Posts Tagged With: time
· May 22, 2008 at 4:09 am · Online Tools
Ready for a riddle? See if you can tell me what time it is here…
Here is a little more about what this clock is and how do you tell time on it?
Analogy is a typographic clock which explores the numerical and spatial qualities of digital and analogue clocks. This piece considers the relationship between the two, fusing them together to create a new hybrid format. It gives an everyday object a twist to make it something that people will notice.
They say a screensaver is coming soon - which is what I am waiting for personally. How about you? Check out the Analogy clock at Jessonyip.com.
· June 25, 2007 at 6:29 am · Personal
Well, last week was one heck of an interesting week for me - lot of crap going on this way and that way, but I think I’ve got my plate cleared off and ready to start over again this week. Much of what went on I don’t think I’ll make public - not because it is bad but because it just ain’t any of your business. 
Due to me being one busy mofo - I’m going to be leaving my writing duties over at Lockergnome. I still love Lockergnome and the crew, but it’s just not something my heart is in right now and that I have the time to do. Hopefully that will leave me a little more time to spread out to other projects and other things I have been meaning to do.
So yeah, things have happened - don’t want to talk about them - so why write? Just felt like I should at least let that one tidbit of information out there to the public. Now back to your regularly scheduled Mitchness.
· February 19, 2007 at 5:00 am · Personal
Now I wouldn’t call myself the most productive person I know, but from time to time I go have spurts of productivity and am able to do a large amount of tasks in a small time frame. I have become better over the last few years at managing my time and getting things done. I figured I would share how I get things done in order to better help some of the less organized out there.
One good way of getting more productive is to make yourself a list.
Now I know some people poo-poo this idea because it sets a goal that you can not reach. Your to do list might be really huge, and looking at it might discourage you from moving forward. For me though, a list is a good way to help me remember what my daily tasks should be and what my weekly tasks should be.
You shouldn’t put things on your list like “brush your teeth” or “take a bath”. Hopefully those are given tasks that you know that you will do by the time the day is over with. Things marked on the lists should not be everyday goals you set out to do. They should be the odd little things that take up your free time.
I want you to create two notes to yourself. One should be what you want to get done in a day (normal day to day tasks that you need to make note of). The other should be things you need to get done by the time the week is over with (these can be bigger tasks or jobs that you do not need to do every single day).
For example, if I know I have to write five articles, I could try to write them all in one day - but then they would probably be a little suckstatic in their quality. Instead, I have five days in the work week, so I can write down on my daily to do list - write an article. This way one job that would take several hours can now be spread out through the week and take only a few minutes.
Now what is a good way to write these notes to yourself? Here are a couple of program that should help you out in that department. Both allow you to put little sticky notes on your desktop to write things down on.
+ StickyPad
+ ATnotes
+ Stickies
The great lesson to be learned is to not overwork yourself. Instead of doing one big job today, make it into several little jobs you can spread out through the week. This way you can have more hours of your day to do other things you need to do.
· December 7, 2006 at 5:10 am · Personal
Alright, so maybe you are wondering what this is all about right?
I am no sicko, pervert or anything else like that. Let me first start this story with my problem. Once I started my new job, I seemed to have less and less time to listen to some of my favorite podcasts. So I thought, when could I get more listening time in?
The time I spend taking a shower and shaving is filled with silence, so I figured that would be a good time to get listening to podcasts into my routine again.
Well, the first thing I tried was wearing headphones while doing these activities. That did not work out so well, so I had to go with something different. Now my MP3 player is nothing great, it is a Dell Pocket DJ. Not the state of the art machine, but it has lasted me a long time. Getting an new setup just to get this to work seemed a little silly too. There has to be an easy way to get this done.
That is when I reached for my box of old computer parts and pulled out a pair of speakers. I plugged the speakers into the audio jack on the mp3 player and cranked it up as loud as it would go. It worked! Now I have a little more time to listen to my favorite podcasts and you have yourself a quick little tip on how you can do the same.
The moral of the story?
Never toss out that old computer equipment, because you never know when you might find a good use for it - even in the bathroom.
· September 27, 2006 at 9:59 am · Personal
Since I started my new job, I have been trying to manage my time better. I have a bad habit of putting things off till the last minute, and then spending an entire day working on things that I could have spread out a little better. So what was the solution to my time management issues?
Well so far, making lists of things for me to do has been working. I have a daily to do list with all the things I need to do every single day. For other tasks that I do day by day, I have a daily to do list for each day of the week.
So I might have five things I need to do every single day that is on my daily to do list, and everything else gets spread out on smaller to do lists for the days of the week.
So far it has been working out. The only hard part about it all is making myself stick with it, so I don’t have a boatload of work left for me at the end of the week.
