April 15th, 2009
I adore Moleskines. I love them for writing, but I struggle to be satisfied with them for sketching. So the once quiet hunt for the ideal sketchbook recently took a turn for the better.
What’s wrong with Molesknes for sketching? The very uniform and predictable paper – which is either a little too heavy or a [...]
February 6th, 2009
Our 2008 visit to Spain captured our hearts and souls, in particular, for me, the little village of Guadalest. A tourist trap it might be, but there is a sense of longevity, of firm foundations and the taming of a sometimes malevolent landscape.
Guadalest comprises a small, roadside cluster of inns, hotels, restaurants, and tourist shops [...]
October 2nd, 2008
Just a brief dabble with the evil that is watercolour, and one immediately understands that taming it’s wild, watery ways will take a lifetime. However, I recently came to realise that without actually trying, I don’t stand a chance in a dozen lifetimes.
The latest project is a tutorial piece from David Bellamy’s Developing Your Watercolours. [...]
March 10th, 2007
One of the big problems in working an effective GTD system is making everything play nice together – connecting all those micro systems which form part of the ideal GTD solution.
As well as recording what I need to do, I have lately taken to recording what I’ve done. I keep a basic journal (in a [...]
February 26th, 2007
Yes, it does… at least if you’re not a completely new visitor.
As per usual, life doesn’t provide me with the luxuries of time to make this all sing beautifully in one session, so some evolution will occur over the coming days/weeks.
One of the most important additions is to enable you, discerning reader, to filter out [...]
February 18th, 2007
After a weekend of playtime and fun for a change, another MT splurges out into the world. Sorry, but I messed up the mic settings a little, doh!
The joys of returning to a more sensible work/life balance, Freelance developers who have no clue, Conference calls (I loathe them), Soap shops, and the best solution [...]
February 4th, 2007
Yes, it’s that completely unpredictable moment when another Minor Technicality squeezes its squidgy way out into the warming world.
This show is all about stuff going on:
- Podcasting a mofo: 212Blues, Short&Fuzzy, and more!
- Not so much fun using the London public transport system – In, out, in, out, shake it all about.
- Nasal hair and [...]
May 21st, 2006
There are a couple of usability issues here in that it can be tricky and fiddly adding tags generally – get the item, trigger the Info popup, enter the tags, try and remember what tags you used last time, etc. – and even more fiddly to remove temporary GTD-style tags (i.e. @action, @deferred, etc.) once the action has been done.Enter Spot MetaSpotMeta by Ben Summers, makes the whole tagging process infinitely easier to manage – and as we all know, the removal of organisational obstacles is the key to maintaining an organisational system for those of us who combine heavy workloads with ADD!SpotMeta does not introduce tags into the Finder’s Spotlight Comment field, it hides them away…… Add to that special tag elements such as free text and date and you can create a highly complex tagging system enabling a whole manner of customised finder searching and smart folder rules.I have yet to fully exploit the possibilities, but simply being able to tag a file or folder with the standard GTD actions (@action, @deferred, @waitingfor), enables me to quickly see what I need to be dealing with at a glance and most importantly remove focus away form what I do not need to be dealing with at any one time – can you say ‘distractions’?Like any such system there is the need for self-motivation to keep the system up to date as a lapse in tagging means incomplete and inaccurate SmartFolder results, and there’s a good chance you’ll miss something that needs to be done, but it certainly helps overcome a few obstacles.
May 17th, 2006
This morning saw an early leap into the city (London) for a video conference pitch to a prospective client for Audacious Communications.News just in: we got the job!I’ll leave the finer details for an official announcement on the Audacious website, but this is the first significant commission for the unique collaboration which which is Audacious Communications. The project is certainly going to be a challenge over the coming weeks but finally an opportunity to put all our collective experience and ideas into play.It hasn’t been an easy ride in recent months getting work in for Audacious.
