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5月26日 After the match!!What a day. This morning at 9am Amanzi did her grade 3 violin exam (getting an 'A') As a treat we then all sat thru 3 brilliant hours of Pirates of the Caribbean. Then this evening went to support the wallabies playing Wales at Telstra stadium. Here's Amanzi at the end of this incredibly long day. R42 5月17日 ProcrastinationWhat do you use to prioritise your tasks? A diary, spiral bound notebook, your PDA, Outlook?
Do you have a strict prioritisation methodology? Or do you find that you're always doing things after the fact, late, to find that you leave a stream of upset colleagues, family, clients, and worse, fee charging insitutions.
Our behaviour is a great indicator of two motivations in life. To accomplish something, it needs to be important to us, and we need to believe we can do it (competence & confidence). If it's important, but we don't have confidence, we panic. If we're not confident, and it's not important, we avoid doing it altogether. If we are confident, but don't think it's important, we defer the task.
My experience is that deadlines aren't a particularly good source of determining importance. Maybe some are, exams for example, but in the main, with the exponentially increasing number of priorities in life, things we deem as not as important as others, get continually dropped to the bottom of the list, and end up being deferred. This is an expensive practice - I'm constantly paying late charges, interest charges, and penalty increases.
Which is why yesterday I had to pop into the RTA before work to renew my drivers licence, 2 days late.
My primary modus operandi, is relational, not task oriented. Hence the lack of importance a list of red tasks has in my day. I will always prioritise catching up with someone, listening to someone, and spending time actually working with people, over doing administrative tasks. It seems the conclusion I'm coming to is that I need to surround myself with task oriented people, get them talking, and be inspired to get things done.
Anyway, I have a month old speeding ticket to pay.....
R42 5月15日 MEDCI spent the day at the Australian edition of the MEDC (Mobile and Embedded Computing) Conference. It was a day resplendant with geeks, in all their glory. There were all the latest gadgets currently on offer, alongside a plethora of circuit boards just waiting for embedded Windows, and a robot to control.
There is a lot happening in mobility, especially in Australia, and especially in Windows Mobile.
Things to look for - Win Mobile 6 devices, couple that with Live Mail Mobile (and Custom Domains), 3G and VOIP. and that's not talking about Home Server, digital connected photoframes or embedded controllers managing your house (over the Net)
The question is: "Does the average person have the discipline to benefit from the advantages of the always on society, without it controlling their life?"
We're giving all the tools, and information, and access, and productivity increasing capability to everyone in an ever increasing frequency. But most people just don't know how to benefit from that without being overwhelmed. Still, it is cool
 R42 5月12日 Done and, well, dusted...So I delivered the presentation to the MCSI Forum today on “Integrating Faith, Family, Clients, and Technology” I really enjoyed the session, probably missed a couple of things, and was arguably not as prepared as I could’ve (should’ve?) been. I did get a couple of laughs, which is always good, especially from a potentially cynical technical crowd. The truth is, they’ve all seen a million presentations before, and it takes something special to get people’s attention. Something more to WOW them!! The audience were great though, and the panel discussion at the end certainly caused some dicsussion. It was also the first time presenting from my new laptop – very sweet. I love the automatic configuration that Vista does when you plug an external monitor in. Anywhoo – glad it’s done. Averaging 3.5 hours sleep a night is probably not too healthy. KtF R42 5月8日 My Favourite ApplicationUntil recently, my favourite application, certainly based on usage, was Outlook. Well, Outlook combined with my PocketPC. After some 20 years in the industry, there simply isnt't another integrated email, calendar, task, and contact application that comes close to Outlook. Now of course with OWA (Outlook Web Access) and Small Business Server, I can access both my home and work email anywhere in a very rich and robust manner.
Just on a year ago, I discovered OneNote, and for some time that has reigned supreme. I've never been a paper person, and the abilty to capture notes as in a paper notebook, but organise them, search across them, and share them, very unlike a paper notebook, won me over. Finally Outlook's domination in my technical musings was overthrown. OneNote had won my heart. I found myself using it for work and personal notes, sharing these with relevant people in those various sphere's in my life. Using the application for video storyboarding, studying and research, and even my daily management tasks.
But then in the last couple of months, some of the consultants in my team convinced me to fire up Groove 2007, and once again I find software that just simply enables me. So many areas of my life - worship, professional speaking, confidential work collaboration. Groove allows me to collaborate with work colleagues, clients, and personal colleagues - through firewalls, without needing VPN's or special security features, without a dedicated web server, even without being always online.
A Groove workspace has a collaborative calendar, discussion forum, chat client, file storage space, issues log, and a host of other tools, right out of the box. It is simple to setup a workspace, and the ability to invite people outside your domain (company, family, church etc) without needing special login rights is fantastic. It really allows you to work as you do work, across boundaries. It integrates into communicator. And the finale is the ability to work on a document on a disconnected computer. As soon as you connect again, the file synchonises, immediately, with all the other users in the workspace. No need to email, no need to maintain multiple copies for version control, no need to keep checking with a central server, and checking documents in or out. Just all work on the document in your own time, at your own location.
Brilliant!! Like Beer in a bottle!!
My favourite enabling application. Check it out!!
R42 5月6日 Leading WorshipLed worship again this morning - and had a great time.
Highlights include one of my current favourites "How Great is our God" and one of the other worship leaders, Matt Johnston, leading into Communion with a song off of his recent worship album.
Finished up with a more traditional "Blessed Assurance," and was encouraged by the enthusiasm from the congregation.
This is my story, this is my song
Praising my Saviour all the day long!
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5月5日 Wow - MAY!!!!May - it's already May!! I can't believe it, and have been terribly remiss on my blog. Aiming to change that.
Next week (Saturday 12) I'll be talking at the HomeChristian IT - Connecting Gospel, Life and IT Seminar along with my great friend Andrew McCoy. We'll be presenting on Integrating Faith, Family, Clients and IT....
This morning we used what is brilliant, although has become commonplace, technology - the Internet, Skype, Messenger, OneNote and Groove to start planning our talk. What a great world and time we live in.
Watch this space to see how the talk progresses....
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