time management

zomgwtf, organization?

2010-09-03

documentation, my writing, personal, Questions / Wanted, time management, updates, writing

Ok, so I haven’t been writing here at all. Why? Well because I have too many different “systems” out there which each get a piece of my attention. So sometimes one of those systems suffers.

I do actually have 40-50 people a day who read something within this blog. While that isn’t the quarter million a month from the good old days it’s still some people who might care. Or not, I don’t actually know. There’s no real social aspect to blogging like it seems to exist elsewhere. Well that’s something I’ll ponder over sometime later. I’m antisocial anyways, so it’s low priority.

So seeing as there is at least “some value” in this place, I really should be thinking about it more often. So that’s why I’m back and why I’m writing this.

I suppose I may as well do one of my huge essay pieces, since there is just so much background which would need to be understood for a reader to actually “get” what I’m going to try to get across.

Rotating immersion

2010-02-27

dead, intelligence, my writing, personal, projects, Questions / Wanted, time management, todo, writing

It’s my nature to gain and lose interest in things, like the tides coming and going. I’ve tried all sorts of tricks to schedule and change focus, but they just don’t work for me. So I’m going to declare a new way of doing things. A way which works to my advantage. I’ll call it “rotating immersion“.

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How the hell do I organize a 10+ year old TODO list?

2009-08-30

dead, my writing, personal, projects, Questions / Wanted, time management, writing

Update: Five Things is meant to help with this sort of thing.

So at some point you migrate from little scraps of paper to sheets of paper.

Then you migrate to notes in your computer.
Then you migrate to a documentation system.
Then you migrate back to notes in your computer.
Then you migrate to one big note.
Then you categorize your notes.
Then you review and prioritize your notes.

All the while, your notes have been gathering strength, preparing to assault your free time.

You open the flood gates .. and .. nothing happens. The very notion of a list is intimidating, and actually “doing” anything is based on inspiration. Priorities have shifted around so much over the years that looking at the list just gives a lot of “yeah, that ought to get done one of these days” instead of the burning-hot passion there used to be.

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Why doesn’t software multitask?

2009-08-24

Claws Mail, Firefox, glances, my writing, software, time management, Usability, writing

I strongly appreciate a single-application single-tasking environment, because it forces you into a totally different mindset from the flurry of activity and noise one always has on an everyday “multitasking” computing environment these days. But since most of my day is spent completely surrounded by multiple applications all vying for my attention, I’ve come to expect to be able to swap my attention around whenever I want.

But there are situations and applications which explicitly deny multitasking.

Seriously.

The Unity Linux issue tracker

2009-08-04

abandoned, documentation, time management, Unity Linux, websites

~~https://web.archive.org/web/20161106015619/http://issues.unity-linux.org:80/~~

Why have I been so quiet here? I’ve been hard at work reviewing the 150+ issues which have already been placed in the issue tracker.

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System archaeology

2009-06-16

archivism, dead, documentation, Linux, personal, projects, time management

Archivism >

Ok, I’ll admit it. I really like system archaeology.

It’s like some strange combination of a system administrator, grey hat cracker, security expert, information archivist, hacker, propeller-hat role. I don’t know how to explain it.

And I’ve been doing it on my own system.

For years.

Note that “digital folklore” (native web culture, etc) is not related.

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Absorbing thousands of old bookmarks

2009-06-16

archivism, dead, internet, personal, projects, time management

I’ve gone through a couple of primary browsers across a couple of different operating systems and operating system versions.

What’s even more unfortunate is that I’ve had multiple backups where there were different changes to different versions of things. Fortunately I’ve been semi-active on keeping my links lists up-to-date, otherwise I might have bookmarks from 1998 in Neoplanet from back in my 16-bit Windows days.

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