How to plan your todos when there’s just too many of them…

Sound familiar? You’re working hard, managing multiple todo lists, checking your notes from your wiki/blog/cms/ when all of a sudden, you’re finding that nothing get done anymore, or at an absurdly slow pace. I’ve found a little trick lately that’s helped me get more done, as it tells me where to focus my efforts, in…

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Changed my blog’s URL and RSS feeds

I’ve decided to change my blog’s URL to http://blog.arseneault.ca. Since my arseneault.ca domain hosts all sort of personal projects, this will make it easier for me on the management side, since I can simply update a subdomain’s mapping as I shuffle directories around on my hosted server. Thanks for changing your URL feeds accordingly… RSS…

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Recommending the Presentation Zen blog

I’ve been reading the Presentation Zen blog for a few weeks now and find the content very refreshing, especially as I used to build so many Powerpoint slides and still enjoy presenting our technologies from time to time to larger audiences. Now, I know the next PPT presentation I build will be totally different, look…

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Been trying to study all week-end…

Well, it’s been one of those week-ends where there just never was some time to stop, pick up the (Red)books and study a little. Didn’t help that my wife was away for her xmas staff party for two days, that I had both kids to entertain/take care of, and that house chores don’t take care…

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Analog books

I love the book analogy… this was too good not to share. And in pure Slashdot style, no, I haven’t RTFA (that’s Read The F%^$# Article. Kylar writes « When you have spare time and decide to do something with a book (That’s like an analog webpage, for the neuronauts among us), how often do you…

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IBM and podcasting

From ZDNet News: IBM is jumping into the podcast stream by creating Internet radio shows on technology trends and encouraging its employees to create their own podcasts. The move comes less than six months after the company launched an initiative to encourage its more than 300,000 employees to write blogs… The most recent podcast, « IBM…

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8 weeks to go for 2005

With only 8 weeks to go to 4Q and 2005, it’s time to work on those remaining todos that I’ve been procrastinating for the last few months. Some of the items, like product certification and cleaning up my team’s knowledge base on WebSphere should prove quite entertaining as I stare at the deadline… When you’ve…

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Mapping your career

This is one of the reasons why I have this blog: so that I can keep a record of those ideas and thoughts that I believe I should really keep for later (re-)work. This morning, sipping my (homemade) cafe au lait (or cafe creme, if you’re from France), I was thinking of the choices we…

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