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The Moleskine evangelist in me has given up protesting. I think I’ve finally made him understand that there’s no shame being absolutely outstanding at one thing – as opposed to being pretty good at everything. Making an evangelist understand anything is a challenge, but Mr. Moleskine (yes, he has a name) is especially contrary when [...]

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My most-recent GTD refresher course with David Allen’s seminar stuff (Getting Things Done Fast) has proven to be just like every other one I’ve been through: It’s resulted in me learning/discovering something new.
This time around, I picked up on something subtle that David said somewhere in Disc One. He’s talking the tools (gear) that you [...]

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Another Sunday at Sea World

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For those of you who have spent any time tweaking, installing, massaging, and customizing a Joomla! installation – or better yet, doing so with components – you might share my frustration here.
It’s typical for larger PHP-based CMS suites to provide a massive collection of language-specific text strings for use throughout the program. These strings are [...]

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One of the things that David Allen talks about is the amount of time required to truly become a GTD Ninja. That’s not his term, it’s mine (or maybe Merlin’s), but the premise is clear: how long does it typically take to make GTD an integrated, instinctive part of your tool kit?
Well, I take heart [...]

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