Seriously over the past few months I have been so obsessed with finding the perfect GTD/Todo System that I have become less productive. I reached a point that I was downloading the same desktop system or signing up on the same site a few times a week. It’s crazy. I scower the internet looking for anything that is GTD/Todoish and I either sign up or download it immediately. Once I’m in I give it about a 5 minute once over. In that time I look for ease of use, Firefox plugins (very important), iGoogle/Netvibes modules, SMS options, email/gmail integration, lots of Ajaxy goodness, a mass import function and on and on. Then I’m done. Most of the time I never go back or when I do it’s because I forgot that I had already seen it several time before. What’s even crazier is that I use Todoist to track the sites I sign up for so what I come of my binge I have some trail to account my lost productivity. Oh but just to keep my self on the edge of insanity I bounce between using Google Notebook, Toodledo, Vitalist and Remember The Milk for tracking my Obsession as well.
During one of my “this is the last GTD site I’ll sign up for” binges I got all jazzed up about using Backpack as my personal nerve center. I set up several different pages for Todo’s, Contacts, Reminders, Links and what not. I gave it the bold title of “My Life Organized”. Then just a few days ago I stumbled upon my Backpack site and this should come as no surprise that the site was pretty much empty. The main page with the bold title was blank. Just the title “My Life Organized” heading on a blank page. No Todos, no contacts. Just a good idea not executed.
But it’s not just GTD stuff it’s everything these days. Firefox Plugins to Blogging and Task Management. Google Desktop, Yahoo Widgets, Offline Desktop apps and Outlook plugins and GMail Greasmonkey scripts. For gods sakes I logged in to Facebook and said give me one of every thing on their apps page. I had to reset my Netvibes account because it becme so over loaded with GTDish modules. I’ve got so many Greasemonkey scripts for GMail that when ever I open GMail in a new tab Firefox comes to a screeching hault and it takes up to 2 minutes to load my inbox. Oh and if the GTD app offers GCal/iCal integration you can beet your sweet a$$ that I’ve added it to my GCal account.
Wow, I’m starting to feel a lot better now that I got that off my chest.
So if you’re going to comment please do not feel the need to recommend any Web Apps or Software unless of course it’s a really cool one and I shouldn’t miss it.
For about 5 seconds I was excited about The Ajax Experience Conference, not because it’s about Ajax but because it’s in Boston, until I saw the price to attend.
$1,250 If you pre-register before Sept 26.
$1,450 After that.
$1,250!! $1,450!!
For a conference!?
It’s not like this is TechED or the Hooters Waitress convention. It’s just Ajax.
This is obvisouly an attempt to extort just a bit more money before this over-hyped technology implodes.
What a rip-off: $1,450.
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Like anything else once a good idea gets out into the public people will fall over themselves trying to mimic what’s already been done. Remember back in the 80’s when video shops were poping up on every street corner. And remember how the shelves were jammed with bad (cheesey) apocalypse movies. Well that’s what this new internet boom is looking like. You’ve got your A list of reddit,Technorati, FeedBurner, Flickr and del.ico.us to name a few and then you’ve got the B list with Blogmarks, Pixel Groovy, itsdEx and Pooln just to name a few more Web2.0-ers. I’m not saying that the B list is sub-par, it’s just that they seemed to come on the scene after the start and maybe just before the peak.
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The day started off with me trying to creat a Ajaxified version of Wired’s (Issue 14.09) “Build a Web 2.0 Startup!” from buzzwords article. The gist of it is that you grab some key words from 4 list lists: Market, Hyped Tech, Service and Architecture and then apply them to this sentence:
It’s a [Market] site that uses [Hyped Tech] and [Hyped Tech] to do [Service] in a [Architecture ]. We call it [Pun or Misspelled Word].
For example they use Music, Ajax, Streaming, Recommendation and Social Network to get this:
It’s a Music site that uses Ajax and Streaming to do Recommendations in a Social Network. We call it LAST.FM.
So my dream Web 2.0 that google will buy for a million dollars is this:
It’s a Reviews site that uses Ajax and Tagging to do Recommendations in a Social Network. I call it gotFoo.
Anyway I wasted an hour trying to build a web page that would let you drag and drop the key words on to the sentence using script.aculo.us. So if google doesn’t buy my site tonight I’ll give the acript another shot tomorow.
Most articles and posts about the “C# vs VB.NET” argument conclude that the two languages are equal and only differ slightly. Although I agree with this I think the real difference is not the syntax of these languages but the way they are implemented. After 9 months of using VB.NET (on someone eles’s app) I have found that old school VB developers cannot let go of classic VB and have not embraced the power of .NET.
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GET YOUR OWN ENTRY IN AN ENCYCLOPEDIA. In the media age, everybody was famous for 15 minutes. In the Wikipedia age, everybody can be an expert in five minutes. Special bonus: You can edit your own entry to make yourself seem even smarter. ~ Steven Colbert Wired 14.08: Be an Expert on Anything
Well if Colbert says it’s a good idea then maybe I should do it.
I wonder how long it will last?
Not very long.
