Archive for February, 2007
My fair lady
February 20th, 2007 theatre
There is nothing like watching in on stage. I really got the story that night. I said once that this is the ultimate Cinderella story but the whole point of Cinderella is that she wanted to go to a ball and with some help she made it there. In Pygmalion, the story is that Eliza Doolittle asked to better herself by donning on a different speech (plus dress and diamonds). The twist in Pygmalion is that Henry Higgins success was not when he made her into a version of ‘better’ because she became completely useless, fit only for marriage – she could not fit into her old flower selling self – but when Eliza decided she would support herself sans Higgins by teaching the science of speech.
Performance wise, I think it was fairly hum-drum, not hitting the laughs and the big applauses at key moments. I hardly think it was that everyone had seen it. There is a lack of excitement in the performance although the audience clapped through three curtain calls.
Link on youtube: Michael Crawford and Julie Andrews performing I’ve grown accustomed to her face
Elsewhere
February 16th, 2007 books
Tidbit: Wodehouse was in Hongkong Shanghai Bank for 2 years. He was pretty ordinary at his job, but he was such an alright chap they were going to offer him a branch manager job but he was making enough money at writing to be able to quit.
I was disappointed when the season ended for the good doctor. There is a show Heroes on the cable channel StarWorld. I simply love it! The wiki for this show is fantastic!
Wireless headsets
February 13th, 2007 atwork
Eventhough I am no longer a phone agent, contact center habits are hard to kick. I hate voicemail because it’s an outbound effort that sometimes gets me no-where. (”Hi, it’s Eileen returning your voicemail.”) I’d rather be available when the call comes through. 2 months ago, I plugged in a bluetooth GN Netcom 6110 and haven’t looked back since. I pace when thinking and this device lets me pace, pick up papers, draw things on the white board. It’s also suppose to work with any bluetooth phone but so far it hasn’t but that’s okay.
One thing it doesn’t do is answer calls. That’s why I’m thinking of a handset lifter. I’m too lazy to try to reach for the answer button. This headset and handset lifter looks very good.
I agree with this guy who sells headsets: more people should find out how wonderful is a wireless headsets.
Latin Phrases
February 11th, 2007 Uncategorized
Abigail’s Big Table of Useful Latin Phrases
Gens Martiana Table of Latin Phrases
More GTD – Monkey GTD System for Email Filing
February 11th, 2007 atwork
I’m terrifically pleased with myself. I tweaked MonkeyGTD and easily turned it into a filing cabinate. Because of it uses a lot of tags, it allows me to relate two issues together for reference. Eg, Insane Requests will show up Insane Requests for Project 1, 2,…nth;or, all insane requests by Dept 1, 2…nth etc. I can also classify these emails under broad categories of my job objective. And, there is no confusion between my usual GTD tool because this isn’t a GTD anymore. Sweet! Theoretically speaking, the time spend to read emails can be used to classify these items when you have the area and context list printed out. All I need to do now is to put it to the test.
If you are interested:
Areas:the headers from my job objective.
Projects: Headlines/Subject Lines in reference to the work being done.
Context: department corresponding with me (if it is external). If it relates to internal matters, then, the context is the part of the business for which I’m in charge.
Getting Things Done – Personal Wikis
February 10th, 2007 atwork
I have lately been asked if I was stressed – that’s why the protracted cold. (I am not, it’s only a really bad cold.) It has been busier but not more stressful. I don’t agree with the concept of positive stress. I think a best state of mind is to hum along nicely and because the GTD system pushes anxiety from the mind, it allows one to complete the task one at a time. Management books like Blue Ocean and 90 days have been filtered downwards through my organisation, I am surprised GTD isn’t. Everyone has their own way of GTD – some keep a tasks list, run a project manager, or write it on a piece of note paper. The system of GTD is only a minor change from what most of us have been using all the time. I’m surprised it’s such a well kept secret – at least, nobody that I know uses this system. I’m not consistent, however. When work gets back into control, I stop using GTD and then it spirals out of control and I’m back into GTD.
Some time ago, I blogged about a personalwiki called TiddlyWiki. There is also a GTD TiddlyWiki that looks super found here (you can just right click and save it) and an alpha version of an update monkeygtd here. I am thinking that this would be great for filing off email discussions but I’m not keen on having another GTD tool when I’m comfortable with the sheet that I have modified. There is also the Yet Another TiddlyWiki Adaptation that looks cool and has all the plug-ins that I need but doesn’t have the automatic check box tagging that is in monkey GTD. I think a bit of mucking around with monkey GTD would get me to what I want.
Her Royal Highness Eileen the Idle of London by the Bow
February 9th, 2007 Uncategorized
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If you have caught a cold
February 9th, 2007 Uncategorized
Grrrr….
February 7th, 2007 Uncategorized
Today, croaking into the telephone with one of the phone engineers about a piece of programming and a customer complaint, I heard the chap warbled very quickly in between a string of take care and what-nots, Thanks man.
I’ve already hung up. The next time I meet him, it’s either no bra or a dress so low cut a dwarf can see my navel! He’s going to be so bloody embarrassed how not a man I am.
I AM NOT A MAN! I am only having a cold!
