Quadrant IV

Productivity, or lack thereof

Archive for February, 2007

Foxit. Could this be the answer to my prayers?

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

I recently fell in love with Foxit’s free pdf reader. It sits on my desktop, takes up very little room and starts almost immediately. Added to the package is the brilliantly handy pdf-download Firefox extension, and I am a happy little vegemite. (For my non-Australian friends, that is very happy indeed.)
Now based [...]

Looking at the World through different eyes.

Monday, February 19th, 2007

My aborted attempt at Project 365 notwithstanding (I got to 15 days; I’m proud), I really do like Flickr.  And it isn’t really for the ability to post my photographs and have total strangers talk about them.  Really, it isn’t.
I like Flickr because it gives me a glimpse of lives I’d never otherwise get a chance [...]

GTD slippage - the symptom of a stressful week.

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

I find it strange that the moment that I need my GTD system the most - when my week is so busy that I lose sight of myself - is the exact time that my system falls off the rails and I lose it completely. I’m not sure whether this is something that happens [...]

It is raining…

Monday, February 12th, 2007

I live in a drought declared area. Water is a precious resource at the moment, and it is really hard to turn on the news and not hear at least one story about the lack of water, political options to save/catch/create water and the doomsday stories about what will happen if we continue to [...]

The Trouble with Tagging

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

Yep, Technorati Part II:
I’ve investigated a little further regarding my problems with Technorati pings, and perhaps it is my lack of tags.  I have found contradictory information on the subject of tagging; some sites suggest that your categories are fine, and others say that tagging is essential for getting picked up.  Since I haven’t been tagging [...]

Why do I have such trouble with Technorati?

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

For a while now, Technorati and I haven’t been seeing eye to eye. I’ll post something, ping Technorati from both the inbuilt Wordpress ping system as well as a manual ping via Technorati’s page, and Technorati will completely ignore me. Sometimes the post shows up hours later, and sometimes it takes days. This also used [...]

Ella in motion

Thursday, February 1st, 2007

After a dramatic night last night, I managed to get both my blogs upgraded to 2.1 Ella. The results so far? Pretty seemless actually. The upgrade went without a hitch (if you don’t include my woefully slow upload speeds making it seem like it went all night) and I really am liking the ability to [...]

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