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Rhodia & Cheese
Since I love cheese, this delightful email caught my eye…..
“There once was a family obsessed with cheese, when offered fromage they always said please! Their quest for cheese took them quite far, discovering how passionate they truly are! So they plotted and planned to bring it all home, NO longer for cheese will you have to roam! We have cases to fill and floors to mop…bringing the village a little cheese shop!” 
“My sister and I are opening a cheese shop in our home town! Alongside cheese, we want to showcase all of the products we’ve grown to love/need!”
“I love my Rhodia notebooks. From symposium notes + travel journals (aka universal pictionary) to new purveyors + tasting details for our shop, I can’t imagine jotting them in anything but my trusty orange Rhodia!”
Thank you, Lydia! Rhodia + cheese fans, Claremont, California has a place just for you! Please visit Claremont Cheese when their site is launched – claremontcheese.com – and in the meantime follow them on twitter – http://twitter.com/cheesecave.
New Pen Makers
Are pens and notebooks making a slight comeback? I have noticed that even people who manage most of their calendar and communications by a blackberry, iPhone, or some other kind of electronic devise still like to to carry around a notebook for meetings or to record their ideas, private thoughts and observations. They also carry a pen. Or two.
Along with the surge in notebook interest have come some new pen makers. Three new pen companies I am following are Edison Pen Co. in Ohio; The Goulet Pen Company in Virginia; and the Norsk Workshop in Florida. You can also follow them on Facebook: Brian at The Goulet Pen Company, Patrick at Norsk Workshop and Brian at Edison Pen Co.
I hope to get to meet each of them at a pen show in 2010, where I will leave poorer but much happier!
Do you have a new or favorite pen maker to recommend? Are you considering entering the field?
GTD+R
Kenji OHTA runs a blog called GTD+R, based on GTD (Getting Things Done), the popular action management method as applied to Rhodia notepads.
A beginner’s guide to freelancing
Phil Gyford has a checklist on making the big switch from working for someone to working for yourself.
When is something worth doing?
David Seah’s The Printable CEO does not promise to clear out your task list, but it makes you feel good that you did make progress. Setting goals around a bubble chart makes it fun too.
