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Lauren was on the news
Lauren was on the (local, WXII 12) news: she was around #7 or 8 in line for an iPhone! She went to the AT&T store across from Thruway. For a little while, you can use WXII’s really poor web video interface to see her: select “news,” and then look for “iPhone a big hit in Triad.”
The iPhone does not work with OS 10.3. 
Update 7/1: Lauren was also quoted in the Winston-Salem Journal:
Lauren Pressley, a librarian at Wake Forest University, said she was looking forward to … Continue Reading
Presented on GTD with your 8125
Today at work I gave a presentation, “Getting Things Done with your 8125.” The 8125 is a Cingular cell phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0. I use Outlook for my GTD system because it can synchronize to the 8125, which I then carry around.
I didn’t realize how long it would take to describe what I’ve learned about GTD (and task management, and Outlook) in the year and a half I’ve been using GTD! I only covered next actions, task management, and the weekly review–and it took an hour and a half!
Set up drupal at work today
Today I set up drupal for work, for our internal “reporting” web site. I’ve never used drupal before, except when blogging for LOPSA.  Overall, I like it a lot! I set up some “books,” a “forum,” a (site-wide) blog, and some static “stories.”
Some of its guts are a little awkward, though; I had a hard time guessing whether the “anonymous users can post HTML” option was in the content area, the admin settings area, or under the user “roles.”
Sometimes I wonder whether to move the UUFWS site from Plone to something else, like Drupal. I think that … Continue Reading
links for 2007-06-26
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If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers
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Imagechan low bandwidth edition
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LJ Images
Neat social feed of all LiveJournal images. DANGER this is WHATEVER people are putting on Livejournal (ergo “nsfw” tag).
(tags: livejournal feed image images picture pictures nsfw random)
ITIL v3 Service Strategy
Yesterday I finished reading the first ITIL v3 book: Service Strategy. Well, really I read the first half and skimmed the last half.
In the ITIL v3 “life cycle,” Service Strategy is the hub of the “life cycle” wheel. It’s the core around which Service Design, Service Transition, and Service Operation rotate. (Continual Service Improvement then floats around fixing all the processes 
) Service Strategy focuses on the “value proposition” of IT: how does your IT department create value? In what market space do you operate? What’s your core competency?
The book is more theoretical … Continue Reading
Just finished categorizing my blog entries
I just finished categorizing all my entries, back to when I started blogging in 2003. My blog taxonomy is a little unwieldy, perhaps because I was making it up as I went along. Here they are, by category (please note one entry can be in multiple categories):
Technology: 199
Entertainment: 157
Politics: 100
Links: 53
Winston-Salem: 38
Self-Improvement: 32
Tweets: 21
Work: 18
Language: 17
Science: 17
Travel: 14
Writing: 8
ITSM: 6
Religion: 3
Some problems: “Technology” is such a large category as to be useless; and technically everything on here should be able to go under “Entertainment.”
I feel like I need a “re-balancing” algorithm, where if a category is more than N times … Continue Reading