Blended Living

• Market looks like it may be building a base to make a move up
• but tomorrow may show us if SP500 has a floor at 900
• dollar made a turn and moved 10 cents quickly (vs Eur)
• Oil has dropped under 40 despite OPEC cutting back production
• I think Oil in the 30′s is a great opportunity for a buy and hold for a few months
• sell when it makes 50-100%, might take a few months to about a year and a half
• still think the market bottom will be sometime in the spring or summer
• unless there is some major sea change event
• like another war, major attack, or aliens landing
• states are being crunched in the middle  between
• federal policies that are shrinking funds and
• rising unemployment rates
• which could hit 10%
• the MTA raising rides 23% is a huge slap in the face of NYers
• Madoff news is dominating attention
• its the witch hunt and will be the poster child of this downturn
• like Enron was
• want to play with phpBB to launch a way to record predictions
• and other market news and ideas
• new HD channels appeared on my cable box
• but many of the content is still SD
• that’s annoying
• I’m becoming an HD snob
• but blue ray is still too expensive.
• and they have to fix that long load time thing
• 42+ inch 1080p LCD and blue ray player with DVD recorder for under a grand
• that’s my price point.  maybe 2009?

Gmail recently added a tasklist in their labs section.  Its a rudimentary attempt and is pretty good for a first try.  Its nice to have this every time you open your email.  With some time maybe they will integrate it better with the other tools available, like calendar, etc.

Remember the Milk, or RTM for short, is another free website to load all your tasklists.  It has a strong following, and if you use firefox there is a nice plugin to better integrate it with Gmail and Gcal. They also have a Pro version for $25 a year with a sync program for iPhones, Blackberries and Windows Mobile phones.

I’m fairly new to using an online tasklist consistently, as I have been using a combination of paper and PDA for this function, but realizing recently that I’m about 95% of the time within arms length of WiFi, I thought I’d try an upgrade. I like what I see with the combination/integration of RTM, Gmail and Gcal.  There are numerous keyboard shortcuts and some nifty features.  I’ll see how I feel after a month or so.  It should be easy to GTD-ify also.

I almost pulled the trigger on that Radio Shack deal for the Acer Aspire One netbook and ATT mobile broadband, but the $60 a month for 5GB data is just too limiting.  This however might be a sign of the future, subsidized tiny laptops, or netbooks with data plans.  Give me a more realistic data plan and I’ll be there to buy it.