Tag Archives: Work
Getting Things Done for Outlook — The anthonyjhicks.com System
Posted on 18. Feb, 2008
Here's my system for Getting Things Done using your Inbox in Outlook:
- Print the image above on a colour printer, cut it down to card size and stick it to your monitor.
- Group your Inbox by Flag Status and sort by Header Status so the Red flag appears at the top.
- Set your default flag to Blue.
- Use your Inbox from the bottom, knock over the > 2 minute tasks straightaway.
- Prioritise the rest using the appropriate flags.
- Use Reference sparingly. I usually keep Low Priority and Reference collapsed in the Inbox view.
- Email tasks to yourself that don't arrive as an actionable email from someone else.
Schluss mit Lustig
Posted on 09. Dec, 2002
Advocating a return to rigid no fun workplaces: 'Der Spiegel magazine called her "Germany's toughest woman boss" last week while other publications identified her as leading a "counter-revolution" in the workplace by championing a return to traditional German values of discipline, hard work and rigid punctuality.' ... 'Miss Mair, the daughter of a university professor, argues that her rediscovery of the puritan approach to business is one of the main reasons why her Mair and Others agency has survived.'
http://www.smh.com.au/...
British men turn to Botox to keep jobs
Posted on 08. Nov, 2002
Interesting: "Worried British men are increasingly using wrinkle-reducing Botox injections to hide signs of ageing which they fear will be a handicap in the jobs market."
This Botox is impressive stuff, I haven't used it myself, but I a friend had it injected into her forehead and it numbs all the muscles, eliminating worry lines. We thought she was faking it, but no matter what she did to try and wrinkle her forehead, it stayed smooth. I dunno what's in this stuff that makes a very specific region of muscles stay numb for a number of weeks, but you'd want to be careful injecting it your the face. You wouldn't want to have a crooked smile for next couple of months until the Botox wore off again.
http://www.smh.com.au/...
Man of Leisure
Posted on 16. Sep, 2002
Ah well, end of era, I finished up at Dimension Data on Friday after 5 years and 10 months there. A bloody long time by IT industry standards. Very happy to be moving on, although I don't think it has quite sunk in yet. Looking forward to having at the very least eight weeks off to focus on uni this semester and then I'll see what's out there contracting wise. Post-mortem essay will follow in the next few days.
Is contract work a good career move?
Posted on 19. Aug, 2002
An incredibly basic un-insightful article, but I thought it was well timed and deserved a link :)
http://www.zdnet.com.au/...
Workplace disagreements
Posted on 07. Jun, 2002
Interesting:
The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing
Posted on 26. May, 2002
Good software interviewing read from Joel on software. [via Rebelutionary
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/...
Hang On To Your Head When The Head-hunter Calls
Posted on 17. Apr, 2002
http://australia.internet.com/...
Lifetime Piling Up
Posted on 04. Apr, 2002
Approximately 100,000 hours of working time in your life. Hmm.. if I billed $250 per hour, I'd make only $25mil..
http://australia.internet.com/...
Power napping
Posted on 01. Apr, 2002
I am all for this, I feel like shit by about 2:30PM in the afternoon and spend the next couple of hours struggling, this is the answer: "Studies have shown that performance increases by 35% if employees take a 45-minute 'power nap' in the afternoon." [via Hear Ye!]
http://www.ananova.com/...
Five years with Dimension Data (Com Tech) today
Posted on 19. Nov, 2001
A long time to be with the same IT company, however I've watched the company change from a 250 person company to a 1,400 person company and then become part of a 11,000 worldwide company. I've also watched my group (Online) grow from a dozen to around 300 nationally and then shrink to about 140. It has definitely been an interesting time working for a busy software development group through the peak of the dot-com era. As much as I may have liked to work for a startup during that time, it has been fun working for a very financially stable company that allowed a great deal of freedom to pursue technologies that interested me. The last five years have been great!
http://www.didata.com.au/...
New project starts Monday
Posted on 08. Aug, 2001
I start an exciting and very challenging project next week that will run until the end of the year and probably beyond. Unfortunately I can't talk about it, at all. The project itself will use a mixture of new and established design patterns, in a wholly J2EE environment. Should be a great experience, I'm really looking forward to getting my teeth into it and working with such a diverse and talented team of application architects, developers, project managers and stakeholders.
Peter’s of Kensington
Posted on 20. Dec, 2000
We launched another pure B2C web site this week for one of our bricks-and-mortar clients (hehe), Peter's of Kensington. I wasn't involved in this project either, but I'm posting the link as I think the site is pretty neat. Peter's have a solid business established over 22 years, I'm sure they'll do very well out of their web site too.
http://www.petersofkensington.com.au/...
Nutrimetics
Posted on 20. Dec, 2000
I wasn't involved in this project, but I thought I'd post a link to the new Nutrimetics site we finished and launched last week. Have a look.
http://www.nutrimetics.com.au/...
New FOXTEL Web Site Launched!
Posted on 01. Dec, 2000
The web site I've (we've) been working on for the past few months went live this morning. It's completely built using a variety of flavours of server-side Java including a very neat custom-built scheduled Content Manangement System that snapshots and rotates content daily. There's also a five million record database behind the scenes running the Program Guides and Get FOXTEL sections. Check it out.
http://www.foxtel.com.au/...
Forum X
Posted on 11. Nov, 2000
The company I work for here in Australia runs an exclusive annual conference for our clients called Forum. Rather than participating in the plethora of multi-company conferences that run during the year, we hire out the exclusive Hyatt Cooluum on the Gold Coast, charter several Qantas jets and fly about 700 delegates up for three days of intense indepth presentations covering a broad range of technical and business issues. Forum attracts a broad range of key decision makers and technical leaders from some of Australia's best companies. We don't just talk about the technology though, we also ship up semi-trailer loads of the latest gear and set it up to showcase the technologies we're working with across all lines of our business.
It's quite an interesting event as competing vendors are well represented and do everything they can to out do each other in front of their best customers. For example, last year Cisco managed to secure the golf course at the resort, possibly one of the nicest in the area for an exclusive golf tournament with their invited guests. Not to be out done, Nortel immediately hired three helicopters, landed them right near the tee off where the Cisco group were playing and flew their guests to a golf course aparently only 45 minutes drive away.
Unfortunately, I had to pull out of Forum at the last minute this year due to my project deadline and here I am sitting in the office on a Saturday morning coding. Oh well.
http://coolum.hyatt.com/...
Posh Pots World
Posted on 27. Aug, 2000
This is a site my company recently finished, I don't usually highlight work projects on my weblog but I quite liked the design of this one, very clean.
http://www.poshpots.com.au/...
One of my projects wins two awards
Posted on 06. Mar, 2000
A large chunk of my time over the last 24 months has been dedicated to developing web based software to manage construction projects. It's great to get some recognition for our work on such an interesting and challenging project.
http://online.comtech.com.au/...
A Com Tech office in Costa Rica?
Posted on 19. Oct, 1999
Not quite, they're called ComTEK.
http://www.comtek.co.cr/...
