Archives for January 2008

Organize IT Recap 1st Feb 2008 [Organize IT]

Organize IT recap for 1st February 2008

The increasing number of people who subscribe to Organize IT every week is always encouraging to see. It took a year to get my first 1000 subscribers, yet I’ve managed to break the 2000 subscribers mark in a third of the time… well, almost. To hit my target I [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Conditional formating in Office 2007 [Hack Your Day]

A great new feature in Office 2007 is conditional formating. While its use is mainly visual, since if you are doing statistical analysis you would use variance, standard deviation and the lot to numerate the properties of data sets, you can use the conditional formating options to get a quick glance, or for other features, [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Getting Things Done: il mio sistema (terza parte) [strategievincenti.net]

Nella prima parte di questo articolo ho descritto come è nato e quali motivazioni mi hanno spinto ad implementare il mio sistema GTD (Getting Things Done) e quale è il software che utilizzo.
Nella seconda parte ho descritto la categoria Actions (Azioni) e le liste in essa contenute, in questa terza parte descriverò le categorie mancanti, [...]

31 January 2008 | GTD, GTD (Getting Things Done), Getting Things Done, Lifehacks, Software, efficacia, efficienza, palmare, produttività, successo | No Comments

Taking a quick nap - and managing to wake up [Hack Your Day]

I’ve always read about how politicians and people who need to get by on little sleep take micro-naps. Well, if I need to sleep, I need to sleep, so a micro sleep is perhaps an option for me for one, maybe two nights.
If you need to use the extra wake time, but need a hour [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Trax Gurkha & Tempo 290 GTD

Trax Gurkha & Tempo 290 GTDForce Motors, Pune7 min - Feb 1, 2008
Trax Gurkha (TD2650FTI BSIII Engine) & Tempo 290 GTD (OM616 LWB Engine) performing stunts at the Force Motors test track.
Original post here: Force Motors, Pune

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Spam from Hallmark [Hack Your Day]

A type of troublesome email I’ve seen recently is fake Hallmark e-card emails. If you get one, be sure to hover over the link to the card itself. In the email I received, the link points to “http://62.183.68.110/card.exe”, hardly a legit Hallmark card.
If you get anything that isn’t directly from someone you know, or doesn’t [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

The grand reopening [Hack Your Day]

February 1st has come (at least in my part of the World), so as promised, welcome to the reopened Hack Your Day blog, serving all kinds of productivity breadcrumbs every day. There will be 3 posts a day at least, probably more at times, and fun will indeed be had!
I’m still doing a bit of [...]

31 January 2008 | Hack Your Day, Productivity | No Comments

Estudio científico acerca de GTD [El Canasto]

David Allen ha desarrollado su método basada en su experiencia tiene unos principios como “Es mejor trabajar con la cabeza vacía” como fundamentos de Organízate con Eficacia. Un grupo de científicos de Bruselas ha verificado los principios de GTD con la teoría en la ciencia cognitiva, resultando en un estudio interesante para todos interesados en [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments

7 Current Writers I’m In Love With [Zen Habits]

“Time moves in one direction, memory in another.” - William Gibson

I love to read. And I especially love to read good writers, people who are in love with the written word, who can tell great stories, create characters I want to be best friends with, invent new worlds that I can inhabit for a few [...]

31 January 2008 | Books | No Comments

January Review [HD BizBlog- The Blog: Productivity in Context]

Welcome to February!
It is time to review the achievements for the first month of the new year. I have to say that I was planning on a sprint to the finish, but I caught a nasty bug that laid me out flat for three days this week. Blegh. I did not get a lot done.

First, [...]

31 January 2008 | Uncategorized | No Comments