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 on all of this, I had a great thought today. My life would be complete if only the Foxit people made a pdf reader for my Pocket PC! I would be able to ditch the bloated, over blown Acrobat and live happily ever after with a small, efficient mobile pdf reader. So I wandered over the the Foxit people, and checked out their site (just on the off chance that the Gods were smiling, of course). And guess what?

Foxit Reader for Windows Mobile.

Woohoo! Wait. Damn. Not quite as free as the Windows version. Double damn. No pricing on their website yet. But wait. Free evaluation…

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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 to see.  Take, for example, the chap who recently made me a contact, for no reason I can discerne (I think we own the same camera).  Being curious, I’ve had a flick through his photos and profile.  Now I’ll never live in Romania.  I’ll probably never even get a chance to go there.  But simply by looking through the parts of his life he has chosen to share with the world, I can get a taste of what Romania is like, and how he lives his life.  And he seems happy, which makes me happy too.  So while I’ll probably never go to Romania and certainly will never meet him; I feel connected somehow.  And through that connection and others like it, I can feel connected to my species and my planet. 

And that connectedness is something very special indeed.

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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 to everyone, or just to me and my system, but it never fails. Logic would dictate that it is a symptom of the heavy week, although I can’t help feeling that my system should be there to support me when I need it.

I think maybe I need to work a little more on how I keep a track of my next actions, and perhaps during very stressful weeks, I need to try a little harder to keep all my loops under control. And just maybe, during times of heavy workload, a weekly review isn’t enough, and I need to move to a daily round up.

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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 my posts on either this blog or my old wordpress.com blog, perhaps this is to blame.  Worth a shot, anyway.

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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 to happen to a wordpress.com blog I had.

Oh Technorati, why hath thou forsaken me?

/random gripe

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