Lifehacker, one of my favorite place on the internet, started a series a while back called “How I Work”, which details how various internet/tech/media personalities work. It gives some interesting insights into the habits and technology behind many people who…
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Clearing the Baffles (III)
It’s been a while since I had baffles to clear, but nonetheless: Software For A New Laptop (categories: geek life, how-to, software notes, windows) Choosing Between Good and Good (categories: management) Finding Notebook Zen (categories: geek life, geek habits) 1…
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Set Up WebDAV for iCal Sharing on ubuntu 8.04
Enabling WebDAV for iCal publishing/sharing is fairly straightforward: 0. Install apache2 (if it’s not already installed): sudo apt-get install apache2 1. Create a WebDAV directory in your DocumentRoot with the proper permissions: mkdir -p /var/www/webdav chmod -R 777 /var/www/webdav 2.…
Clearing the Baffles (II)
Three months ago, I “cleared the blogging baffles” and actually found it fairly cathartic. Based on that, I set up a task reminder to remind me to do just that every three months on the 20th. Here are the posts…
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Cygwin Prompt Here (for tcsh)
In a post I can no longer find, Scott Hanselman blogged about a registry entry to add a “Command Prompt Here” item to Windows’ right-click context menu. This has, many times, saved me almost 30 seconds of opening cmd.exe and…
Reading The News With Little Time
Keeping up with the goings-on in the world seems to be harder than normal these days. Maybe it’s life and maybe it’s work, but it seems like I have less and less Quadrant 2 and 4 time lately. [I’m not…
Do Your Work. Don’t Be Stupid.
My productivity has noticeably improved since making this my desktop wallpaper. As soon as Outlook gets minimized I see this… and it’s back to work! Via InterfaceLIFT, by Spargett.
Clearing the Baffles
Kevin, a buddy of mine from grad school, recommends the zen-like experience of disclosing your drafts and then deleting them. I only have three at the moment, but nonetheless: Rebooting After Tough Crititcism (tags: management) Using Outlook to Get Things…
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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…
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…
