I'm an avid user of Google Calender (I usually have a tab open on any computer, as well as syncing to my phone). I have 11 (yes, eleven!!) separate calendars. This might be a little overkill, but I have one for nearly every category I can think of: general things that I "share" with people who need to know my schedule, personal things, work, class schedule, assignments due, bills due, etc...
I love this method so much because I can focus on one calender if I need to, or view them all and get an overview of the whole week. Aside from that, each calender has default settings that can be changed to a variety of things. For example, any time I add something to my "class assignments" calender it automatically creates a couple of reminders, example, email me 3 days ahead of due date and email me the night before (just to make sure it's done :]).
Like I said, it might be a little overkill for some, but for those like me who thrive on visually seeing everything laid out and could use automatic email reminders, I find this method quite helpful.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Another Essay Thing AKA Promotion of Google Calender
Monday, March 28, 2011
So, I had to write an essay AKA Work-Life Balance
Monday, March 21, 2011
Win 7 Logon Screen (No Hack) AND Win 7 GodMode
More evidence of how much of a total nerd I am...
Tidbits of geekiness that has turned up today.
"Finally Microsoft has incorporated a new feature in ... Windows 7 which supports the end user to change the logon screen background without using any hacks or third-party tools."
How To Change Windows 7 Logon Screen Easily [Without Using Hacks & Tools]
"“GodMode” ... provides a single place to access all Windows settings without needing to browse options and folders in the Control Panel."
How to Enable Windows 7 GodMode
Friday, March 18, 2011
"Merging" Bookmarks from Separate Firefox Profiles
I recently found myself needing to move a few bookmarks from an old Firefox profile (on an old drive) to a new profile (on the current drive). I didn't want to replace the bookmarks in the new profile, only add to them; nor did I want all of the old bookmarks, only a few significant ones (for which I did not know the URL, nor were they easily Googleable).
Firefox 3+ has switched from storing bookmarks in a fairly easy to navigate html file to now storing them in the places.sqlite file. To manually browse through this file, I found that SQLite Manager works quite well.
I messed with this for a while and didn't have any luck actually extracting the URLs from the sqlite file. After working through a few other self-devised plans, nothing succeeded and I moved on to solving the problem rather than understanding why I was failing. I think what made this difficult was that I didn't want to lose what was, and didn't want all of the old, just to merge the two. Anyway...
Best solution:
I made a backup of the current bookmarks. Imported the last backup of the old bookmarks. Opened the pages I wanted in separate tabs (was only like 10ish). Restored the backup of the "current" bookmarks. Proceeded to bookmark all open tabs and then reorganize as needed.
Solved. ^.^
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
New Step in Life
Well, I put in my two week notice today...
"Do you have a job lined up?" No.
"Isn't that a bad idea?" Er, well... it depends on who you are, your particular situation, and what you want out of life.
I have no guaranteed plan in place... But I have plans, if that makes it better?
I'll get three more paychecks between now and when... well, when I don't.
I'm going to minimize my spending, bills, etc.
Place more focus on finishing my final classes on high notes.
I'm going to put quite a bit of effort (almost job like) toward selling (eBay, Craigslist, Etsy, classifieds, ...) as much of my stuff as I can - a) to make money b) I need to get rid of a lot of junk (aka valuable possessions to someone else) and c) so I have less to move in a couple months.
Going to try working through what I want to be when I grow up. Or maybe more of how I want to earn a living between now and growing up. I've decided that I definitely want to enjoy what I do. I've known that, but I'm realizing how important I think it is in my life. I'm not sure what that means for me yet, but I'd rather live a life where I need less money than needing to play corporate politics to make what I need for how I live. I suppose that's nearly as much mindset as occupation, but none-the-less, I want to do work that I want to do.
I'll spend some time wedding planning.
And as soon as we know where we're going (or not going), I'll start doing what is necessary for us to go in that direction.
So, no, I don't have a "job" lined up, but I do have some life lined up that needs to be worked on. And anyway, I'm just getting a 7 week, or so, jump on my already impending unemployment, upcoming with graduation.
New step; next step; life's a journey...