Month: June 2005

How much of a hint do I have to drop? I will do ANYTHING for a Powerbook.
I know some of you have been meaning to get me one; maybe this is a good time!

TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook

From MacRumoursLive:

Catch up – two major challenges – making OS X think on intel procs. Every release of OS has been compiled for intel x86 for the last 5 years – cross platform by design.

Wow. Wish I could have snuck out those binaries.

TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook

Apple goes to Intel. But which chip? I can’t see getting a dual-boot Powerbook.
More info! Now!

TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook

Being a gardening geek in charge of watering in my spare time, I appreciated this post on automated drip systems.
I do it manually right now, because for me, watering is a Zen-like therapy. However, my mother-in-law’s garden is extensively dripped due to the scale and density of the plantings, and the fact that they want to spend more time gardening than watering.
Go forth and be lustful of this system!

TECHNORATI: Gardening, Gardens, Drip Irrigation, gadgets

Jeffrey Philllips has a GREAT post on how to make your meetings more effective. [here]
I had already started applying these instinctively, but to see it codified gives me hope that we can pound this into a few people’s skulls. It is a serious contributing factor to people failing at GTD.
When you start to actually analyze the meetings you attend, ask yourself some basic questions:

• Was the organizer prepared?
• Was it clear who the organizer was?
• Did this meeting actually require your attandance?
• Were you expected to take a next action?
• Is another meeting necessary to report on your next action, or can it be done informally?
• Do you consider the meeting a success?

If you pass along your comments to the meeting organizer, or simply talk to that person informally, you may be able to evolve meetings in your organization into useful activities.

TECHNORATI: GTD, Meetings, Lifehacks, Organization

37Signals’ Backpack is the current darling of the GTD crowd. The praise and joy is flooding through the universe as the influencers and blogerati espouse this new saviour. One example here.
Maybe I still don’t get it. Maybe I never will.
It’s a ToDo list. Electronic ToDo lists don’t do it for me. I think I live a very digital life. But electronic organizing tools have never helped me get organized. I have to go through the act of writing the task or action down in a physical format for it to be real.
When I look at something like BackPack, I realize that my HipsterPDA is far better at helping me be organized.
Turning on my laptop or PDA to see my ToDo list? No. That is not getting things done. I see that as letting the tool get in the way of the next action.
This is how I get organized. Others obviously find BackPack useful.
For me, GTD is about freeing myself from the burden of my digital life, not tying myself to it more and more. And in order to do that, all I need is deck of blank 3X5 index cards and a Moleskine (Ok, a large supply of both!).

TECHNORATI: GTD, BackPack, Hipster PDA, Index Cards, Moleskine

Rumour over at Techdirt is that United Airlines is going to offer very pricey WiFi to their passengers. [here]
Scoble tells us that SAS offers this service for $30. On a flight to Europe or to the West Coast, $30 for connected WiFi is a very good deal.
However, Scoble also points out the other problem: power.
United is where I collect my airline loyalty miles. If they would get some customer service, I would be happy to fly with them more often.
Peter Davidson has more on this here.

TECHNORATI: WiFi, United Airlines, Scoble, Boeing, SAS

We had a party for the boys at the Consulate today, complete with an inflatable moonwalk jumper.
They are completely fried: deep, crispy and Kentucky. But they both had a lot of fun and I got to meet a lot of the parents I hear about, but never see in person.
And it is still stinkin’ hot up here. One of those nights where you wish the storm would come.

It’s all over the web tonight. Intel-powered Apples. Back in the middle of May, I speculated that given the slow development on cooling the G5 enough to fit into a laptop, Apple was stuck. It had to choose either Intel or AMD to move forward.
Even if this predicted marriage does not come true, Apple has a tough choice to make soon. The PowerPC chip is falling behind.
Then again, Jobs could surprise us all, again.

TECHNORATI: Apple, Intel, Steve Jobs, Powerbook, AMD

Enough with the G5 Powerbook rumours.
Well, unless Steve Jobs has found a way to defy the laws of physics, a picture of the G5 Powerbook can be found here.
A G5 Powerbook violates the zeroth, first, second, third, and most likely the Illuminati-held secret fourth law of thermodynamics.
Calm down. Not physically possible.
Oh, I forgot: you’re Apple people. Reality is as The Steve preacheth.