If you’ve got a Newsvine.com account, and have an invitation to spare, care to share? (turnip at turnipville dot com)
I’m eager to give it a go…
Thanks in advance
Thanks, Andy, for hooking me up. I’m good to go.
There are some things I absolutely love about my 9300 – now that I’ve been using it for a few months – and there are some things that I despise. For your benefit, let’s break those down.
Things that rock on the 9300:
Things that suck on the 9300:
Given that my wife has given me an “IOU” for 3/4 of the price of a new T-Mobile MDA (HTC Wizard) for Valentine’s Day, I suspect that my 9300 will be on eBay within the month.
For some reason, I’ve taken to despising the old layout.
I don’t have a clue why that might be – especially given the amount of time that I spent tweaking the old template – but simplicity is the word of season. As such, the new Turnipville (running a slightly modified version of the “What’s Your Solution” theme) is slimmed down, simpler, and overall more pleasing to my eye.
Of course, no wonderful template is worth a damn if the site is devoid of content; Turnipville has been devoid of new content for a few weeks now. While the list of excuses is like Slider’s johnson (“long but distinguished”), they’re not worth their proverbial weight in salt, and it’s high time I man up and deal with it.
I’ve found myself repeating obscurities like “there aren’t enough hours in the day,” and “one of these days I’m going to (insert as-of-yet unachieved goal here).” So congratulations, Turnipville. You’re now squarely back in my online GTD repository, and will be treated accordingly.
For those of you who are staring at your RSS aggregator in disbelief, amazed that I’m getting back in the saddle, and scoffing at my commitments…bravo. You’re still subscribed to the number one blog at this URL.
I’m sitting in the lobby of my local hair stylist. I always get my hair cut here, and simply have no desire to try and find another place…even when it’s crammed with people (like now).
But I have never been able to understand how difficult people find processes. At my particular location,they require patrons to sign a sheet when they arrive. It’s their little way of tracking who’s waiting for a haircut, what stylist they prefer, what they’re having done, etc. There’s a large sign above the register encouraging (insisting) that people sign in when they arrive.
Well there are four other people sitting in the lobby, and my name is the only one on the sheet.
By my estimation, I should be the customer; after all, I followed instructions. But it won’t work that way…they’ll call my name, and one of the three people in front of me will voice an objection. I’ll acquiesce, and the stylist will lecture the others for not signing in.
This happens every time.
Each day, I’m reminded of just how small a world this is. I just got a call from a company who wants to do some work for us. When he introduced himself, his name was familiar; so at the end of the conversation, I asked him where he went to school.
It turns out that he and I were classmates for seven or eight years of schooling, starting in elementary school and ending in high school.
Coupled with the modern miracles of the web (i.e. MySpace’s popularity), I’d be surprised if we ever lose touch with anyone in this small, small world.