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posted at 12:49:19 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Motivation

Hah! Bet you didn't see that one coming eh? Yes, I am about to link the US Election to the topic of this blog - how genius am I?!

Firstly, before I begin my "mashup" of politics and lifehacking I'd like to give a big round of applause to all that voted for - who I personally feel - the best candiate we could have hoped for in terms of impact on not only America, but the world as well.

Plus I'd like to applaude everyone that voted in general. Exercising our democratic right to vote is something we often take for granted (although not so much in the UK as we haven't been given the right to vote in a General Election since 2005 the current guy just inherited his post and we therefore haven't voted in the schmuck "democratic" leader of of our country).

I do have to find it slightly amusing that the result of the US Election - which some pundits are already calling the biggest change to politics ever (er, I think that may be the voting system in general, no?) - was announced on the day that in theory could have changed the course of modern politics (including those of the States) forever. Yes, today is the day that poor old Guy Fawkes gets tossed on the bonfire - we omit the hanging, drawing and quartering bit as there are....

posted at 22:18:48 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Site News

No, not the fact that I've managed to keep my mouth shut for almost a whole month - although that's got to be a record!

Yes, I've redesigned the site yet again! RSS Readers, eel free to pop along and see the new look site!

I've completely reworked everything from the ground up and fixed a fair few bugs - most noticeably with the search and comments but a few more may have crept in so if you notice anything please leave a comment or contact me - it'd be most appreciated!

I've just finished three rather large projects at work which also another major reason why I've been rather quite (three 50+ hour weeks - the 4 hour work week still doesn't work in my opinion!) which is down to work load rather than bad time management - honest!

So, I've had a few requests to review things (a book and some online services) and an interesting email from Dave Crenshaw - author of the "Myth of Multitasking" - all of which you have to look ....

posted at 15:43:04 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In GTD/Productivity

I've recently started reading the Four Hour Work Week* (hereafter 4HWW to stop me getting RSI) by Tim Ferris and, even though I'm only on page 97 I'm already a bit annoyed by this book.

In the chapter I'm currently on, Ferris talks about regaining time by only checking email and voicemail at designated times of the day such as 12pm and 4pm - and he stresses not to check email first thing in the morning. Doing so will save you x amount of time per day - but would this actually work in the Real World? I can't see how it could.

Now, I don't know if it's the type of job that I'm in that's leading me to the conclusion I've come to, or the fact that

posted at 15:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Email

I've written before about the need to be careful about what you send in an email at work but the story that I've seen in several UK national newspapers over the past couple of days really takes the biscuit.

Paul Eley sent what sounds like a harmless email around his workplace asking for a new flatmate. Nothing wrong with that in itself - until you realise that he only sent it to female colleagues and that the content of the email was, shall we say, inappropriate at best:

posted at 08:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Review

I was lucky enough to be contacted recently by the folks at Wiley Publishing asking me if I'd like a free review copy of of "The Myth Of Multitasking: How 'doing it all' gets nothing done" by Dave Crenshaw. Well, you know me and free stuff so I jumped at the chance.

I'd seen a few interviews with Dave Crenshaw and reviews of the book but tried not to take too much notice of them as I wanted to form my own opinion of the book so when I picked it up I didn't really know what to expect.

And I have to say I was really impressed with what I read, it certainly changes whole management book genre for the better. Unlike the usual dry style "informational" style of most management books, Crenshaw gets his points across in narrative format which is a refreshing change.

The book centres around "Phil", a time management/productivity consultant; "He....

posted at 08:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Rants

<start rant>
I've started to become a little annoyed with the sort of information tracking that Google and Facebook seem to be doing at the moment.

Okay, I know by using their products and services I've agreed to whatever terms and conditions the decided to have at the time but it's beginning to irritate me that they want to know everything about me - and appear to know everything about me.

Take this recent Facebook ad that keeps getting chucked in my face.

posted at 08:00:00 By Flipping Heck!

Posted In Review

I was contacted by DocStoc recently asking me to take a look at a new piece of software they've released called DocStoc Sync. I've written before about DocStoc but if you're not familiar with their service, its essentially an online document storage site that allows you to upload documents and store them publically or privately You can also embed documents in webpages as you can with YouTube videos, which is excellent for showing presentations.


Anyway, on to DocStoc Sync. You simply download the program (which works for Mac or PC) and you can set it to watch specific folders or manually add files to your DocStoc account.

This will be really handy for people who are remotely working on projects with others, or if you use different computers in different locations. I know there are tools out there that are similar such as BaseCamp but these are actually quite bad at document management.

I have t....

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