On the Macintosh you can ‘share a screen’ and look it it from another computer. I wondered what would happen if you then shared that screen back to the other computer so that they are both sharing with each other. This is is what happened – kind of standing in a lift with mirrors on both sides of you! (Click on the picture to enlarge it)
10 things Science says will make you happy.
This is a Lyrebird we saw on holidays – mimicking a kookaburra
Here is another video:
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In the school holidays we ran our own master chef competition!
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Well yesterday I change my keyboard layout to Colemak. I had to pull off all the keys one by one and put them back in the new spots, and then change the keyboard driver on my Mac. Now my keyboard looks like this. It’s driving me crazy trying to type with it.
GTD p44, 98, 164
An A-Z general reference file for everything.
I can’t believe how nice this looks. I truly do have a new relationship with my filing system.
Dave Allen’s 3 tab manila folders not available in Australia. Nor are the file systems with no hangers. I tried a few different combo’s to get the manilla files to sit above the suspension files. In the end I found that these 5 tab dividers sit in the Officeworks suspension files which are a bit shorter that all the other brands, so the folders poke out the top nicely. I followed GTD method of 1 folder per hanger and labelled with brother labeller. The best manilla folders I found were I forget the brand – either Avery or Marbig – the ones from Corporate Express.
The best folders for GTD are these cheapo Officeworks ones that are 1cm shorter than all the other brands. This works in my favour as the manilla tabs now poke out the top.
I’m up to page 111 – COLLECT EVERYTHING INTO IN.
Items with no action – supplies, reference material, decoration and equipment just ‘stay where they are, that is, unless something is where it doesn’t belong. The inference is that everything has a place.
Well pretty much every tool and supply I have is where it doesn’t belong. So I made a place for everything that didn’t have a place. I have moved all this stuff out of my study into this new storage cupboard I built complete with Sam’s Warehouse plastic bins all labelled with my new Brother labeller.
I’ve created a new category called GTD – Getting things done, click here to see it. I’ve read Dave Allens book the classic called GTD and it really is very good. I’m going to keep a bit of a blog in this new GTD category of how I go about implementing it.
I have read the book and decided:
1. His principles are great.
2. The practical stuff is what I am so bad at so I am going to follow it EXACTLY to the letter, then after I have the system going, I can tweak things.