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I’ve been pondering over this for some time now. Today I decided to take action and change this dormant blog into something more active.
It was a tell-tale sign that I forgot the password to the blog and more so the drafts I found that were over 2 years old. Publishing one on my Getting Things [...]

I wonder what it must be like to have a geek for a mum. One that is more interested in computers than you are. One you can always ask to fix your computer. A mum that spends more time studying gadgets than clothes and can’t walk past a leather shop to study the latest trend [...]

Years ago I could brag about my interrupt driven approach to work. There was no problem at all for colleagues to ask me to solve a problem while I was in the middle of a totally different task. I could easily set aside the work, find a solution to their problem, often chatting to my [...]

When I first opened this blog, there were only a few themes to select from. Now I noticed there are a lot more, so I choose one in my favorite color (blue) that expresses my fun season (spring).

After writing up in yesterday’s post about the new version of the website I went ahead and started studying the Saila setup.

At the start of 2005 I volunteered to become the webmaster of the society’s website. The site hadn’t been updated in quite some time and it could do with a redesign. Many weeks of hard work followed. Of course it was many more than I had ever foreseen. The launch was planned on the annual [...]

When browsing the web I came across this post by Robert Blum. It sounds so simple and then I realised: I had done this before! One day, some years ago I decided to get through a large backlog of magazines. Something like 2 years’ worth of monthly computer magazines. Starting on the first it [...]

Yesterday I realized that finishing an open loop does not necessarily mean doing the obvious.
When looking for a specific jigsaw puzzle in the attic I found a huge project: a 5000 pieces puzzle of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. I got it from an old relative when he found out that I liked jigsaw puzzles. I’ve tried finishing [...]

The list of finished projects is very stimulating to finish more projects and add them to the list. There is one drawback: working on bigger projects needs Next Actions and finished Next Actions are not recorded.
However, there is a paradox: I never liked the GTD systems that use a text file for marking off Next [...]

I’ve read and reread David Allen’s Getting Things Done book several times in the past few years and every time I find something new in it. I know I should start implementing the system by following his process of mindsweep, setting up folders and lists and contexts and start working. Been there, done that and [...]