Thanks Jack, you made my Friday my friend because I was fighting feeling badly about it and now I don't.

Drew I'm literally falling off my chair reading the last part of your comment. Okay, only a real gangster could use the 'who put this thing together' riff from Scarface as a persuasion technique to use with your special lady. I love it. I heard Bridesmaids was good so maybe I'll have to give it a try for the first time.

LMAO Cheryl - Literally!

Drew it's official, if you can appreciate the genius of Delonte West, you're interesting and I certainly do appreciate your unique, well thought out observations.

Amen on the gravelly voice: If there is a 'Dark Knight Rises Again' and Bale's gravelly voice does indeed get deeper in 'The Dark Knight', Delonte West gets to be the Bruce Wayne replacement if I have anything to say about the casting. I'm still recovering from the awesomeness that is his visit to KFC YouTube video (how did I miss it all this time? ). Drew I love your comments above: You need a blog man, it's official.

You give me a float and I will sing 'We Are the Champions' for you as Herr Dirk. Can't wait to kick off the celebration!

Rich, I'm familiar with it and I'm not a user of Topicscape. At a gut level I like it, it's almost like an RTS (Real-Time Strategy) Game for your information. Given that it plays nicely with MindManager and PersonalBrain, I would have no qualms about using it if I felt the need. Even though its about 4 years old, the following blog post by Chuck Frey captures it pretty well: http://mindmapping.typepad.com/the_mind_mapping_software/2007/03/review_calls_3d.html Hope it helps Rich.

Drew, thanks for the kind words and I laughed my ass off when I read your above comments. I think if Lebron were to become my client it would involve something to the effect of: (A) At his next free agency he's a Cavalier for the league minimum. (B) He gets 2 - 4th quarters off in regular season games - that's it. We all need a mental health day or two... the time for that is not in the playoffs. I'm hoping Ohio would embrace me at that point, you know bringing home the prodigal son at a pain & suffering cut rate. Even Lebron would probably love coming to Ohio and not getting booed at places like Cedar Point, Cracker Barrel and the DMV. Plus my contract with Lebron would involve wording to the effect of 'all of the Mountain Dew, Chipotle and heiresses I could handle for life' (okay, kidding about the heiresses, Kyle is many things but gold digger isn't one of them). And Drew are you trying to say a socialite with a sex tape is not classy? C'mon now, sex tape is synonymous with class and culture. For example, I give you Kim Kardashian. Omm....

I could be convinced...

Ron, any time the world's not hearing from you it's a tragedy and I mean that with a lot of gravity. Please let me know when you start blogging again and I can't wait.

Thanks for your encouragement. Already feeling the delightful heat of my monthly deadline ;).

Hi Coach, Click on the link in the upper right of the blog that says 'RSS feed'. You can then view the XML or select a web-based feed reader. Let me know if that helps.

Marc, I don't know any shortcuts to the ResultsManager contexts. Does anyone else? Something in my gut says someone in the ActivityOwner ecosystem may have done something to this effect. What you will notice, in the 'ResultsManager' ribbon bar in MindManager, is when you hover over any of the actions, it's shortcut key is listed. For instance, if you hover over 'Someday', it will bring up a bubble with the shortcut: Alt+E, AS. Once you've added Someday/Maybe to an activity, using the shortcut key again would make it committed. Use it again and it would go back to S/M. Also, many users customize their quick access toolbar in MindManager to have their most frequently used ResultsManager commands (and anything else from MindManager they like). To do so, click on the downward arrow to the right of your quick access icons and then select 'More Commands'. It's pretty intuitive from there. Marc, I hope this helps.

Rich, I can't find anything about an upgrade on their product page or purchase page. I recommend you contact them directly for more details on next actions you should take as it's a reasonable question: http://www.matchware.com/en/contactus/default.htm Regarding the Office integration, it strikes me as, overall, on par with MindManager's. Basically, it talks to Word, Outlook, Excel, Powerpoint & Project. Very similar to MindManager. Brandon showed me some of the Outlook & Excel sync and it seemed very comparable with similar interaction methods. You can find more here: http://www.matchware.com/en/products/mindview/features.htm#Integration_with_Microsoft

Bill, it's too bad the comments between Plaxo and Typepad aren't synchronous. I'm sure Plaxo would rather be the portal everyone goes to to connect, so I'm not surprised it works this way. Thanks for the great links and thoughts in our Plaxo dialogue. Have a great Memorial Day!

Robin, Cool post on GyroQ, layering the text in boxes: a bunch of geniuses over at Gyronix if you ask me ;). Kyle McFarlin Gyronix