Musings

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Last week I dropped my P800 3 meters onto a concrete floor. The screen broke so I sent it in for repairs. Today I got a call that the repair is going to cost over CHF300 - a new P800 can be had for about CHF 900. While I like the P800, it has enough warts that I’m considering an alternative. Right now I have re-lived my Handspring Visor and my old R520. I really, really, really liked that I had all my adresses on the phone and being able to call any number without further syncing. ...

Sort a Table using Javascript. [via design media]

The book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen is one of my all time favorites. David has helped my productivity enormously with his workflow process and most of all the idea, that you need to get all of the things you need to do out of your head and on paper so they will stop nagging you. Now he has written a new book, “Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work ans Life”. It’s a collection of thoughts that he has been sharing on the mailing list of his DavidCo web site, organized and rewritten. The very first chapter, “Cleaning up creates new directions” had me scrambling to do a full brain dump of all the things and projects that I need to be working on. Getting them out on paper (or in my case into LifeBalance has helped me on getting a few things done right away and a much better understanding of what I need to do during the next days and weeks - and boy - there is a lot of things that need to be done. ...

So I’m a master geek! I scored 70% on the Geek IT Test which ranks me as master geek. Take the test, but don’t forget your Mailinator email adress when you do. [via Duffbert ]

Jef Raskin commented on my mini-review of his book “The Humane Interface” and provided a link to the demo of the zooming interface. It’s a interactive flash movie, that shows a Zooming User Interface at work. I’m not sure, if the ZUI realy is THE way to represent a large amount of data or not. It seems to be easy enough, but I wonder if this is the right metaphor? On the other hand, Jef has quite a bit more experience with this than I do, so I bow to his expertise. Oh - and in the demo, the missing screenshot of the humane editor is included (and it’s also on the website) ...