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Top 10 Things You Probably Shouldn't Attempt to Do All at Once Especially at This Time of Year

Submitted by Leo Klein on Sun, 12/19/10 (11:47am)
  1. Move in the Winter.
  2. Move in the Winter -- with you doing much of the work yourself along with your trusty hand-truck.
  3. Redesign the website at work while everyone's off on vacation -- and you ought to be schlepping boxes.
  4. Embark on a 2nd ambitious web project before the first one is complete (see above).
  5. Install that brand new copy of Adobe's 'Master Collection' (CS5) even though you know you could probably do without it for the next week or two.
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Top Ten Things I Don’t Have Time to Talk about Because I'm Working on this Other Project

Submitted by Leo Klein on Fri, 12/25/09 (9:06am)
  1. The way of the world, our progress so far, the meaning of it all.
  2. Why the Cubs will make it to the World Series in 2010!
  3. Why I'll take 'Augmented' over 'Reality' any day of the week.
  4. Why 'Cloud' and 'Disruptive' will finally be put to rest, replaced by 'Heaven' and 'Topsy-turvy'.
  5. Why Daley ought to sell me Lincoln Park when he puts it up for sale next year.
  6. Why I've got time to do this if I'm supposedly working on that 'other project'.
  7. Why our only hope is a three-legged cow with 25% less carbon emissions.
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Top 10 Reasons Not to Pay Attention to My Top 10 Reasons from Last Year

Submitted by Leo Klein on Thu, 12/25/08 (11:44am)
  1. Everything has changed.
  2. If only I knew then what I know now...
  3. Forget 2007. It's 1937 all over again!
  4. Did I even have a 'Top 10' last year?
  5. After a conversation with myself, it turns out that I'm too carried away with the disruptive nature of cloud computing to actually move forward on anything meaningful.
  6. Sorry about No. 5 -- makes no sense to me either. I promise to do better with No. 7.
  7. I'll fight, I'll fight, I'll fight the notion that hindsight is 20/20.
  8. My carbon footprint has no shoes.
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Top 10 Reasons Not to Compile a Top 10 List

Submitted by Leo Klein on Tue, 12/25/07 (12:12am)
  1. Everyone's doing it.
  2. What about 'Top 3' or 'Top 12'? What's with '10' all the time?
  3. I'd feel better about this if it didn't happen in December. Who's got the time? Better in August.
  4. Sorry, I'm not going to bring up the iPhone or the Kindle again under any circumstances.
  5. I'm still waiting for my Avatar to arrive from Second Life.
  6. I'm thinking of doing a 'Top 3,000' over the course of the next 10 years and don't want to commit myself to a measly 'Top 10' this early in the process.
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