Twitter Updates for 2008-01-30
- Pont De La Tour deli now has pies from Pie Minister. Lunchtime just got that little bit better (and that little bit fatter) #
- Off to client. Farewell, cruel world… #
- Making microloans on Kiva to buy goats http://www.kiva.org #
- @tomtaylor: who was the Nokia ethnographer-type-person with the blog you showed me the other day? Unusual name that I can’t remember… #
- @tomtaylor & @bru : that’s the one. I was thinking cupcake or kettlechip or popcorn or something #
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Filed under Twitter | Comment (1)Twitter Updates for 2008-01-29
- Need to replace my scanner for 6×6 negatives. Looking to the Twittersphere for Mac-friendly recommendations… #
- @peterjlambert : are we talking Oh. My. Word. Good. or Oh. My. Word. Bad? #
- Deployed, pub, erm - back in the office. Shome mishtake, shurely? #
- LIFT dilemma - do I take a digital camera (portable) or a MF film camera (cooler, but heavier) ? #
- £1.50 postage for a lens cap off ebay? You’re ‘avin a larf?!? #
- kewl - I made it onto Valleywag (well, a photo, at least) - http://tinyurl.com/27jkq9 #
- @peterjlambert: just as well it wasn’t Fleshbot :-O #
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Filed under General | Comment (0)Tickling with iGTD
This is one for the “why didn’t I think of this before?” list. I’m more-or-less settled on iGTD for managing my somewhat pale attempt at a GTD system, but it was bugging me that dated tasks - i.e. those that I’ve got to do on a specific day - don’t really fit into it all that well. There *is* a due date field, but that’s a bit clunky and wasn’t really cutting it - neither was sticking reminders as appointments in iCal, because that was fouling up the sync with my Zimbra calendar. (Difficult to believe that anything could foul up a Zimbra sync *more* than it is already, but that’s a subject for another rant…)
The solution is actually quite simple, so much so that I’m kicking myself that I didn’t think of it before. Canonical GTD would have you set up your 43 tickler files, month- and day-dated. Yeh, right. Like I’ve got space for 43 folders anywhere near my desk, and in any case, the overwhelming majority of my tickles are online anyway. So instead, I’ve set up tickler folders within iGTD - in a month/day subfolder structure - which means the tasks for a specific date are immediately visible.
Hardly revolutionary, it’s true, but it does at least have the advantage of bringing *all* my tasks together into one tool. Now if I could get it to sync with a Moleskine…
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Filed under Working smarter | Comment (0)I Ain’t Dead
This site has been quiet and sporadically updated for a while. It’s partly down to sheer damn busyness work-wise, and partly down to the strange blogging hiatus that seems to strike most my fellow inmates at Headshift - there’s something about working with social software professionally that seems to suppress the blogging urge personally. Which is strange, because it’s not like I’m any shorter on opinions than I’ve ever been before. Maybe a 21st century manifestation of the old saw about cobblers’ children.
Originally a lot of the content here came from various “professional” incarnations of the blog, and my original “personal” blog was kept separate. Then that personal blog disappeared when I rationalised my domain names. I came across a SQL backup at the weekend and found myself thinking “why not put that lot back online?” - not that it will be of any interest to anyone other than me, but the last few years have been quite busy to put it mildly, and it’s kind of interesting to plough back through my archives and see what I was up to. Plus I’ve been browsing through the bios of fellow LIFT ‘08 participants and feeling very inadequate on the blog front.
The downside is that things are now messy - the archives are all over the place, some of the content is personal and some of the content is written from a “we” point of view as it was talking about company-related stuff. Not that this means it makes a lot more sense than usual, but it’s probably even less likely to be stumbled across than it ever was before.
The template has changed, too - I’ve lost the frog for a while and I’m back to a stock template which will get tweaked a bit over time. But only when inspiration strikes, so it might be a while.
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