Week ending September 19, 2010
Posted: - Modified: | weeklyFrom last week's plans
- Work
- [-] Support Classroom to Client: Collect lessons learned and create new material – People are busy
- [-] Build Connections Toolkit: Make GUI – Decided against Java GUI. Will just build everything into Sametime plugin. Need to set up environment.
- [X] Organize Idea Labs: Update invitation template
- [X] Build career: Prototype Drupal site and learn about new practices along the way
- [X] Build career: Mentor people
- Build career: Also talked to my manager about his idea for a very interesting role
- Build Connections Toolkit: Create arbitrary blog feed exporter
- Build Connections Toolkit: Was interviewed by Bruce and Julian (along with Luis Benitez) regarding Lotus Connections for the Taking Notes podcast
- Innovation Discovery: Created and populated Activity for upcoming Smarter Cities event (Jason Wild)
- Picked up "Collaboration Evangelist" as a cool title from @trondareutle
- Relationships
- [X] Plan wedding: Plan BBQ
- [X] Plan wedding: Make checklist and timeline for next two weeks
- Had a facial
- Learned more about rhetoric =)
- Life
- [X] Improve productivity: File inbox items from my Org file
Plans for next week
- Work
- [ ] Support Classroom to Client: Collect lessons learned and revise material
- [ ] Build Connections Toolkit: Add export to plugin
- [ ] Build Connections Toolkit: Track down a couple of bugs
- [ ] Organize Idea Labs: Finalize invitation for E.S. Idea Lab
- [ ] Build career: Co-present "Leading Innovation" at Showcase Ontario
- Relationships
- [ ] Plan wedding: Consider fixing front garden
- [ ] Plan wedding: Clear stuff to throw / donate
- [ ] Plan wedding: Confirm all travel details
- Life
- [ ] Improve productivity: Apply rhetorical principles to blogging
Elsewhere on the Net:
- Review: The Checklist Manifesto (Sun, Sep 19, 2010)
- How to change Data Execution Prevention (DEP) settings in Windows 7? (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: @researchgoddess *boggle* Watch the Ikea kitty ad instead. It'll make you feel better. =) (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: Love how W responds to interpersonal conflict by learning more about rhetoric through books, Internet, and conversations. _So_ marrying him! (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: @david_hay @hex_cargo E2.0 is how I plug into the brains of many, many people smarter than I am. =) (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort After all, we've already put the work into it, so we might as well make it more searchable. (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: @gilsaints88 @blm849 I decided to bike home anyway. The skirt had two layers and it was still warm out, so I wasn't too worried. =) (Sat, Sep 18, 2010)
- sachac: Oh dear, restroom's closed. I'll have to bike home in my office clothes instead of changing into bikewear. What would Superman do? (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort How about I make up for smackdown by mostly de-umming podcast? ;) http://j.mp/aybTw3 Six minutes shaved off. Transcript to follow. (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @BilalJaffery Organizational memory and collaboration software for connectedness. (Extra myelin, thanks!) @roonoid @creckling @lbenitez (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @roonoid @creckling @lbenitez Unless you're referring to, say, obsolete procedures and tools we do want people to forget. =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @roonoid @creckling @lbenitez But that's part of who we are and helps us shape how we're going to do things (or not) in the future. =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- The $3 iPad (or Other Tablet) Wall Mount [Clever Uses] (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: Awwww, the @torontolibrary stocks @rawn's awesome book "Social Networking for Business". Yay IBMer! =D (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @kittenthebad Fascinating! Liz Wiseman came out with a book called "Multipliers: how the best leaders make everyone smarter". (2010) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @counti8 Awww. =) @remarkk Don't think of your blog. Take notes while you make things happen, and then post notes that might help others. (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @trondareutle I like "collaboration evangelist" more than "tech evangelist" or "Enterprise 2.0 evangelist". Thanks for the idea! =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @trondareutle Enterprise 2.0 evangelist on IBM card. Tech evangelist, storyteller, geek on my extra card and on my internal/external blogs (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @jrobichaux I've been thinking about adding "toolsmith" to that, possibly replacing/clarifying "geek". =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @jrobichaux Thanks for nsftools! =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: Evangelizing Lotus Connections with @lbenitez, @belgort, @jrobichaux and me 37:35 http://planetlotus.org/743e12 #lotusconnections #ibm (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- Nil by mouth – Roger Ebert's Journal (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort Have a nap. You deserve it. =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: #FF Lotus geeks: @lbenitez @belgort @jrobichaux @notessensei @alanlepo =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort Yes! And @jrobichaux too! =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @lbenitez I should develop a radio voice too! (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @kittenthebad Exponential value for the win. =) (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: Had tons of fun recording Taking Notes podcast with @belgort and @lbenitez =) @curiousmitch You'll like it! (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- Puño’s TEDx Madrid Sketchboards (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort Just sent you background for podcast tomorrow, in case you find that useful for asking questions and exploring conversation threads (Fri, Sep 17, 2010)
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg shows how feminism is done. Again. – By Dahlia Lithwick – Slate Magazine (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- sachac: Like @kittenthebad's take on dealing with difficult people, being dispensable: http://catehuston.com/blog/2010/09/14/being-dispensable . =) (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- All Us Christensens: Sweet nothings (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- sachac: @kittenthebad Thanks for sharing it with others! Getting better at realizing what I'm not hearing or reading. (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- sachac: Toronto Startup Wknd Sept 24-26: @leilaboujnane and other cool speakers. toronto.startupweekend.org Not going, but looks like fun! (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- One Life Japan: Experience the Japan Countryside by Bike and Foot (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- The Diarists' Art (Thu, Sep 16, 2010)
- Sweet nothings (Wed, Sep 15, 2010)
- findutils – GNU Project – Free Software Foundation (FSF) (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- Being Dispensable (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: @twitteratti It's fun watching geeks of different persuasions. (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: @BilalJaffery My sister cooks by feel. She makes awesome stuff, but you have to enjoy it then, as it's probably never going to happen again. (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 I lack the experience to make up for a lack of intuition, so I have to follow the craft approach for now. =) (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: @trajano @gilsaints88 Tried disabling all the firewalls. Still no joy. Oh well! Will put XAMPP on the XP comp instead, as I can access it. (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: Okay. @gabrielmansour @lindaristevski and other awesome people. Snakes and Lattes. Friday? Help me keep sane during wedding planning. =) (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 There's an interesting distinction between people who enjoy cooking with recipes and people who cook without them. (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- Blog U.: Naming Assumptions – University of Venus – Inside Higher Ed (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- “You just need to get started” is bad advice (Tue, Sep 14, 2010)
- Removing [nid:n] in nodereference autocomplete – Stack Overflow (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- sachac: @belgort @lbenitez I'm sachachua83, and I'm in EDT. (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- sachac: Grr, can ping Linux -> XP, Linux -> Win 7, and Win 7 -> Win XP, but can't ping Win XP -> Linux. #fb (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- Creating a Compound Field Module for CCK in Drupal 6.x | Poplar ProductivityWare |(Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- sachac: @lbenitez @belgort Sure, sounds good. Sep 17? (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- sachac: So happy. =) People ask, "Where's the wiki so we can share files?" (They mean Activities.) I think it's starting to become expected. (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- Baumkuchen (Mon, Sep 13, 2010)
- Barbecue on a Budget: Throw a Cook-Out for 20 for Under $120 | TradingMarkets.com (Sun, Sep 12, 2010)
- sachac: @hypatiadotca Happy to drop them off at the HackLab open house if Tuesday's not rainy. =) With jam, too, for toast and stuff! (Sat, Sep 11, 2010)
- sachac: #FF @lindaristevski @ian_g @blm849 @skemsley @taniasam @hypatiadotca @hilarity_ensues @accordionguy @ianirving and other friends in Toronto (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @mikesansone Thanks for the #FF! =) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @hypatiadotca All win belong to you. =) Have you decided re location? Want jalapeno peppers? Our garden overfloweth, but not enough to can. (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- IKEA Lets 100 Cats Loose in Store – TIME NewsFeed (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- Ikea Happy Inside Cats Video (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 Oh, absolutely. =) Lies, damned lies, and statistics, and all that. ;) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: Ikea cat ad makes me feel happy inside: http://vodpod.com/watch/4408918-ikea-happy-inside-cats (more home-like than cookies baking in oven) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- 8 recommended books on visual thinking (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- For every site a make file (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @lbenitez Good luck! I think the #ibmexperience is awesome. =) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @jamiemcquay Congratulations! May you have many more anniversaries to come. =) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: City of Toronto has sense of humour, yay. =) E-waste: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/09/city-of-torontos-e-w.html (pity about backslash) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @debh2u Thanks for the #FF, and for sharing those slides with your friends! =) (Fri, Sep 10, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 But it's so fun exposing people's actual behavior using statistics, like the post you linked to… ;) My, what a datastore. (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- sachac: @kittenthebad Sometime, when life settles down a bit for both of us. =) The good thing about happiness is that it's a timeless topic. (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- The Joy of Less (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- sachac: @kittenthebad Doing awesome! Attended virtual networking thing for IBM remote employees yesterday, had fun, wrote up notes. Posting soon. =) (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 Fascinating! I'm always up for statistical analyses and models of communication. See also: okcupid blog. (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: How To Tell Who Is Influencing Whom in a Group Discussion (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- sachac: @blm849 Or a cat with pointy bits. =) (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- Are You Saving Too Much? (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- Spigit Offers Release S3 to a Maturing Market (Thu, Sep 9, 2010)
- Getting a job: Is there a motherhood penalty? (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- ChessBase.com – Chess News – Male chess players show elevated aggressiveness against women (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- sachac: @allanschoenberg We need fewer rockstars (http://j.mp/b5yjbg) and more humans. ;) Thanks for the rec, @jgombita! (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- sachac: Accidentally in Code » 10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme Blue: http://disq.us/m6akl (@kittenthebad) (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- Accidentally in Code » 10 Things I Learned About Presenting in Extreme Blue (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- Blog:Tomas Roggero » Blog Archive » Lifestream Documentation and Debugging(Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- sachac: @MarcinMokaPhoto Hello to you too! =) (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- Teach a Kid to Argue – Figures of Speech (Wed, Sep 8, 2010)
- sachac: @heidigoseek I find I can't stand listening to nonfiction – reading is so much faster. Fiction, though, when read really well… Awesome! (Tue, Sep 7, 2010)
- sachac: @heidigoseek We regularly raid the library for audiobooks, movies, and magazines… =) Yay libraries! (Tue, Sep 7, 2010)
- sachac: @heidigoseek We're big fans of the Bartimaeus trilogy, read by Nathaniel Parker. =) (Tue, Sep 7, 2010)
- The Philippine Traditional Costumes (Tue, Sep 7, 2010)
- FILIPINO GIRL PAPER DOLL CARD TOPPER SET OF 2 by kirakirahoshi (Tue, Sep 7, 2010)
- Why Is Knowledge Sharing Important? A Matter of Survival (Mon, Sep 6, 2010)
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