Today’s BTS post with regular musings over the past few days of simplification coming within the next few hours…

Behind the Scenes!

The last seven days have been sporadic, simplification wise, however fruitful:

Day 20: Water on a Simple Saturday

Drink Water… simple.  Almost too simple.  Yet noteworthy - like my inability to write a full sentence right now. I should add though, in creating this habit I’ve realized it’s best to just carry around water wherever you go, for me that means bringing a camelback to new york (adding that to my bag of course).  I also heavily recommend Sigg bottles, or flasks <~ if that floats your boat.

Day 23: The expedition grows weak and hungry

Paraphrasing the three days after Day 20, I discussed Delicious, ToDo lists, and focusing your life goals!

Day 24: Mail, Snail Mail, and E-mail

Simple, cutting down on all bad mailings, opting out of everything I don’t use (while still trying to go paperless).  Pontification and longer google searches yielded a wonderful post from Unclutterer that helped immensely.

Day 25: The almighty pushup

Exercising is so important, and pushups are wonderful benchmarks when assessing physical ability.

FreeTalk

You may be wishing to ask me, where are the posts?  Where’s the media?  Well the easy answer is just life getting in the way, however this should not suffice as actual explanation.  Really, my day job has forced a slowdown…  Now I’m not going to ask you for money; how annoying requests for money from baby blogs can be. I’m not letting you off though.  I ask, fervently, and relentlessly… with no shame, that you continue reading this blog.  I may be updating slowly, but… I just don’t want to lose you, you know!

I’m already through week three?  This is crazy.  Anyway, video uploading is taking a bit of debugging, so for now, this regular post will have to do!

What I’ve been reading:

• DIY Education: Teach Yourself (Lifehack.org)
• Archive Your Text Messages with Treasuremytext (Lifehacker)
• Protect Your Privacy When Downloading (Lifehacker)
• ROM CHECK FAIL: All the best classic games in one (Download Squad)
• Re-Tweeted - 73 Top Posts from the Last Week (Problogger)

This Week at 0wn1t.net:

Day 18: Google Reader

Discussed simplifying my blog reading!

Day 17: What would you need to go Paperless?

Set a personal goal of going paperless

Day 16: Social Networks and Privacy…

Worked on stripping down social network profiles.

Day 15: How Massive is your Library?

Discussing Book Crossing…

Day 14: Morning Routines

Worked on putting non-digital morning routines first.

Day 13: Bills, Bill, Bills

Argued making bills easier to organize and pay.

FreeTalk:

Almost everything was digital this week, I think next week I should change that.  I’ve been simplifying my digital life without looking into simplifying my physical life… stay tuned!

Yo, once again here’s a look behind what I do here, and have been doing this week.  Its been a slow week for this blog, but jampacked everywhere else - lets do the usual!

What I’ve been reading

•  Check eBay Auctions for Sneaky Stuff with Auction Inquisitor (Lifehacker)
• 36 Great Tips for Keeping Travel as Simple as Possible (and Two Poems) (Zen Habits)
• Download Music from Your Friends’ iTunes Libraries Over the Internet with Moj0 (Lifehacker)
• Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software? (Slashdot)
• Turn Insomnia into a Productivity Boost (Lifehacker)
• Aggregate Your Online Social Life with FriendFeed (Lifehacker)
• Beyond Test Taking: Learning to Handle Information (lifehack.org)
• How Surveillance Hurts Free Speech (EFF)
• How To Green Your Wardrobe (Treehugger)
• Vendor-neutral Linux certs becoming popular (Thru Linux Today)
• EXCLUSIVE: ‘Mongol’ Poster Premiere! (Cinematical)

Recap 0wn1t Week 2

Day 06: MOOOcards… yes, I said it.

 Created business cards through Moo.com

Day 07: Outlets

 Discussed carrying around a moleskin notebook.

Day 08: Expressive Financial Distress!!

Discussed working on my finances to break down my debt and increase savings in the simplest way possible.

Day 09: Meditation

An hour of meditation daily!!

Day 10: Twitter, Tweet, Tweet!

Twitter!!!  Discussed social networks, and my plan to only update one from now on.

Day 11: Zeroplanning

Planning blocks of time as opposed to tasks!

Free Talk

As many of you know (as seen by my last post), my server had gone down.  My provider had scheduled this downtime, however I was unaware of the scheduling.  (OPPS!)  Next time, I should be more careful. (and subscribe to DHstatus on twitter)

Anyway, this gave way to much needed reflection.  Honestly (although I’m now officially two days behind in posting - I will get those up I’m so sorry!!!) I need to work on content.  I’m sooo worried about people finding the site and reading it, that I’ve been slacking on actually going through and explaining what I’m doing.  I think you all would really enjoy these things if I was clearer too.  SO, I will definitely get to content control, savvy?

 If you’re wondering, this’ll include photos, video, and other explanations of what I’m doing personally.  This blog is partially professional (hints and such - I’ll be putting these together for a small e-book manuscript) and partially personal (following me!) and I’ve been too scared to jump into either realm… So I’ve split it into being professional suggestions, and personal responses to those suggestions…. eventually this may split into two daily posts with seperate RSS feeds.

Thanks for reading as always, and again… I need more twitter friends!!!! 

Fridays have been set aside to talk about things behind the scenes of 0wn1t.net, summarize the past days, and simply give all of you a look into what blogs I’ve been reading this week… But this doesn’t simplify anything, Kris!! <~ Thing is, it is - for me at least. Friday BTC allows for reflection!  So, on with the post!

What I’ve been reading 
(My favorite posts of the week)

• Run Windows Apps Seamlessly Inside Linux (Lifehacker)
• Make Decisions with the Six Thinking Hats Technique (Lifehacker)
• The top 100 Productivity and Lifehack Blogs (College Degree)
• 36 Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work (Job Mom)
• “A Silent Disco…” (hackCollege)
• 32 Hacks for Sticking to Your Budget (Lifehack)
• 10 HARD Ways to Make Your Life Better (Lifehack)
• 5 Amazing Mac Apps for Getting Things Done (Zen Habits)
• How My Net Worth Went from $-40,000 to $285,000 in Five Years (Get Rich Slowly)

Weekly Summary

Day 01: Resumes and Work Opportunities

Wrote a Master Resume.

Day 02: Work Ethic… Like Actually Working

Set 2 hour blocks for work and play!

Day 03: Joe’s Goals and Ben’s Goals are My Goals

Worked with Joe’s Goals to create manageable task lists.

Day 04: Zero Planning a Calendar

Put together an easily updatable calendar including the blocks from Day 02.

Free Talk (Behind the Curtains)

My foray into blogging began about seven years ago with a few personal blogs about my day-to-day experience.  Moving into a more professional sphere, talking about simplification, has proven to be difficult to stay afloat.  As easy as it may sound, it’s quite daunting worrying whether people will find your small island of information.  On top of that, wanting to stay and read it, I mean wow!  I really take my hat off to every acclaimed blogger out there, congratulations!

This weekend marks the first time I’ll be attempting to market outside of Twitter, wish me luck!