Archive for May, 2005
Mark Lloyd on To Do lists
Mark Lloyd has been threatening to write a blog for a while and he kicked off this week, under the wonderful title
Without Prejudice
(Mark is a lawyer).
This post
had me nodding in agreement. This bit in particular, on To Do lists as a sort of journal, is really good:
The thing is I love looking at old “TODO Lists”. They are like the diary that I don’t keep. They immediately take me back to where I was at the moment I created the list. I can look back and see what has been done and what has been left behind. Invariably, you are left wondering why you were so worried about something, when with the benefit of hindsight, it’s obvious it wasn’t worth the trouble. Plus there’s the recurrent themes. The things that you regularly fail to get done. Like starting a blog. Well, at least I can tick that off now.
Add Without Prejudice to your feed reader
.
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May 27th, 2005
Anagram
is a pretty neat utility which captures address and telephone number text blocks from email or the web, then sorts the information into the correct fields to create an Outlook contact. When it works, it’s a brilliant timesaver, but when I tried it a while ago, I found one flaw: Anagram’s handling of UK address and postcode combinations was poor.
Until now. Marc Orchant on the The Office Weblog,
, noted the new version’s “Enhanced text processing for UK addresses.”
I downloaded the generous 45 day trial and asked Anagram to capture an email signature which included a name; a UK address; phone, fax and mobile numbers; a URL, and an email address. Everything, including the address was captured flawlessly, and the whole process - from highlighting the target data to closing the new Contact - took less than ten seconds. It’s a massive timesaver and - with the strong pound - costs little over a tenner.
Download Anagram now
.
I am sure I was not the only one to email Anagram’s makers and ask them to improve their UK address support, but it’s great to see user requests answered like this. Well done, Anagram
May 24th, 2005
just pointed out that Frankie Manning is 91. Who’s Frankie Manning? He is only
the King of Swing… the coolest man on earth…
One of the original Whitey’s Lindy Hoppers from the Savoy Ballroom, Manning stopped dancing for 30 years when swing fell to rock and roll and disco. But Sandra Cameron and friends brought him out of retirement when they begged him to teach them how to dance the Savoy style. He’s been teaching and performing ever since. Taking a class with him is like dancing with Fred Astaire.
Frankie Manning and partner, Big Bea, were the first swing dancers to do “airsteps.” Check the photos on the
Savoy Style site
.
I haven’t been dancing in ages. Anyone fancy coming with me to
Stompin’ at the 100 Club
?
May 24th, 2005
Engineer2Entrepreneur
warns us not to specialise our lives away. Great writing:
The most important thing to realize is to specialize in work is not to specialize in life. You need to mingle with other ideas and people. New ideas don’t come into an industry from inside the industry but from outside it. Other industries face similar problems and find solutions, apply them to your own.
May 24th, 2005
Over at Blog Business World,
at business association meetings, conferences and so on:
Bloggers have a powerful inner knowledge of the workings of blogs. That is only logical. What we bloggers often tend to forget is not everyone knows as much about blogs and blogging as we do.
As bloggers, we can help out the rest of society. In particular, we can make our knowledge available as speakers to business and professional groups and organizations. Along with business blog presentations, we can also talk about the blog benefit for non-profit organizations, as well as professional and journalism groups.
We simply have to make ourselves available as speakers.
Great advice. Now all we have to do is to master the noble art of public speaking. At this point, I can do little better than point you to
Tom Peter’s
“Rules for Gettin’ Good at Speechifying” on page 142 of
:
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- See No. 1 above
May 23rd, 2005
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