Archive for January, 2008
Quadrant I: Delegate or Die!
Urgent and Important
I seriously considered not even writing about the first Quadrant of the Time Management Matrix. I’ve written previously about keeping tasks from sliding down the slippery slope towards becoming both urgent and important, so I figured that I’d already covered my utter hatred for getting stuck working in Quadrant I. That being said, [...]
Do glasses make the man?
Link is to an advertisement for Oogmerk opticians in the Netherlands, which is just brilliant and potentially viral.
(I don’t look like a butcher sans glasses, though admittedly I do look a few years younger!)
Testing Perl Support for Google SyntaxHighlighter
I’ve been enjoying playing with Google’s SyntaxHighlighter. Another user came up with a Perl brush file, so I thought I’d give it a shot. One note from the author of the brush file is that -> gets converted to -> rather than being translated properly. It’s definitely the highlighter that does it, too, because when [...]
General Task Collection Triggers
I mentioned task collection as a GTD concept in my post about the Second Quadrant of the Time Management Matrix. I find this to be an utterly invaluable experience, and even MORE valuable when done on a regular basis. The last time I read Getting Things Done, I copied his list of common task collection [...]
Tips For Resume Writing From a Hiring Manager
I’m still in the midst of staffing frenzy at work, though things are looking better than they were. I suppose the impending recession is to the benefit of some. On average, I seriously read about 10-20 resumes per day, and about twice that on Mondays to account for the weekend. Most of these resumes are [...]
Quadrant II: Making those other plans
Important but not Urgent
I love to plan. Making lists, brainstorming, hypothesizing. I love it all. If I could design my perfect day, I wouldn’t do a single urgent thing. Rather, I’d spend the time getting done anything that I thought could become urgent in the near future. Everyone would think I was so completely on-top [...]
NewsGator Products Now Free!
NewsGator, the makers of RSS readers such as FeedDemon and NetNewsWire, have decided to go the free route for their consumer products rather than continue their subscription model. I’ve been using FeedDemon for quite some time (and NewsGator Inbox before that), so I’m very happy to seem them make this decision. I’ll ignore the fact [...]
Quadrant III: What happens when you’re busy making other plans
Urgent but Not Important
Lennon said:
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
He could have been talking about the Time Management Matrix when he said this. I’m nearly certain that he wasn’t, but his quote is no less applicable. Life happens in and around every single plan you’ve made. It does not [...]
Playing with Chyrp
I’ve started playing around with Chyrp, a new blogging engine. The test site is here.
First impressions are positive - it seems to deliver what it advertises, though I’m not having any luck with the video posting feather. I’ll toy around some more and post any interesting findings.
Quadrant IV: The Procrastinator’s Corner
Not Urgent, Not Important
According to The Time Management Matrix, activities that are neither urgent nor important fall into Quadrant IV, a position that I refer to as “The Procrastinator’s Corner”. These are the trivial, unimportant things that you do when you don’t want to do anything in Quadrants I through III.
This is solitaire. This is [...]
