Anytime I feel that I’m being pulled away from people and things (including this blog) for a while I’m always reminded of Chris Fahey’s tweet about time management. It really must have made an impression on me because this isn’t the first time I’ve referenced it on this blog. For those unfamiliar, here’s another look:
For me, the “juggle list” would probably be: Family, client work, biz dev, work: misc. , sleeping, exercise, friends, blogging, photography, reading, personal projects. Pick 6.
Recently, there’s been a ton of stuff going on at work so I’ve been falling way behind on everything else. I’ll post about some of the more exciting work-related developments very soon.
In the meantime I wanted to put up a quick post with some minor updates + quick thoughts:
- Partially because there hasn’t been a substantive post in a while and partially because I hate the way they look, I’ve decided to pull all of my daily links into one of the side columns using one of my favorite WordPress plugins, SideBlog.
I think this makes the site easier to read and frankly, nicer to look at. For those of you kicking it RSS-style, you won’t notice a difference. On that note, let me apologize in advance for those weeks where the links-to-real posts ratio is as out of whack as it has been the past few weeks. On the bright side, I hope that the regular dose of links turns up some valuable things for everyone.
- As a result of the SideBlog integration, you’ll notice I’ve also done a bit of housekeeping on all 3 of the sidebars.
- I’ve recently gotten the Worpress iPhone app up and running and I’m looking forward to giving that a shot for this blog – particularly as a potential tool for capturing some more Design in the Wild
- Matt Galligan (founder of Socialthing!) recently got me into using OmniFocus for personal and professional task management (both on my laptops and my iPhone) and so far I’m impressed. It takes a little initial effort to set things up in a way that mirrors the way you go about assigning and accomplishing tasks but once you get it there, it really makes a difference.
I say this as someone who perhaps obsesses a little too much on efficiency so know that I wouldn’t say this lightly.
- Sean Salmon and I waited in line at the Soho Apple store on the Saturday following the launch of the iPhone 3G for 4.5 hours and got ourselves bright, shiny, 16GB white iPhones.
On the one hand I’m really happy with the phone but on the other I feel like they probably rushed the the release a bit and we’re all paying for that with a less than optimized firmware. Let’s hope 2.1 addresses some of the bugginess.
- This weekend I picked up and Eye-Fi Explore card for my digicam and so far so good. I haven’t really gotten it going in my workflow yet, so stay tuned for a more detailed review. For those hwo don’t know what it is, here’s a quick description:
It uploads photos wirelessly to your computer and to the web, of course. But, Eye-Fi Explore also automatically adds geographic location labels to your photos and allows you to upload from more than 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots across the nation.
For now I think I’ll leave it at that. The next week looks to be really busy but hopefully I can drop in for a quick post or two along the way. Thanks for hanging in there.
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