Jeremy Johnstone

This year I set a goal for myself of traveling somewhere at least once per month. So far, I am failing miserably at it due to extenuating circumstances, as I haven’t gone anywhere to speak of yet. Now that things are settling back down and progressing a bit, hopefully I can now find more time to work on that goal. Well, thankfully this weekend I did the first step towards completing my original goal, I booked a flight out of town to Austin, TX so I can go to SXSW next weekend and also visit a good friend or two. I’ve also sat down and thought more about that lofty new years goal and have decided to clarify it a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

Reading Terry Chay’s recent blog post about camera/laptop bags, it made me start thinking about my own camera gear a bit. I’ve been long hunting the “best” camera bag for a long time and have unfortunately found such a thing doesn’t exist or I am looking in the wrong places. Instead I have found several bags which seem to each fit a specific niche of my needs. Read the rest of this entry »

As many of my friends know, I am an avid tea drinker. In fact, I don’t think there is a type of tea I don’t like. While waiting on the Apple store guys to put RAM in the Mac Mini I bought today, I went walking around the mall. Near the Apple store I was strangely drawn to this shop I had never seen before, a place called Teavana. It was the amazing aroma of teas coming from the store which was dragging me in like a tractor beam. Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve been working to find a decent task management app for a while now. My needs are fairly basic, but I’m picky about the interface and usability. Unfortunately, after testing numerous different products I’m stuck with one which has potential but isn’t quite there yet. Here’s a brief review of several of the different GTD/Task Management apps I looked at: Read the rest of this entry »