From the monthly archives:

June 2006

First Impressions

by Earl on June 29, 2006

in Observations

Some time ago I was of the opinion that the professionalism of the management at the company I was then working for was in question. This was reflected not only by their actions but also in their daily dress attire, which was extremely varied and casual. As you can imagine, there were few [...]

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I’d read Getting Things Done by David Allen a couple years ago and thought it was interesting. However, I never directly adopted his process but did take note of quickly sorting and prioritizing incoming email/task and acting in a timely manner. I didn’t know if I had what it takes to be [...]

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Five fun links

by Earl on June 25, 2006

in Five4Fun

Because we all need to have fun:
The New York Nerd: Unusual Photographs
There are some cute, funny, and very unusual photos in this collection.
Time breakdown of modern web design
This is a pie chart of the time spent doing a modern web design project.
A fine display of parking skills.
A collection of some of the worst parking jobs, [...]

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Not so relaxed (but still working)

by Earl on June 23, 2006

in Observations

Lifehacker – Relax at work (and still be productive)
StevePavlina.com – 10 Ways to relaxify your workspace 
I was reading a post on Lifehacker, from stevepavlina.com. about 10 ways to turn your workspace into a more relaxed environment so I decided to use these 10 ideas as a baseline to evaluate my own work environment.
First [...]

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MACOSXHINTS – Re-order MailTags keywords and projects at will
I’d mentioned a while back about the usefulness of Mailtags for Apple Mail. Theres an easy way to rearrange the list when you add a new keyword or project so that you new tags don’t appear at the bottom of the list.
If you want to rearrange the [...]

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Quicksilver: Useful Aids

by Earl on June 22, 2006

in Apple Mac, Software

Hawk Wings – Quicksilver cheatsheet, documentation – Tim Gaden
There is a post on "Hawk Wings" with links to a Quicksilver Quick Reference (Cheatsheet) and a work in progress user manual.
Howard Melman has begun writing a user manual. It’s a work in progress, but it already contains a general introduction to [...]

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Case Study: Ways to Use a Wiki

by Earl on June 22, 2006

in Observations

Green Chameleon – Seven Ways to Use a Wiki – Patrick Lambe Patrick at Green Chameleon mentions an interesting case study of wiki use. This study was posted at Pebble Road by Maish Nichani and highlights the wiki use in the the British Council Singapore's Professional Development Centre.
Maish describes seven practical ways that [...]

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Time to Quit – Seth Godin's Blog
Sometime you just can't see the forest for the trees. I was reading the above post, "Time to Quit", on Seth's blog today and I was hit with the absolute truth that the advice Seth was giving to his friend, Doug Jacobs, directly applied to me. [...]

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Pre-Planning

by Earl on June 21, 2006

in Observations

We all have our own personal methods and effective processes to handle our daily projects and tasks.  Many work from pared down "To Do" lists with defined schedules and deadlines.  Others may prefer to keep the required task in an outline format that includes all the other related information. Often our focus is to quickly [...]

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PayPal fixes phishing trap

by Earl on June 19, 2006

in Observations

PayPal has fixed the flaw in its website which allowed a sophisticated scam to capture sensitive data from members.
Read complete story here.

Technorati Tags: Fraud, Software

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As the Internet becomes more of a daily part of our lives the ability to effectively search and locate information on the Internet is an important skill and can be essential for success. Without the skills and strategies to search and locate information on the Internet, the process can become daunting. A single [...]

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