Posts from February 27, 2006

I will stop wasting time evaluating every RSS reader in the universe and simply revert to NewsGator Online.

This will help me to read and enjoy content when I actually have the time and inclination. This will also stop me being distracted by that insidious 'There is 1 new article' irritant which just leads to skim reading lots of irrelevant material in a mindless urge to get 'up to date'.

I will endeavour to constrain my list of feeds to those that I actually read and are of interest. The recent introduction of Technorati favo(u)rites proved to me that this number was indeed less than 50.

And finally, Cyril. And finally, Esther. I will unsubscribe immediately from Scobleizer's blog. I am starting to feel like a mindless sheep. I know millions read it and discuss it. I subscribe to it and my eyes see the words but I don't actually read it. He won't mind. He has a big enough audience. Baa.

Thats it. Enough procrastination. Finished.

I will use Microsoft Outlook to manage my email, contacts, tasks and calendar at work.

I will store work related and personal data in the same repository.

I will not store any data on a Web based service.

I will use Beyond Contacts (from DataViz) to synchronise my contacts, tasks and calendar to my aging but perfectly adequate monochrome Palm Vx.

I will either use old fashioned paper and cheap biros from leading hotel chains (I would only lose an expensive moleskin and fountain pen) or the Palm to capture stuff when I am at home, in transit, in a hostelry or away from my work computer.

I may also send emails to myself from my home computer to work.

I will manually manage my address book on my Nokia phone. This is more work for me but absolutely necessary because I dislike the Nokia PC Suite program so intensely.

I will capture my personal finances in Microsoft Money.

I will continue to use TiddlyWiki (in preference to OneNote and EverNote) to capture personal notes, jottings and information mainly because I like the sound of 'reusable non-linear personal web notebook' and it fits on a memory stick.

I will continue to keep Joomla in my thoughts.

I will no longer mock my wife for keeping lots of lists; 'The only thing you need now is a list telling you where all your lists are'.

I am following, with interest, the progress of Stowe Boyds /Message blog as it gradually, inexorably climbs up the Technorati rankings.

Excellent subject for a blog. Plenty of interesting, free material on a daily basis without any need for thought.

So I have decided to follow suit albeit a little late in the day.

Day 194. Technorati Rank: 235,668 (23 links from 12 sites)

Tune in this time tomorrow to see the impact of my new black beret.

PS. How did I know it was day 194 ?

SQL> select trunc(sysdate) - to_date('17-aug-2005', 'dd-mon-yyyy') as interval from dual;

INTERVAL
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194