RIM/NTP Lawsuit – RIM “Workaround” November 20, 2005
Posted by Gary Slinger in : Blackberry, Technology , add a commenthttp://www.blackberrycool.com/2005/11/17/001090/
Users of the popular BlackBerry wireless device will not lose their service if maker Research In Motion Ltd. is hit with an injunction in a U.S. court case, a top RIM executive said on Wednesday. RIM Co-Chief Executive Jim Balsillie said the company recently completed a software upgrade that it may deploy in a bid to work around the patents involved in its legal dispute with NTP Inc.
“We’re endeavoring to plan for every scenario,” he told Reuters on the sidelines of the UBS Global Communications conference inNew York. “Our customers can be calm that there won’t be an interruption of service.”
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Using Del.Icio.Us November 20, 2005
Posted by Gary Slinger in : RSS, Uncategorized , add a commentI finally got around to installing plug-ins to all my browsers, both on my laptop and on my desktop. I still use IE, because (a) I always have(!), and (b) I access some corporate applications that simply work better in IE. For my reading and blogging, however, I’m a happy user of Firefox, and have also been playing with Flock — in fact, I’m writing this post from within Flock now. I like that Flock just needs me to hit one button, nice and clear, on the menu bar, to get stuff into del.icio.us. I have a bookmarklet for IE that does the same. Firefox, I choose to use a plugin, although I’ve got the bookmarklet as well. The plugin is more functional, but you have to right-click I can live with it.
In any event. having made it easy to push links, with comments, into del.icio.us, I’ve also configured it to post my daily links into the blog.
Why?
Well, personal convenience for a start – the blog is going to turn into a personal knowledge repository, that I can readily reference and search. I subscribe to my own feeds, using Newsgator and Outlook, so I get a copy of every post I make as an email. Those sit in the offline file with the rest of my email, that I can refer to wherever I am, and that I can index using the MSN Desktop Search or the Google Desktop. I see a lot of different websites, most days, like most people. Some will generate “real” posts to the blog, others will just be “background information”. This makes an easy way for me to remember that “oh yes, I read an article on that subject a while back…” and then find it again.
So, if you see a post full of links, brief notes, and some tags, with no substantive comment in and of itself, you now know what it is.
Some reference links:
technorati tags: del.icio.us, tagging, blogging, tags, plugins, bookmarklets
WordPress.com Error? November 20, 2005
Posted by Gary Slinger in : Weblogs , add a commentWordPress won’t let me set the categories on the previous post to “GTD” and “Time Management”, insisting on my default category of “Random Observations” instead. Working through possibilities now, and I’ll file a bug report as appropriate… In the meantime, I’m leaving the post (”What is GTD?”) in the “now”, rather than backdating it where I want it.
Update:
Seems related to including an image. I created a new post, and it accepted the category settings correctly. I then pasted in the text of the original post, and it was still fine. Added the photo, and boom! Category locked to “Random Observations”. Take the pic out, and all is well. Change the timestamp on the new post, and it correctly goes where it needs to.
I’ve marked the troublesome post as “Private” so that it stays in the blog, as I’ve submitted this as an issue to WordPress.com via the Feedback option.
What is GTD? November 20, 2005
Posted by Gary Slinger in : GTD, Time Management , add a commentGTD is the acronym, and common nickname, for Getting Things Done, a time and personal organization management methodology, written by David Allen. The book of the subject can be found at Amazon here, David Allen’s company is here, and his own explanation of what GTD is can be found here.
I personally use the GTD methodology, with a few minor tweaks to my own circumstances and preferences, as is common to many practitioners of it. I use a Blackberry as my primary communications tool; it often becomes my always-available capture device (read the book…), as it is always with me. But, depending on the circumstances, I may also use a HipsterPDA, again, modified to my own purposes (which is the whole point of the hPDA), or Microsoft OneNote, or MindJet MindManager — the important thing, in GTD terms and techniques, is that no matter who I create actions or record information, everything ultimately ends up in one Inbox, for later processing. In my case, I use Microsoft Outlook, and the NetCentrics GTD Add-In.
The book retails for less than ten dollars. There are a multitude of sites, blogs and discussion groups around the web discussion the application of the methodology; you could read those without having read the book first, but the maximum benefit comes with the book. It’s an easy read, although actually implementing the processes for the first time may require you to set aside a weekend, or a series of evenings (everyone’s circumstances are different). If you only read one organizational management guide book, this would be the one I recommend.
The rest of the “GTD” category on this site will have comments about specific situations and scenarios relating to the implementation and use of GTD, and any relevant articles about the topic I see and recommend. The separate “Time Management” category will contain more general observations and links.
Check it out, let me know what you think – comments are always welcome.
(Sidebar: This is a backdated post. I’m actually writing it at 12:20 on November 20th. I want to put this into the early part of the GTD category as an explanatory post, as I intend to refer someone to this, and the whole category block. I’m also interested to see if the post, being backdated like this, turns up correctly in the RSS feed, if at all, as a basis for future knowledge).
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