“And I am still alive! So I got my tasks done for the day and I am actually thinking about the next actions, not the projects or jobs I have to do. It is so simple, yet… So next is to get my Palm to sync with outlook, im not sure how it is going to like the user peroperties I have added. I will cross that bridge later! So all is well on Day 2 of GTD. Hey I may even make regular posts to my site now, I will also put up the information on the custom Task Item I have made.”
Continue Reading »“So, I have spent most of the day implimenting the Getting Things Done methodology. It is a fair bit of work, so far I have managed to get my inbox to zero and my task list to 33. I was very supprised. I have to go through the seperate task list next to see what is left and then for the Brain Dump! I have made a custom for for the Task Items. The outlook form just didn’t have the flexability for Projects and multi-Adgenda types in a nice way. So Now I have custom folders and the Script reads the folders for the Project/Agenda information. This gives the advantage of being able to trak project reference stuff with the project. I have made a sub folder for the projects with the same name as the project, this was done with future automation in mind if needed. I am quite happy with the ability of outlook so far, and I have only broken it once :) After this is done it is the review stage! (That and a lot of tasks pending on Monday!)”
Continue Reading »“I have picked up a copy of Getting Things Done by David Allen. It is not to bad, it seems to be a more pratical approach to dealing with the volume of thing you have to do on a day to day basis. It handles things a lot differently than Covey and the 7 habits. <map id=““boxmap-p6"” name=““boxmap-p6""><area shape=““rect”” coords=““1, 140, 83, 150"” href=““http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm/privacy-policy.html?o=1"" alt=““rect1"” /><img src=““http://rcm-images.amazon.com/images/G/01/rcm/120x150.gif"" width=““120"” height=““150"” border=““0"” usemap=”"#boxmap-p6"” alt=““Shop at Amazon.com”” />”
Continue Reading »“We are off to the farm today. The farm is Godstone Farm, it has the general farmyard variety of animals. When I get back I will post some picture of the trip. Done! The photos are uploaded to this album. We had a good time and Anja loved the animals. The word ‘baa’ was used quite a few times! After running around madly all morning she is having a well deserved afternoon nap. I also intend to update the look and feel of the site with some photos I have taken. Ill get around to it this evening. Done, well for the moment. I wasted some time playing Natural Selection. Well I wouldn’t call it wasting ;) lets just say relaxation. Poor little Anja is not feeling well, a nice hot bath and she was put to bed. It was very cute, we tucked her in and she said byee when we left the room.”
Continue Reading »“We are off to the farm today. The farm is Godstone Farm, it has the general farmyard variety of animals. When I get back I will post some picture of the trip. Done! The photos are uploaded to this album. We had a good time and Anja loved the animals. The word ‘baa’ was used quite a few times! After running around madly all morning she is having a well deserved afternoon nap. I also intend to update the look and feel of the site with some photos I have taken. Ill get around to it this evening. Done, well for the moment. I wasted some time playing Natural Selection. Well I wouldn’t call it wasting ;) lets just say relaxation. Poor little Anja is not feeling well, a nice hot bath and she was put to bed. It was very cute, we tucked her in and she said byee when we left the room.”
Continue Reading »Its a nice Saturday night, my ADSL router just died so after a power reset me network is back in action. I have just been for a walk to the shops to get ice cream and chocolate, what else do you need ;) I cannot thing of much to write, a bottle of wine is probably helping. Ill add something meaningful later.
“Im sooooo looking forward to the weekend. We are catching up with some friends so it should be nice and relaxing. Another busy day in worksville, spent a bit of time re-aranging my tasks. I found a intersting project dotproject, i am customising it for me so it is a more of a personal goal tracker. I will be writing two modules, a Sync on to sync with outlook for tasks and contacts and another for goal setting. Anyway Goals should be the first step in any project. Also found a really cool email interface, at http://www.oddpost.com Finally at home, time to relax and find an nice all in one server for windows….”
Continue Reading »“I have no idea, so I figured the best way was to install one and work out :) I’m very practical around this type of stuff. So doing a search on google, I found the following. define:Blog – (weB LOG)
A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is ““blogging”” and someone who keeps a blog is a ““blogger.”” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in cronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominantly. www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html
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“Dear all Time has flown again and I find myself once again wishing that I was more organised and more disciplined to write more often. The last letter I wrote was just before Christmas, so of course that was a long time ago and we have done a lot since then. The most exciting thing is that we did manage to buy the London flat that I talked about in the last email. We moved in in mid February and we are enjoying it a very much. It is always a nice feeling to own the place you live in, it gives you more scope to do what you want and put nails in the walls etc. The flat is in a renovated warehouse that used to product Bryant and May matches. Our flat is on the top floor, so much of it is built into the roof. It is very open plan, there are very few walls. Because of this the flat is built over 3 levels, the loungeroom and the kitchen are on the first level (as well as a small balcony), the bathroom and a galleried study are on the second level and the bedroom is on the top level. The kitchen and the bathroom are in need of a little work, so we will need to spend a bit of time on them, but otherwise apart from small things it is in pretty good shape. On the travel front we also have a few short trips to report. Over Christmas we went to the French Alps with two of our London friends, Dan and Tanya, and two of our Sydney friends, Nick and Carolyn. Apart from a disastrous trip there and back caused by delays at every turn, the Alps were wonderful. It was our first truly white Christmas. We stayed in a brand new Chalet with our friends and 6 other Brits. It was a ski holiday, but Jon and I were only thinking of the fact that we wanted to buy a lounge to sit on in our new flat, so we were uninspired to ski, as it is fairly expensive. Instead we relaxed a lot, played scrabble, walked around the mountain in –15C temperatures, watched bad American TV dubbed into French and German and generally just enjoyed the fresh mountain air. It was a lovely break, but I think that I would rather be in Aus cooking a Barbie than freezing in the French Alps! We then had a bit of a travelling drought because we didn’t want to leave our new house (and couldn’t afford to!) But over Easter we went on a bus trip over the English Channel by ferry to Brussels, Bruge, Antwerp and Amsterdam. Gillian, a school friend of mine who has been in London for a while came too, which was really good, as it was Gill’s first trip out of the UK since she got here late last year. The first day of the trip was mainly taken up by travelling, so we didn’t get to see that much, although the Dover-Calais ferry trip was a new adventure for us. The second day we walked around Antwerp, which is a quaint little Port town which is pretty in the centre, but the surrounds are very industrial. That afternoon we were taken into Brussels, the head city of the European Union. It is a really nice city with a lot of green spaces and plenty of new modern buildings to house the politicians of the European Union. The centre of the city is lovely. After wondering around for a while we felt that we had earned some waffles with chocolate sauce and ice cream, which were very nice! Later we had a Belgian beer in the centre square. Belgian beer is supposed to be the best in the world, and although nothing can beat a Toohey’s New, they don’t do a bad job. The following day we went up to Amsterdam. Jon and I had already been there so had seen most of the sites, so I indulged in a little shoe shopping (they have great shoes at about 1/3 of the London price). We also met up with Sarah (another friend from back home who is also in London) and her boyfriend Tony. During the afternoon we rejoined the coach and went on a tour to a little fishing town North of Amsterdam called Volendam. It is a very pretty town on the coast with its share of Dutch windmills, but was a little touristy for our liking. The following day was Easter Monday, time to head back to London. However on the way home we went via Brugge, which is a lovely little Belgian town. It has maintained most of its medieval buildings, has lots of cobbled roads and canals in the town. It was also extra lovely because it was early spring and all the flowers are starting to come out. One place we went to had a grass field full of daffodils. It is a really lovely town, and we were disappointed that we could only spend a few hours there. We will try to go back there sometime. Last weekend (the weekend after Easter) we were invited to the wedding of Matt (and American guy that Jon works with) and Marion (one of the only English people we know!). They had the wedding in a beautiful ancient church in Cornwall which was first built in the 11th Century! The wedding was lovely and we stayed in Cornwall for the weekend. So now the travel bug has hit we are very keen to do some more travel. Jon is going to Dublin for work next week, so we decided to go for the weekend, so that is the next trip. We also booked our ‘Summer holiday’ for a week to the Greek Island of Corfu at the end of May. So that’s the last 4 months in a nutshell. Hope that everyone is well. We miss you all. Love Jane and Jon”
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