A startup blogged about their choice to go with hosted web apps instead of the traditional office suite in order to save money. It got me thinking more about a dilema I’ve had about deciding whether it’s time for me to start taking the company I work for away from Microsoft.
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Found this on the 37 Signals blog. Seems easy to do and it might help keep you from making mistakes, but it might be a bit confusing to kids just learning to multiply. I usually take notes on graph paper, so I’ll have to keep this in mind next time I need to do a quick calculation.
Hmm… I already tried getting up earlier and all that got me was more hours at work.
Maybe I’ll go for a walk after lunch.
Javier posted to the 43 Folders Google group about a Moleskine hack he came up with. I’ve been doing something similar with a Japanese style fold-out Moleskine. I divided it up into sections with stick on tabs for contexts. I have tabs for @Work, @Home, @Errands, and @Reference. Read the rest of this entry »
In the end I went with TaskSwitchXP. It’s not really the same thing as the others, but it works for me.
As a side note, I’m going to give the two monitor thing a try again so I can keep MyLifeOrganized , and a few other things visable at all times. I’m working off a laptop with a 17″ widescreen and for a second monitor I have a 19″ LCD (and a 21″ CRT at home). After some messing around, my resolutions are 1440×900 and 1600×1200.
