The Best Contact Page Ever

You really have to look at this contact page from Leo Laporte. Although initially it might look rude, it is a pretty fair way of managing incoming missives. I would also like to say that it is humorous – hard to say if that is intentional or unintentional, or even whether I am filtering on [...]

Technologists/Nerds and Interaction with the World

I saw this from Merlin Mann’s site 43Folders. It is an extract from information from another site but it is very inciteful about how to understand technologically gifted persons and how they interact with others. I am sure that it could be described in more airy fairy words, but this gets to the point in [...]

Getting Things Done Summary

Sometimes, you find interesting snippets out there and this is one of them. This is related to an earlier post from Merlin Mann, this time however from the interestingly named Dave Allen – nothing in common with the comedian of course.

Blue sky

Back when I had time, I used to go out walking in the countryside around the village where I live. I used to take a couple or two of photos and sometimes they looked nice. This apparently is one which is nice enough for some to have commented on it through Flickr, and I have [...]

Headless man found in park

Well, it does look like one but in the end it was only a local youth with a major drink problem and the misfortune to fall asleep in a particularly interesting way. And when I mean drink problem, I do not mean no mouth. I mean, it was just before noon, he had a box [...]

Nice rig

I like flight simulators. My interest (and time) ebs and flows, but I have always liked this since that ZX81 implementation in less than 16K back in 1982. I remember its very low res graphics (actually judicious use of chequer board characters as it not graphical machine). Anyway, look at this rig I found at [...]

Amsterdam

I always love being in Amsterdam, you get to see sights which you would not see anywhere else. This guy is famous for his Indian rope trick in a thong on Leidseplein. Although I have seen it many times, this is the first time I captured it on a photo. Apologies for the quality as [...]

Inbox Zero – The Text

For those who want to learn a lot about information handling – check out Merlin’s site for Inbox Zero.

Email Alcoholism

I talked with someone at work today about being more vicious about email – comments such as:

email is not work
communication is not email
escalation is not email

Now I am still an email alcoholic – I have problems admitting I have a problem, I try to deal with it but keep slipping back, try alternative messaging narcotics [...]

Copyright or not – you can still make money

Just seen the news that Hound Dog is at 14 in the singles chart in the UK this week, almost certainly because of download sales… part of the long tail. What is interesting about this is that this was recorded in 1956 and therefore it is no longer in copyright in the UK.
As far as [...]