To unload my brain.
Off to The Philippines for eight days. Bohol. Bit of diving. Bit of beach. Bit of Chocolate Hills. Little bit of tarsier. Lots of reading and relaxing.
Back on the 6th Feb.
Kung Hei Fat Choy!
[NOTE: while I'm away, I've upped my comment spam filter to super mean mode, so it may be difficult to comment, but then there will be nothing to comment on, soooo ....]
I need to get an asides category.
Anyway, here they are:
What MS Office v12 is going to look like, here’s a vid all about it and a blog all about it.
FFS – imagine the smell.
Arctic Monkeys – set for fastest selling debut.
Google is about to change:
Google is testing a new data center infrastructure, a feat much bigger and comprehensive than an algorithm change. Dubbed “Big Daddy” both in the search marketing blogs and forums and by the friendly folks at Google, this new data center—still in shakedown mode—will reportedly add new ground-level capabilities into the Google search function and drive those powers deep into all the algorithms with which Google searches, studies and indexes the Web.
It may also change in look.
101 Dumbest Moments in Business.
An interview with Digg’s founder Kevin Rose.
Oh, and to the Aussies, Happy Invasion Day.
I really need a holiday. Well I’ve got one, leaving on Saturday for 8 days. Lovely.
Anyway, at the moment, I’m really feeling some sort of self imposed pressure that I need to organise my information and data in a more efficient manner.
I attempt to use del.icio.us for links that I want to read later and Ta-da Lists for to-do lists. See, both of those are online and I can add items when I like and retrieve at both home and work. I still end up sending emails home from work with notes or links. I then pretty much lose them in my inbox and forget about them.
I’d love some sort of online note-taker. There probably is something like that. Ah yes – actually looks awesome. GTD with BackPack. Looks great!
Anyway, once I get home, I want to organise my data there. So, I’m going to be checking out:
I’m addicted. I simply cannot stop buying them. I have enough unread books at home to take up five to ten years at the pace I currently read. Still I just received 22 books from Amazon — all the rest of the Flashman that I didn’t have, some other George MacDonald Fraser books and a load of nice easy holiday thrillers from Lee Child and Harlan Coben. Not enough though. The Does Anything Eat Wasps book has put me on a knowledge and science vibe, so I just popped out to buy:
Six Easy Pieces: Fundamentals of Physics Explained
Surely You’re Joking, Mr.Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
The Wisdom of Crowds
A Short History of Nearly Everything (even though I have the hardback!)
I also have too many bags, but since I’m going away again soon, I thought I needed a new bag. I didn’t really, but the Samsonite 750 Series / PRO-DLX Prox Lapt. Briefc. S D31*039 is great!
The Motion Picture Assn. of America, the leader in the global fight against movie piracy, is being accused of unlawfully making a bootleg copy of a documentary that takes a critical look at the MPAA’s film ratings system.
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