I’m frequently asked what software I use for various tasks. This has prompted me to create a page on the site for My Application Toolkit. Rather than creating long lists by operating system or function I’ve used TheBrain to display the relationship between software, operating system and function dynamically, and to provide appropriate links to [...]
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It’s time for my 2012, 50 book challenge. This time I’ve committed again to 50 books, not done since 2008. My results over the past years have been: 2008: 53 books, 2009: 22 books, 2010: 20 books, and 2011: 11 books (cut short from Apr-Mar to Apr-Dec but still a low number).
Defend yourself against the Click…whirr response engendered by your built in need to reciprocate, keep consistency with what you have said you’ll do, be part of the crowd, like people who take advantage of you, follow authority without question and your desire to own something scarce. In Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B Cialdini [...]
My wife and I have just attended a prep grade information session which explained how reading, writing and maths are being taught to our youngest daughter. The teachers suggested we help by pointing out shapes in the home and asking what they are then follow up with, “How do you know?”. For a triangle we [...]
I’ve been using Dropbox to sync my PersonalBrain between multiple computers for a few weeks now. Dropbox copies files via the internet. As long as you follow the rule of ensuring you’re not running two copies of PB simultaneously — in other words, let the sync finish before firing up PersonalBrain— it’s robust. Keep up [...]
Google, you can have the lot. And I give it willingly. First you helped me with a simple and fast search engine. This was followed up by the wonder of Google Earth and then Google Maps. Some other bits and pieces with Feedburner and Webmaster tools, then Google Reader last week took over from Feeddemon. [...]
My laptop has been in a dive. If it wasn’t rented I would probably have kicked it before now. Everything would be fine after a reboot but within a couple of hours things would stop working properly. Most annoying was email, and an intermittent loss of network connectivity. Having to reboot each time you want [...]
I installed Google Desktop Search at the weekend despite my pledge not to install any new software this year. In reading The Google Story by David Vise I became aware of just how reliant upon Google I am. If the desktop version works as well it will be very useful indeed. Googe Desktop exceeds my [...]
Ton Zylstra has outlined his strategy for managing the wealth of information he is subscribed to. I particularly liked the way he puts actions against items. put in delicious [account] [url] (account being my own, my company’s delicious account or that of a community I partake in) comment at [name]‘s about [topic] [url] follow up [...]
Comment and trackback reinstated to improve knowledge management
In reference to my post on some side benefits of opening up your personal knowledge management system, and comment from Terry Frazier, I’ve decided to reinstate both comment and trackback functionality on Quantum Gardener.