The choice of a personal pathThe choice of a personal pathI am always in the search of a personal path and for that I just hunt as many crossroads I can, knowing that only by experiencing and refining my choices continuously, my chosen path will be as rewarding as I want it to be. Articles
One million iPhone inquiries in US, while they are still negotiating with V
2007-03-28 01:40:00 Well, I just can’t go over this without blogging a little: AT&T anounced a million inquiries about the iPhone . I don’t expect them to have a million buyers the next day iPhone is out, but the number has a certain marketing value, we must agree on that. If they will have at least 100.000 ... More About: Iphone , With , Lion , They
The reality within: beating Sundays
2007-03-25 10:31:00 We talked several days ago about the Real ity With in, the way your memories and habits are dictating your actual behavior. Let’s make it a little more exact, let’s talk about a specific reality: the Sunday s reality. You have inside of you all the memories of your Sundays: since you were a baby, since you ... More About: Days
It?s not all about the money, but still?
2007-03-24 02:13:00 In my wordpress draft folder there is a post with the title: “Blogger I admire - template”. As the title suggest I thought to start a series about some of the bloggers I really admire, or for some of the bloggers that I really consider an inspiration. Well, I’m not going to use that template ... More About: Money , About , Stil , Still
Quicksilver - searching address book contacts
2007-03-21 09:13:00 Time for another Quicksilver quickie (sorry, couldn’t help myself ). I mean, time for another Quicksilver short tutorial. If you haven’t read yet the other tutorials in my blog, I recommend you: Quicksilver: instantly create text files and prepend or append text to them, Quicksilver - blogging with wordpress by email, or ... More About: Contact , Search , Book , Dress , Silver
New Google AdSense Referral Beta
2007-03-21 00:15:00 It seems that Google AdSense is planning to add new features to their referral program. Currently they opened a beta testing session for those who want to take a closer look to the new system. Here’s what the blog entry at adsense blog is telling us: This is good news for those of you who ... More About: Adsense , Beta , Google Adsense
How To Make A Google Toolbar Button For Your Blog
2007-03-20 09:26:00 Google Tool bar is a great browsing extension. I use it since its only benefit was to show you the page rank of the page you visited. And it was a great tool. But things have changed and now Google Toolbar is making important steps toward a more socialized approach of the new web. One of ... More About: Google , How To , Blog , Your
The Reality Within
2007-03-19 09:23:00 All your habits, all your memories, all your knowledge, informations and learned processes are forming a reality. Your reality. It’s your own interpretation of the world, it’s how you see things, and how you react to them. It’s what I call the reality within. Why “within”? Because, most of the time, this reality has nothing ... More About: Reality , With , Real , Ality
My first 100 days of blogging
2007-03-18 17:03:00 Today I have 100 days since I started this blog. It’s my second blog, but the first one in English. It was an enjoyable experience so far, and I think it is just the beginning. Here’s some statistical stuff about my first 100 days as an English blogger: 1. In the first three months I ... More About: Blogging , Blog , Days , First , Blogg
GTD one-liners: re-negotiate your commitments constantly
2007-03-17 09:50:00 And carefully chose what you really want to do, never doing more than you actually can. Because if you will chose the impossible, you will eventually be burned out. This is one of the toughest things that I have to learn through GTD. I am a very ambitious person. Or at least I considered my ... More About: Men , Your , Liners , Commitment , Line
More blog content - the series
2007-03-16 11:43:00 In the last (almost) 100 days, since I started this blog, I realized that I wrote stuff following several patterns. Some of them were assumed, like the fact that this blog is about GTD and productivity, some of them were just emerged for the blogging activity itself. It’s always interesting to see how the content ... More About: Series , Blog , Content , More , Tent
One thing I like about web 2.0
2007-03-15 14:24:00 In a recent post, Anne Zelenka, writes about 10 things she hates about web 2.0. The article, and the buzz she started, are an incredible way to demonstrate the power of web 2.0. I even suspect Anne of having a twisted approach in writing this, stating that she hates web 2.0, but using it ... More About: Web 2 , About , Like , Thing , Web 2.0
Actiontastic and Actionatr will be open source
2007-03-15 13:38:00 And free as in free beer, as the author post in this new release of Action tastic announcement. Actionatr, the online sibling of Actiontastic, will be Ruby-based, from what I understand, and it will try to mix up microformats and Open Id. That will eventually make Actionatr a very open platform itself, allowing different levels ... More About: Open Source , Source , Open-Source
MindManager contest: mind map your resume for a better job
2007-03-15 07:50:00 As I already promised, another contest starts today. This time it will be much more focused (as I saw the readers of this blog are not only familiarized with mind mapping, but also pretty creative) and it will have as a prize another free license for Mind Manager 6 from MindJet. And that, my ... More About: Contest , Your , Resume
GTD one-liners: on your daily or weekly review, do one thing at a time
2007-03-14 11:34:00 Another interesting one-liner picked up from the David Allen book on Getting Things Done. This is the second one after the successful Never have the same thought twice, unless you like that thought. This time it’s about time . Or how not to lose it. Or lose your brains out during your weekly ... More About: Daily , Time , Review , Your , View
How to create a text file on a mac
2007-03-13 11:29:00 Believe it or not, this is one of the most popular questions by which my blog is found by search engines. I use a very nice tool, located at 103bees.com, which helps me know how people are actually find about me on the net. By the way, since we are here, I recommend you ... More About: Mac , How To , File , Text , Create
Lost and Found on Twitter
2007-03-13 00:32:00 Not really a big fan of twitter. Don’t know why, but I’m not. Seeing this post, however, made me change my opinion. I’m on twitter for only several hours but I already saw a real life situation in which a guy who lost his wallet was helped by a guy that found the wallet. Guess ... More About: Lost , Twit , Twitter , Lost and Found
MindManager contest: we have a winner!
2007-03-12 20:56:00 Well, it’s been some time since we started our contest, and this was an enjoyable time. On 10th March the submission for this contest was over, so we have to announce our winner today. And, as you already read, we do have a winner! I wasn’t overwhelmed by the quantity of comments in which you ... More About: Contest , Manager , Mind , Winner , Have
Quicksilver - how to send emails
2007-03-12 11:28:00 Time for another episode of our Quick silver series. Today will talk about a very interesting usage of this Mac gem: sedning email. Directly from Quicksilver, of course. Requirements: 1. Quicksilver, of course. 2. The Apple Mail plugin (downloadable from the plugin area of Quicksilver website) 2. The Address Book plugin (downloadable from the plugin area of Quicksilver website) Let’s ... More About: Email , How To , Silver
Getting Things Done with an iPhone - total black belt productivity
2007-03-10 03:47:01 It’s a fact: the iPhone will be here. Maybe it’s already, as rumors are already spreading about Steve Jobs conspicuously using it. So how this will help us, GTD addicted fellows? I spent a little time making a scenario about the best usage of an iPhone-centric GTD implementation, so here it is. We’ll start with the first phase out of the five described by David Allen in his book, and then we’ll explore some specific situations. 1. Collect One of the most neglected applications on the iPhone, equally during the keynote and after the keynote, was the Notes application. It was clearly depicted in the screenshots and presentation movies but I didn’t saw any specific references to it. It’s already on iPods, so why don’t we stick it in the iPhone too, right? I think it deserves a lot more attention, because, believe it or not, my impression is that could be the cornerstone of the collection process in the GTD methodology. As simple as it may seem... More About: Iphone , Product , Getting Things Done , With
My Most Downloaded Mind Maps
2007-03-10 03:47:01 In the last 30 days I posted in this blog 6 mind maps. Some of them were just drafts for the post itself, some of them were real tools that I considered useful. I was curious about the amount of interest each map will receive, so I implemented them not as plain files on the server, but served by Mike Jolley’s excellent Down load Monitor Wordpress Plugin. So now I know for each mind map the exact number of downloads. Here is the list. You’ll see in the paranthesis the real-time number of downloads, and in plain text the number of downloads as for March 9th 2007: Meeting Mind Map Template (228): 194 downloads Project Management With A Mind Map (165): 133 downloads Blogging With A Mind Map (112): 97 downloads The Procrastinator Mind Map (91): 65 downloads Review My Software For A Free License (63): 52 downloads Ghost Action Blog Post (42): 27 downloads What’s really interesting is that the 2 first places in the most popular mind map top, are also the first two... More About: Maps , Most
GTD one-liners: never have the same thought twice, unless you like that th
2007-03-09 03:46:02 I discovered a lot of one-liners in the GTD book of David Allen, as well as in a good number of blogs that are writing about this methodlogy. Starting to comment on this one-liners, and eventually make a series of posts out of it, seemed a good idea. And starting with my favourite one-liner: never have the same thought twice, unless you like that thought, seemed a wonderful idea. The thoughts are the roots of your reality. Unless you are working in an extremely hierarchically formal system - like the army, or George Orwell’s 1984 utopia, where you don’t have to think, you only have to do stuff thought by somebody else - you are doing only what you think of. Ever ything that comes to a real form, it was first in your mind. We are often underestimate the power of our thoughts. And the main cause for that is procrastination: the art of thinking the reality without doing it. Because of this very energy consuming habit - procrastination - in which we think a lot and do almost... More About: Hat , Thought , Liners , Have
Do You Know Your Twisted Roots?
2007-03-09 03:46:02 I loved bonsai. Those little trees grown in trays, and surrounded by japanese signs, you know them… The strange forms they had, the beautiful images they created in my mind… Until I read how they are actually created: artificially. That’s right, there is a technique of doing this: you take a tree, put it in a twisted context, and it will grow with twisted roots. The result might be beautiful, but it’s not natural. It might touch your esthetic perceptions and give you some thrills, but it’s artificial. It might challenge your intelligence and make you think in unusual ways, but it will be based on false premises… Because the whole technique is about twisting roots. About modifying one’s natural path by drastically changing its surroundings. Of course, this post is not even remotely related to the bonsai creating art, as you may already imagined. It is about how we, humans, can be considered, and treated like, bonsai. Like little plants that ... More About: Your , Roots , Know , Root
When and why I broke up with? gambling
2007-03-05 09:43:02 Time for another post in my series of “when and why I broke up with…”. It’s a series that generally deals with habit interruption, which I consider to be a cornerstone of personal development. There are several posts already in this series, and you can check out: when and why I broke up with… linux, or when and why I broke up with… smoking. Gambling is a very dangerous thing. I won’t call it an addiction, because I really don’t know if it’s an addiction. But it can be a very destructive habit. Well, I wasn’t a big gambler. But still big enough to ask myself from time to time: will I ever quit? Back in my student times, I was quite a party-boy, and an easy to go fellow. I started to work from my first year as a student and soon become financially independent. I worked for the newly opened FM radios in Bucharest, in the 90’s. I did it for about 6-7 years, going from newbie, or trainee, to DJ, and having my own daily sh... More About: With , When , Bling
7 tips to help you procrastinate in a more productive way
2007-03-04 21:42:02 Well, I’ve been in a quite oximoronic mood lately. I had a lot of work to do, and I managed to do it far better and faster than usual. I even worked more than initial planned. The job was programming related, and it was a project that I have for several months. It had a quite hectic path so far, and only in the last few weeks it started to shape as I wanted it to. And, after the last few days, I realized that what I planned was in fact easier than I thought. It happens for everybody, I agree, but this time, was something more obvious than other times. Maybe I have a bigger work capacity? Maybe I was underworked all this time and I just start to realise that? Maybe. But that means that, until now, I constantly had a false perspective about my own work capacities. This whole situation made me think about my procrastionation habits. Do I have them? Of course, like everybody else. Do I cultivate them? Well, that’s another question. I think I stopped cultivating my procrastin... More About: Tips , Product , Help , Tina , More
Wordpress 2.1.1 was qualified as dangerous!
2007-03-03 21:42:02 After a security breach. It looks like sombody just broke into wordpress development cycle and posted malicious code on the 2.1.1. From the wordpress blog: Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in Word Press . The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened. As long as you upgrade to the new 2.1.2 version you should be on the stable side of the moon. More on that on the official wordpress blog. More About: Wordpress , Anger , Danger
Actiontastic 0.9.2 beta is out
2007-02-28 09:39:01 As I already posted yesterday, Action tastic hit with the latest version tagged “beta”, namely 0.9.2. According to the release announcement, this would be the last one before the first oficial 1.0 version. That 1.0 version will have, if the developer knows what he says, a very interesting sync feature with Actionatr, the online sibling of Actiontastic, and we will have to wait no more than several weeks to see that happening. Back to the 0.9.2 release, there is a very interesting feature - although a little complicated, but still interesting - related to the email processing. Packed with the release there is a small script called toICalInbox, which you can place everywhere on your system. Then you enter a rule in your Mail.app, in which you basically route all the messages that have “todo:” in the subject to this script. The routed message will then be forwarded by the script in the iCal @inbox calendar, from where Actiontastic will be able to pick it up on th... More About: Beta
GTD galore
2007-02-28 09:39:01 Couldn’t help myself to write this little post, once my feed-reader showed me a little GTD galore on the blogosphere today. I’ll try to be short, as this is only a shoot-and-run post. The Kaboomerang people are carefully preparing and slowly unveiling parts of their development. Following the same winning strategy of involving users in their product development, they had two very interesting posts in the last two days. First of all, they are refactoring the “inbox processor” by including some new functionality, while at the same time are asking for name hints for this component. My humble proposal is still “stuffer” as per my comment in the post. And second, there are some very interesting Quicksilver goodies that are cooking in the oven. And then, like in a well planned scenario, OmniPlan is making the first - let’s call it official, but it still isn’t - announcement for the first beta version fo the over-hyped software OmniFocus (the... More About: Galore
Blogging with a mind map
2007-02-26 21:38:01 I am into mind mapping, that’s true. I use it for only several months now but the boost in my creativity was huge. I come to the level where I am mapping almost any important activity. The result is fantastic. It helps me stay focused on doing, as well as letting me enough room to actually improve what I’m doing. Let’s say I want to kick-start a project in my company, just a little completion or add-on to one of my sites. The first thing I do is to fire my mind mapping application of choice (and that would be now Mind Manager), quickly draw some topics, save the map, and take a break. I review the map after a certain interval. Some times it can be several minutes, sometimes it can be several days. But I am always sure that I will find in my mind map all the thoughts related to that project. It’s only after carefully crafting my mind map that I go to the next level, of actually organizing and planning it, assigning resources, establishing deadlines, etc. And ... More About: Blogging , Blog , With , Blogg
Ajax - flushing the web 2.0
2007-02-26 21:38:01 Just watching a Discovery documentary on a Sunday afternoon, and stumbled upon an incredible story: the flush toilet history. Believe it or not, the first flush toilet in history, invented by a guy called John Harrington, was called… well, how many of you will guess… come on, come on, don’t by shy… YES: the Ajax . Apparently, at that time - around 1500, 1596, to be more precise - the toilets were called “jackes”, so the inventor wanted to keep the initial semantic: “a jackes”, but rebranded a little his invention, so he called it “Ajax”. Much like, you, know: Vista for Mac OS. Rebranding. And I couldn’t help to try a little blogging exercise, based on the meaning and functionalities of the old and the new AJAX object. So, here we go, first with the similarities: The initial AJAX and the modern AJAX shares the same flowing perspective over things. You know, they help a lot with the flow. Make things smoother. The init... More About: Web 2 , Flush , The Web , Lush
We have a new face!
More articles from this author:2007-02-26 21:38:01 I just thought it was time for a change, so I changed the theme! Quite obvious for anybody who reads me through a browser, and not via a RSS feed. The theme is a heavy customisation of the pragmatic theme , and it’s a quite interesting approach. I like the clean presentation, although the underlying code of the theme is not so clean… I changed though over 50% of the code so far, and I am really looking forward for your comments on that. As you already saw, I said goodby - for now - to interstitials, as they are not behaving any better than the regular ads, and the text was somehow cluttered because of that. Also, I am in the process of redesigning the Archive page, so it might take a while until it will be back again. I kept the 3-columns design, as I still think that the quantity of the content and the general objectives of the blog are better served with this type of structure. Feel free to comment and let me know how do you find my new blog face. Thanks . More About: Face , Have 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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