessory so far.

As you can see, they also sell a clip for Jimi that holds SD/MMC cards or SIM cards. Killer.

Fantastic Wal-Mart round-up on MediaMatters today.

Couric: Wal-Mart “is as American as mom and apple pie”:

On the March 21 broadcast of NBC’s Today, co-host Katie Couric introduced a report on Wal-Mart’s expansion of its retail business in China by telling viewers: “It’s a company that is as American as mom and apple pie.” Couric did not say whether the following practices are also “as American as mom and apple pie.”

I first met Ben at House of Web, a geek-hive outside UMD in Maryland in 1997 or 1998. He died, and is now no longer with us. He is survived by everyone he ever met, because he was just that kind of person.

His homepage was one of the first of its kind, back when we were all pioneers homesteading and claiming a new medium as our own. That something as obvious as death could happen to one of us is unthinkable at times, all too possible the next.