December 2007
2007 Photo Review (Pt3 - September to December) -... →
publicenergy takes some amazing photos. I’m linking to the third part of his year in review, because I think it has some of his best ever photos in it - then again, it’s bound to, because he keeps getting better all the time. You should subscribe while
BillThompson’s predictions for 2008 - TechCrunch... →
Not a bad set of predictions there. I like the idea that companies are finally going to get the idea that charging startlingly high prices for WiFi access isn’t going to work. Quite a lot of people now have the Interweb in their pockets, so paying to ha
Breathe new life into your journal with a blogging... →
Interesting idea for journaling - guest bloggers in your journal. Imaginary, of course.
Grids, The Rule of Thirds, and Rethinking Slide... →
Merlin ponders the idea of applying the ‘rules’ for good photography to presentation slides. Sounds like a pretty good idea.
Oh Hai! →
Incoming!
Slimming World 31st December 2007 →
Left - January 2007. Right - December 2007. This time last year I’d given up on making resolutions to lose weight. I’d pretty much resigned myself to always being obese and figured that’s the way it would be until the inevitable health problems took over and I kicked the bucket. However, as you will no doubt have read from previous entries, that all changed back in April when I joined Slimming...
As-they-occur New Year's Resolutions - #1 →
That thing in the corner of our bedroom gathering dust… … yes, that thing. I will dust it down and attempt to play it more often.
a fud is eatn mah fud - LOLCat →
It’s a fud-eat-fud world out there.
How to use Emacs Org as a Basic Day Planner -... →
Sacha explains how to set up Emacs OrgMode for use as a standard day planner - for those more used to organising themselves with a diary than using GTD.
Writing, writing, writing - sacha chua →
Sacha on writing - she’s in the process of writing a book on Emacs, so she’s got a lot of writing to do.
Planner, basic configuration - sacha chua →
The basics of setting up Emacs PlannerMode ready to use it as your planning and productivity system.
Emacs: Getting Things Done with Org - Basic -... →
The basics of doing GTD using Emacs OrgMode.
dear sir, i regret to inform you - LOLCat →
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Everything looks better with Off Camera Flash -... →
Sacha makes the point with a doodle. I think she must have been reading Stobist.
Emacs: Choosing between Org and Planner - sacha... →
Sacha’s notes on why you might find one better than the other. I’m using paper again for now (Mini Filofax), but I’m sure I’ll be playing with Emacs for this stuff again soon ;)
invisible champagne - Lolcat →
Sam's Best of 2007 Awards →
2007’s almost over and done with. The year has been quite a ride for me, exactly as the great man once described with a full quota of ups, downs, thrills and chills. It didn’t start terribly well, though. During the last two weeks of February and the first week of March, I lost my job, our eldest cat died, and a couple of weeks later my Grandma died. Unemployment and two deaths in the space of...
PhotoCommuting - Robert Scoble →
Robert grabs some great shots by just taking a bit of time on his commute.
Hello Kitty AR-15 Military Style Rifle - Hello... →
Arg! →
Diaries - arg! Twitter - arg! Music from flat below - arg! Desk space - arg! Mouse - arg! Browser - arg! Hm. I’m starting to detect a pattern. Maybe I should walk away from my cluttered desk area and open myself a nice refreshing can of calmthefu*kdown. Arg.
Alright Michael, I get it. Now help me. →
I used to take the proverbial out of my husband for the way he’d constantly be fiddling around with his ‘system’. He’d scribble his thoughts and ideas into notebooks, various sizes of filofax, various digital devices, but nothing really sticks and he’s always changing his mind. It seemed quite hilarious and very odd to me, until a week or so ago. As 2007 prepares for the final curtain and 2008...
Ask MeFi on sane solutions for book clutter - 43... →
Merlin always seems to hit the nail on the head with this sort of thing - real moments of “why didn’t I already know that?”. It usually leads to lots of comments from all the people who *did* already know that, but I’m starting to suspect that us idiots
Lindsay Lights 2007 →
Over here in the UK, we call this ‘house blinging’ - excessive external Christmas lights. This is taken to such an extreme as to be really impressive, though, and all set to music too. Amazing.
It’s good to be home.
Hello Kitty Contacts →
Contact lenses to put Hello Kitty in your eyes
Alfred Hitchcock presents « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny... →
Turn gravity back on!!!! - I Can Has... →
Flopped.
Right. Time to feed the cat, then head for Nottinghamshire.
Getting up too early for Boxing Day. Heading for Nottinghamshire soon.
Slimming World 17th and 24th December 2007 →
Festive greetings to all who have been following my regular weight-loss blether. Hope you’re having a fun and relaxing Christmas Day. Here’s an update on the past couple of meetings. 17th December 2007 Missed last week because when I wasn’t working, I was sleeping or staring into space wishing I was sleeping. I had a little gain the week commencing the 10th, so was doing my best that week to...
Frozen Pea Fund - Give Peas a Chance to Fight... →
You’ll have to read on the site why it’s frozen peas that represent the fight against breast cancer.
One day with Planner - Sacha Chua →
Sacha describes how to use Emacs PlannerMode for handling GTD day-to-day.
A day in a life with Org - Sacha Chua →
Sacha describes how to use Emacs OrgMode for handling GTD day-to-day.
QC RSS Partytime →
...i like ugly pens! x_x' →
I freakin love →
Happy jolly merry, pipples.
Yet Another Filofax - Mini Guildford →
I recently switched back to using my Pocket Lyndhurst Filofax. Notebooks were going ok, but for the question of where my ‘GTD-style’ lists went. I tried putting them on the computer, but I never got around to even putting them there in the first place. I came up with a couple of different ideas for mixing them in with my usual daily notes, or putting them in the back of the same notebook, but...
Blogging instead of Twittering. What a novelty - hey, I can use more t
han 140 characters out there in Blogland! Do I have that much to say?
Personalising PigPog →
The plan we had recently for making PigPog all about Visual Arts wasn’t really working out very well. We’ve not been updating much still, and most of what we have done has been personal stuff, not much more than catblogging. Rather than fight the inevitable, I’d made a few more adjustments to try to bring what PigPog claims to be more in line with what it is. We’ve got rid of all the old set...
Anyone know what you’re supposed to do if you find you have some forged money? Police? Bank? Vending machine?
Yet Another Filofax - Mini Guildford →
I recently switched back to using my Pocket Lyndhurst Filofax. Notebooks were going ok, but for the question of where my ‘GTD-style’ lists went. I tried putting them on the computer, but I never got around to even putting them there in the first place. I came up with a couple of different ideas for mixing them in with my usual daily notes, or putting them in the back of the same notebook, but...
bah. →
Invizibl →
Feature: Practicing Simplified GTD →
Home. Work done. Big supermarket - too scary. Little supermarket instead.
@pete_gilbert I’ve done all of them, too. And pens and calculators and watches and torches and bags…
OK, people, where’s the merry?
But Mister Scrooge, it's Christmas Eve! →
I’m writing this post on my handheld coming to you live from the hand-picked guatemalan coffee shop at the local hand-picked guatemalan overpriced food and pants emporium. It’s only 8.30am and already the place is heaving with people desperately stocking up on supplies for tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ve got to go to work in a bit. I could quite happily sit here all day watching shoppers clear the...