After implementing GTD and discovery that I am overcommitted, and maybe too ambitious, I am now working on simplifying my life to only do what I need to do. Yes, there are some nice projects, some of them now realistically in “Someday Maybe” and “Stalled”, but maybe these items should be thrown-out all together.
Maybe is is just a coincidence that the music I was buying is old and was probably transferred from CD, but I made my first Amazon MP3 purchase yesterday and I could hear compression skips and other signs of low audio quality. I have always been a skeptic and only recently started to buy iTunes music as opposed to buying CDs and ripping them into my iPhone (for mobile listening - I prefer studio-quality listening at home). I now consider the $8.99 I paid for the music to be just the price of convenience… I will still try and find the physical CD and buy it, thus paying twice for the same album.
I just learned that either by coincidence, or because I seem to be subconsciously picking companies that have a good heart, Site5/ThePlanet, Rackspace and others are teaming up to raise some money for the Red Cross for the effort in Haiti.
I have been torn between moving out of my comfy 800 ft. sq. office space in the lower level of my house to a rented space in town just to get to interact with more people than I currently do… should I admit that I am kinda missing having to go to the office? YES!
What I do not miss is having to work for someone else (I do work for my clients now, but I can phase them out) or rather, having to work for the same company/person every day.
I am therefore considering setting up a co-working environment in Leominster Massachuseets, and carefully renting the workspaces to people with skills that can have a symbiotic relationship with the kind of work I do - and to be a little shallow, I am already thinking of the nice things that the office will have to make people want to come to work: good coffee, tea, printers that work, sofas, free Wi-fi, shared receptionist etc…
If you are a freelancer that needs a place to work in Leominster, contact me and I will let you know what the cost and terms will be - Click on the logo to go to idonny.com and contact me from there.
This application/service has been so good to me and the many users it has out there that I even for got that it was there, hence this comment that is about a year overdue. I use dropbox all the time… especially when I need to quickly move files to my PC to print on a printer that does not have Mac drivers, or when I need to quickly refer to something that is on one of my machines, in the hope that it is in my dropbox folder. With a new and native iPhone application, it is going to become a backbone application.
Hey, I just noticed that you can take photos right into Dropbox from the iPhone… no more tethered sync necessary to safeguard those —- good riddance for the mandatory USB ball & chain from apple :))
I am currently troubleshooting imagecache issues and also working on migrating iDonny.com to the new dedicated sevrer. I will blog more about the imagecache issue especially after I find out why it is not generating images in the correct directories. I have played around with CHMOD settings, and I think that the cause might be permissions or conflict with another module since fresh install seems to work.
Since I have too much content and would like to get to the bottom of the issue, I will not content myself with side-stepping the cause by just creating a new install of the CMS
I have been using Site5 servers for 4 years, and I recently decided to buy more servers from them (dedicated). I must note that they are responsive and reliable in a way that is beyond expectation for any service costing under $200.
If feels like they works for me because as I setup web services for my clients, if I run into any issue with the leased infrastructure, all I have to do is to create a ticket and they normally respond within a few minutes…. just as if I had my own IT department - mind-you, today is a Saturday, but they are still on the ball regardless
The company site - idonny.com has been offline for a few hours now. This is because I am currently migrating the domain and applications to a bigger, and better dedicated server. The ETA for service to resume is about 1-2 hours from now (around noon EST). I will post an update as soon as there is new information -
12h45 EST
idonny.com DNS is up, but propagating - Sorry for the intermittent service, will stabilize soon
Omnifocus Perspectives for iPhone …. It’s about time!!
Finally, after some months of rumours and promises, OmniFocus for iPhone now supports “Perspectives” along with some conveniences and eye-candy. I have just made the iPhone update and I cannot wait to go to my Mac and create some Perspectives that I know will work well for on-the-road situations.
The Omni-people made it clear that this is an experimental feature (unless they are becoming like Google which has everything in perpetual beta). It is good that it is in beta because I would like to see the feature built-upon a little more… talk about giving me a yard and I want a mile :))
I started a media temple (mt) grid hosting account on Friday and I now notice that support over the weekend is kinda sluggish… and they seem to live upto the 20 hour delay on tickets (not too good). Most of the companies I have tested tend to provide an estimate that they can beat - you know the branding rule (setting expectations) that recommends setting expectations you can beat and impress
