Notebook of choice?

That depends on what I'm up to. I have yellow legal pads all over the place strategically placed so I can grab one when I need one. At home this has become problematic as my children will raid my yellow legal pads for their scribbling and random stuff. That's just the price of being a DAD I guess.

Since I come out of an engineering background I have a tendancy to use serialized ledgers and such for ideas and project notes so I can go back in time and figure out what I was thinking when I did something. At home I have these in various places and are mostly by subject. For instance I have one for programming projects, one for my beer brewing and another for keeping track of my experimental recipes (developing hot sauces and Buffalo Wing sauces right now.) For my recipes and brewing I can then easily keep track of what went right and what went wrong with a particular batch of whatever.

On top of all that I have three different Palm OS devices two of which are actively in use. One of my personal goals for this year is to develop an application for the Palm that will allow me to track progress in my dogs' training and agility trial results.

Writing Implements

I really don't have a favorite per se because I lose them so readily. In fact I have been running around the last week without one because I just lost the one I was carrying previous to that.

As for the technology of the pens I prefer roller ball pens of both the 0.3mm tip and the 0.5mm tip. Black is my preferred color and that preference is probably a hold over from my days in the US Navy where everything was supposed to be written with black ink.