New Village Church Site Online. The culmination of about six months’ worth of work, and I’m pretty happy with the result. For more information on the new site design, check out the colophon.

Pareto’s Principle: The 80-20 Rule. To maximize personal productivity, realize that 80% of one’s time is spent on the trivial many activities. Analyze and identify which activities produce the most value to your company and then shift your focus so that you concentrate on the vital few (20%). What do you do with those that are left over? Either delegate them or discontinue doing them.

They’ve Outsourced Santa. So true.

Thou shalt not skim flavor from the holidays. Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the volcano. Repeat. My sister sent me this as an email forward today. Hilarious.

Dude, sweet.. Linguist professor studies the use of the word “dude” (via Tom).

Rands: How to lose your job, part 1. The definition of a healthy business is a business which is growing and by growing I mean it is making more money each year. There a bazillion different ways that a company can create this growth, but the basic law of business physics that you should never forget is ‘as a business grows, so shall it’s employees.’

Can you hear me?. I’m coming to find out that organizations are as much about being seen getting it done as they are about getting it done.

Movable Type + Comment Spam = Dead Site. Makes one want to take a weekend to convert one’s site to WordPress, doesn’t it?

Multitasking makes you stupid. ‘It doesn’t mean you can’t do several things at the same time,’ says Just, co-director of the university’s Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging. ‘But we’re kidding ourselves if we think we can do so without cost.’ (By way of Johanna)

Popperian Software Design. I’ve had this one on the backburner for a bit, but just finished it. Laurent makes the case that software designs are supposed to explore bad ideas as well as good ones.