Funny comment spam
Sparring with bots in a battle of wits. Those with blogs know what I’m talking about.
Location aware to-do items
A blog. Yes I have a blog. How interesting.
Now that I’ve drunk the “Getting things Done” kool-aid I have an idea:
Location aware ToDo list sorting. Use the GPS features of cellphones etc to sort your NextActions list by location … so that you can glance down to see what you should be doing in a particular place. You could also set reminders to beep you when you walk past the library (Return book) or post office (post letter).
How did I come to be using the Getting things Done book. Well you see I’m not usually one for the self-help books but I really was sucking at organizing my various projects etc. And I’ve only ever changed one long term thing about myself that I didn’t like: I no longer bite my nails. How? I completely obsessed over them, cutting, filing and buffing on a daily schedule. Whenever I’d go to bite I’d file or buff instead.
Now I figure the only way to get organized is to slavishly follow a system. And after I’d made that decision I was just waiting for a system to offer itself up to me. And GTD was sweeping the blogs at the time so it was such an obvious match ;)
So far so good. But Sam’s club didn’t have one of them auto labelling machines. Bugger. Lots of folders though ;)
Reliable LibLookup for Syracuse University Catelogue
Ages ago I bloged the Library Lookup project that John Udell put together.
Anyway I was putting this on the PhD wiki but it doesn’t process javascript links properly so I needed a place to put the functioning link.
So here is the latest and greatest and reliably working for me link SU Library Lookup. You should be able to drag that up to your link bar and whenever you are on a page with a ISBN in the URL you should be able to check if Bird has it.
Australia puts USA to the sword
No we didn’t abandon the Free trade treaty and so are still stuck with the stupid extension to our copyright laws forced on us by the Mouse’s captors.
But we did wallop the USA at cricket ;) Let’s just say that it took 7.5 overs (of the usual 50) to reel in the USA’s `total’ and leave it at that, eh?
Gloating over thrashing such a minnow is, perhaps, a little pathetic given cricket isn’t a big game in the USA.
But hell, I have to deal with ra-ra-ra USA everyday and it ain’t my fault they decided to go with rounders instead of a real game.
Comment by brad on Sep 21, 2004 11:08 AMspeaking of rounders didn’t Australia get silver (ra-ra-ra) at the Olympics behind cuba? If I saw that right, what happened to rounders playing USA?
Great student property insurance
Haylor, Freyer and Coon sell a student personal effects policy to Syracuse University students, backed by Atlantic Mutual Companies.
The policy is a great one on paper and now after experiencing a claim with them I can say that it is a great one in practice. For a $50 annual premium I bought $2,000 of cover with a $100 deductible. The policy covers personal effects against damage or theft, and University property in your care, anywhere in the world (The only exclusion is property in your parent’s house).
On paper a great policy and their turnaround can’t be beaten. My bike was stolen from on campus and they turned the entire claim around in two weeks—one week from receiving my notarized statement of claim to me having the cheque in my hands. All that without me having the receipts to the bike (because it was bought ages ago in Australia). And they funded the as-new replacement price.
Can’t ask for more than that. So bravo Haylor, Freyer and Coon they have an online sign-up.
The end of politics
It’s a hacknied phrase but this paragraph really caught my eye. It’s from an article about the absense of Putin in the aftermath of the Russian school hostage nightmare
“Politics is really dead, but in a way that is dangerous for Putin. This is the moment of truth for the country. The Duma is afraid to convene an emergency meeting,” she said, referring to the lower house of parliament. “Nobody has made a comment. The president is hiding. The government is hiding. This is the end of politics, when no one wants to take responsibility.”
Missing WMD anyone? Someone screwed up but all the politicians were implicated, Kerry included, because they relied on secrets and “If you knew what I knew” arguments. Politics as usual can’t solve situations where all the participants are implicated.
Best of luck Hala
Just a note to say Bon Voyage to my PhD program colleague Hala Annabi as she flits over to Seattle to take up her new faculty position. Hala has been working with Kevin Crowston on the open source research and has been a great source of inspiration.
She was also the reason I was able to eat for the first few months after I arrived in Syracuse. If it wasn’t for her mercy trips to the Supermarket I may well have starved completely!
So, Hala, bon voyage and enjoy Seattle. I’ll be interested to see if that non-coffee drinking thing actually survives ;)
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