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Things That Work, Things That Don’t
As usual I like to experiment on various hacks to improve myself and enrich my life. Actually recently I have been actively trying to distract my mind from other issues. Along the way I like to record what worked and what didn’t. Blogging on a touchscreen cellphone works as a compromise of convenience. Writing on…
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Links: Blue Hackers and Wars of Chores
I’m too lazy and too busy for a full blog post today. Last week I stumbled across these links. Are you a depressed codemonkey? Then maybe a quick read of BlueHackers.org is just what the doctor recommends. Have a bad case of lazy roommates? Declare a Chore War on them! OK, thats all I got…
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That Subscription Did Pay Off…
In January I decided to that I need to work on my time management and organization skills. Especially with the amount of different projects and events happening in and around my life, I need to find scraps of time here and there. Not to mention I need to remember tasks, people, the locations of miscellanous…
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A Review of January 2009
Every so often I like to look back and review my achievements. In the past I did it so rarely, that I just looked my current work and the few things I remembered made it look like I achieved little throughout the year. So I’ll try to do a quick review for January here. In…
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Dear Lazyweb: How Do You Deal with Blockers?
After reading a number of post on the Ubuntu and KDE planets, addressed to Dear Lazyweb. I’m not going to be lazy and not do research on this topic. Rather I am interested in hearing how people deal with certain problems. So I’m going to turn the blog over to you guys and gal, and…
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Time Management Resolutions for 2009
The fifth day into the year, and I can already foresee a number of huge changes in my life. As I mentioned before the transition from thinking like a university student to a fully self-sufficient adult is a pretty huge one. One of the things that I foresee is a glorious lack of time. Essentially,…
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Perfection in Your Process
I have a serious character flaw. I’m a perfectionist. Nothing kills creativity like trying to get everything right the first time around. One of the most important skills I learned in professional writing: is create first, edit to perfection later. Give yourself leeway and freedom to make mistakes and to experiment. There is a second…
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Calendars and TODOs Are Only Useful If You Use Them
You know those commercials for productivity suites/PDAs/etc. where the protagonist wants to go to an event… and then finds out it happened last week. Well that happened to me today. Just going through my “TODO” list, and wanting to check out when that expected event was gonna happen. And it already did. The moral of…
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Review of 2007, the Promise(s) of 2008
The year 2007 has been quite a dynamic year for me. Instead of writing a long article about each thing… cause that might take me an year to write and edit, I will just present a list of lists of things that happened. Academics Completed my undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga.…