Year: 2006
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Getting things done
As no-one no doubt remembers a while ago I tried to organise myself better using David Allens Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology. I was partially successful, I’ve always wrote to-do lists, though not to the extent Allen recommends, I also try to stick by the two minute: “when a new item comes up, if it can be done in two…
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Top ten most ran programs
A meme doing the rounds, here is the list of ten applications I’ve used the most. I appear to have a much smaller HISTSIZE than some. Guess who’s been having internet problems and is struggling with patchy access to a neighbours wireless. A lot of the sudo commands are me bouncing the network connection. Like Wouter I…
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Joining the bugsquad
I’ve been using (unstable) Ubuntu as my full-time operating system for the last 18 months and one of my new years resolutions was to try and help out with open source software a bit more. So I’ve been volunteering some time to help out with testing and bug triaging amongst other things. Anyway Tuesday night sfflaw made me member of the Ubuntu quality…
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Have I Got News For You
I was in the audience of last nights episode of Have I Got News for You with Nick and Jode. Nick had managed to get the free tickets as soon as they were announced, about a month ago. Apparently it takes only a few hours for tickets for a whole series to go, so we were quite fortunate in…
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Lifestyle changes
I’ve noticed my lifestyle has changed quite a bit since starting my placement, in most ways good, in some bad. I guess starting work is probably the biggest lifestyle disruption you can have, with the exceptions of marriage and kids. I now get up at a reasonable time, I get up at times that I’d…
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Double click vs single click
Update: It seems people are finding this post looking for how to change their double click settings. For GNOME: Open nautilus (click Places -> Home folder) Edit the nautilus preferences (click Edit->Preferences On the behaviour tab, click “single click” Most operating systems (Microsoft Windows, GNOME) default to double clicking on some things and single clicking…
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I.E. DOM Explorer
While developing web pages at work, I’ve been struggling with using Javascript and the DOM to update elements via CSS. At home I’d just run various Firefox extensions and be able to track the problem down but at work I’m stuck with I.E. which has basically no developer friendly features. Scouring around the web for…
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European Lottery Gambling
The Euro millions lottery has rolled over ten times, and as a result the prize fund last week was 85 million, so presumably it will go up by at least another 8.5 million, taking the total to be close to 100 million. Not a small amount 🙂 This will be the first time I’ve ever played the…
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Tracks: Gettings Things Done
For the last fortnight or so I’ve been looking for a way to implement David Allens Getting Things Done time management methodologies. I’ve tried using it on my Pocket PC but it’s native todo system didn’t leave me satisfied with it, so I drifted away from the system. I was looking for something electronic which I could…
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Belated new years resolutions
While I’m doing lists. This year I intend to: be healthier – early starts at work and getting the car haven’t been the best things for me. Go to bed at normal times Do some excercise – I’ve already been Thai Boxing, once. It’s a start. Get things done Make a significant contribution to open…
Dean Sas 