by cameron | Jul 11, 2007 | Christianity, Iran, Uncategorized
Mike Moore gets stuck into Wolf on CNN:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bs_LBXD69w]
(via Chris Pirillo’s twitter)
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Remember Marc Rich? The guy indicted by Guiliani for trading illegally with Iran and tax evasion who then received a Presidential Pardon from Clinton in the last hours of his Presidency because he was a large donor to the Democratic Party? Well guess who his US attorney was from 1985 until 2000? None other than Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the current recipient of Presidential largess. Small world.
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Via CC Chapman:
Another amazing video from Britain Has Talent. Check out this 6 year old girl singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Bloody amazing.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8]
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The iPhone is cool but – will it blend?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI]
Thanks Leslie Nassar!
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Duncan Riley put me onto this online film called Zeitgeist. It’s an examination of the central mythologies of Christianity and showing where they come from. According to the doco, the vast majority of the Jesus stories in the New Testament are direct rip-offs from the story of Horus dating back to 2000BCE.
Check out these similarities. Pretty compelling stuff. Any of the Christians out there have a good answer?
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by cameron | Jul 10, 2007 | Uncategorized
Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later.
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Productivity tip of the day – delete the “Latest News” live feed from Firefox toolbar. I think I checked that 50 times a day. It’s now GONE.
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How do you know that someone in Facebook is real?
I went to add Richard Dawkins to my Facebook friends list today and was writing him an introduction message when I thought – how do I know this is really Dawkins? I stumbled upon his profile in the Atheism group. But how do I know this isn’t some 16 year old kid who created Dawkins’ profile? Is there anyway of telling?
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Anyone else still getting telemarketing calls even though you’re on the Do Not Call register? I actually registered a complaint about one today from “Freedom Escape”, some kind of holiday packages outfit.
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I love what Kimberley from Evolve has done with the magazine I got in the mail today.
Check out the sub-title!
If you want to read the article on the panel that Duncan, Jim and I did, read:
The Lunatics in Charge
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I did a Myers-Briggs test today and it said my personality type is INTP. For some reason, people on Twitter find that hard to believe….
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by cameron | Jul 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
Does anyone out there know how to print a filtered outline in MindManager? I’m using Mindjet’s MindManager Pro 6 and when I filter my map to isolate certain tasks, and then view it in Outline View, the print option is disabled. Seems stupid to me. Anybody know how to get around this? I tried cutting and pasting it to Microsoft Word but Word doesn’t preserve the formatting (check boxes, icons, etc).
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I can’t believe I *still* do not have a listing in Wikipedia.
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Anyone out there got the edition of B&T Magazine which came out last Friday? I think that’s the one with my article in the Digital Media insert. UPDATE: Ignore that, I think it doesn’t come out for another week?
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Apparently, this 16 year old kid called J Milburn doesn’t think I am “notable” enough to be in Wikipedia. J Milburn deleted a page about me that someone (might have been Daniel Bowen, he brought it to my attention) put up. Of course, TPN is in Wikipedia (thanks Tom). But apparently my role in that doesn’t make me “notable” enough, in J Milburn’s view. What I’d like everyone out there with a blog to do is to write up a small post about J Milburn and tell him how notable you think I am. Make sure you link to this post. Mmmkay?
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Atheism is pretentious and cowardly – says this guy Theo Hobson with the Village People mustache.
The best bit is the attitude and number of comments! The “militant atheists” give Theo a kick in the pants. Judging by that mustache, he might enjoy a little bit of that too. Thanks to Russell Buckley for the link.
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by cameron | Jul 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
About a week ago I installed Thunderbird again and I think I’ve cooked up the ultimate combination of tools for handling email. I was previously (for three years) working just in the Gmail client and while it’s been okay, I have needed a platform and process that allows me a chance to adapt my working process to a higher degree than Gmail does in the browser. I think the TB/GM combination has everything I am going to need.
Here’s what the process I’m currently using.
1. Make sure before you install Thunderbird, you go into your Gmail settings and set the POP forwarding to “new mail only”. Otherwise, if you’re like me, you sit there for hours waiting for Thunderbird to download 2Gb worth of old mail. And, as you’ll find out shortly, you aren’t going to use TB to store email anyway.
2. Once you have TB configured to receive your Gmail (and the latest version of TB makes that very easy), you might want to set up some folders under your Inbox. For example, I’ve got these folders currently set up.
The reason for the folders is that I’m going to be creating some filters.
3. The reason for the filters is that I get a couple of hundred emails each day and I need a good way to prioritise them. So whenever an email comes into my inbox, I try to assign a filter to it so the next time I get an email from that person it ends up bypassing my inbox and ending up in one of the folders. That way I can scan my folders a few times a day and attack the most important emails first.
Why not just use Gmail filters? One reason – right click. I found the whole process of setting up filters in Gmail very slow and frustrating. With TB, you open the email, right click the sender’s email address, and select “Create Filter From Message”. It’s a far smoother process. It’s also easier to colour-code your messages, tag them, etc. And you can drag-and-drop them into folders or into the Trash.
4. Here’s the best tip – once I’ve processed an email, I *delete* it. Yup. Why? Because this is Gmail – access to an old email is a click away by opening up a browser window. No point storing them locally when Google does it for you. So when you re-build your PC you don’t need to worry about backing up old emails. It’s all in the cloud, baby.
So… that’s my current email process. If you have any additional tips to handling large quantities of email per day, let me know.
UPDATE: Something Jodie Miners reminded me of. This solution probably ISN’T going to work for those of you who operate regularly across several machines. These days I don’t travel as much as I used to, so my desktop machine is where I am handling email 95% of the time. When I am away from home, I check Gmail from my phone or my laptop. I can still use the Gmail web interface for these out-of-context situations. However I’m never going to be trying to deal with 200+ emails in these situations, only emergency stuff. The Thunderbird interface is for handling bulk email on a daily basis.
UPDATE 12 July, 2007:
In case you don’t read David’s comments from below, I’ve added these to my TB install! Brilliant!
Another component I’ve added to the TB mix is hooking in Google Calendars using two plugins: Lightning + Provider for Google Calendars, which let me view and update my (multiple) Google Calendars from a sidebar within Thunderbird.
Get it!
Lightning 0.5
Provider for Google Calendar 0.21
by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Melbourne, Uncategorized
We’ve got about 35 people registered and a few of them have told me they are bringing friends, so it should be a fun night.
So we know how many to cater for, please register here if you are coming.
MODM is a new event for Melbourne’s Online Digital Media community to socialize and talk about everything that’s new in media:
+ Business models for podcasting, blogging, machinima, second life, mobile content, YouTube, MySpace, etc.
+ Using new media to change the world
+ The intersection of mainstream media and new media
+ How to build an audience, raise funding, legals, etc.
If you produce digital media, or want to produce digital media, this is the event for you.
by cameron | Jul 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
I came across this terrific site this morning from a link off of Ryan Rasmussen’s blog. Ryan works for Levenger, a company that sells beautiful writing and paper products. Scott Sherman put me onto them recently.
Anyway, back to DIY Planner. This site has a range of PDF templates that you can print off to create your own daily planner instead of buying the endless refills for your Franklin Day Planner or that you can use to insert into your Moleskine (which is how I think I’m going to use it). What a terrific open source project. I have suggested to Tony Goodson that he invites the guy behind the site onto the Productivity Show.
