GMST

A proposal: rename Getting Things Done (GTD) to Getting My Shit Together (GMST).
My progress in GTD/GMST:
1/ I created lists using Remember the Milk (RTM) using priorities but given a hectic schedule and three places which I work from, I am only managing a “super” list of tasks and can’t get down to the granularity of [...]

Top 5 Oral Presentation Tips

Inspired by this post http://tinyurl.com/76hy9o from @jonburg, here are a few tips for making more interesting presentations in 2009.
1. Avoid filler words. Commonly abused (read repeated over and over and over again) words: really, like, um, you know. How to avoid them? Know your shit! If you know your material backwards, forwards and sideways, you’ll [...]

Another Monday…

Whew, was looking at some huge outer joins today. I really needed some more coffee! So, another week is starting. Rainy morning didn’t help. Further market slippage in Hong Kong and Toyko didn’t help either. Ho hum. Guess we all need to strap in and prepare for a very bumpy landing.
Wish I had more to [...]

Middle of second week – treading water

So, middle of second week @ new job has come and gone. The laptop screen is now ghosting old windows under current ones and giving me really annoying vertical lines all across the screen. Yikes. And the remote access for my MBP is not working. According to Apani, it is my company’s VPN that is [...]

iPhoto Hell

I spent the entire day cleaning up the mess that iPhoto made with my photos. Oops wife and kid are home gotta run…
Finally got this project finished. It took about 2 days:
1/ copy all original photos out of iPhoto and eliminate duplicates (about 1500)
2/ backup and delete iPhoto database
3/ in clean database, turn off “copy [...]

Obsessional GTD

I wonder if I am just nuts of if others have had this mania: I read the GTD book as I have previously mentioned and have been working to implement it in my personal life before a major job change. My thinking is that if I get this stuff right NOW, I will be more [...]

Getting Things Done – in French

David Allen’s book was finally translated into French and published over here in Paris. The (awkard) French title is “S’Organiser pour Réussir” (LEDUC.S Editions, 2008) and was translated by Michel Édery. I have the sneaking suspicion that Mr. Édery is a Québecois because certain expressions he uses are clearly québecois (“boîte d’entrée” instead of “boîte [...]

Web 2.0 Update…

I am still struggling with some of this web2.0-ish stuff regarding calendars especially. Seems that iCal deleted a couple of appointments (to the annoyance of the appointees) during this whole exercise
I sure wish I could get consistent sync’ing b/w iCal and Google Calendar – for me it is only in the iCal -> [...]

Off on vacation…assorted musings

I am off for two weeks with the wife and kid at La Tranche sur Mer in the Vendée. Some projects I plan for early September (so please come back soon
- More soft topics (what I am reading non-professionally)
- More technical stuff as well
- More playing with widgets
Trying to figure out what tool [...]

Tools and Gadgets (and GTD)

I know, Fino get with the program, but I just heard this GTD (getting things done) term on Lifehacker this week. Sounds like a career of conferences from a certain David Allen and reminds me a little of the 7 Habits craze from Steven Covey back in the nineties. Apparently, this article in Wired magazine [...]