http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog The finest blog without a tagline. Tue, 24 Jan 2006 04:23:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well – I’m still not dead. I’ve had an extremely busy couple of months – exams, holiday, Christmas – but things are settling back into a routine. I’ve just started a new job, working as the information manager for Krome Studios, and it’s providing me with much food for thought. Unlike ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2006/01/24/115/ Got an old Fil-o-Dax or Day-Timer that you don’t use? Like the idea, but never found the right way to make use of one? Worry no more – D*I*Y Planner has a range of free PDF templates so you can create your own planner inserts, sized to fit filofaxes, daytimers, bigger, ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/10/22/114/ I’ve always struggled with to-do lists. I’m great at writing them, laying them out, prettying them up. I’m really, really bad at actually crossing anything off them. This is for a number of reasons to do with my psychology and personal issues that we don’t need to go into here, but what ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/10/21/113/ I’ve been looking into GTD and other related productivity theories of late; they appeal to the crunchy-process-oriented geek in me. There’s been a lot of GTD-related talk in the sections of the blogosphere I find most appealing, too, which is where I stumbled across it in the first place. I’m not ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/10/17/112/ One thing I’m finding really annoying is the existence of sites with no RSS feeds. On personal and/or largely static sites, that’s forgiveable, but on sites where the bulk of information is dynamic or frequently updated? Especially if the site is blog-esque? It’s seriously irritating. Ignoring RSS feeds is ridiculously ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/10/08/110/ The main motivator for my upgrade to WP1.5 was the amount of comment spam I’ve been getting lately. Hundreds a day; thankfully, they’ve almost all been held for moderation, but it was still a pain in the proverbial to have to manually delete hundreds of comment spams every day. Wordpress ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/09/28/109/ In furtherance of my mission to acquire every shiny white piece of computer hardware ever, I bought an iMac a month or so ago, and I love it. I made the decision to upgrade when I realised that I was using my 12” PowerBook for everything, despite having a powerful ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/09/28/108/ So, it’s been months since my last post. I wasn’t lying then; I really have been in the wars. More so, lately – the day after I wrote that post, I came down with acute allergic conjunctivits, which has since turned into chronic allergic conjunctivitis. My opthalmologist is of little ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/09/28/106/ 2005 is the Year of the Injury. First a case of cellulitis that caused a potential clot and a lot of mobility issues; then a range of allergic reactions to just about everything in the world; then a sliced-open finger that mashed up my nailbed and taught me new things ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/06/17/105/ LiveJournal, one of the web’s biggest blogging/journalling hubs, has just – finally – introduced tagging. This is something for which many LiveJournal users have been waiting for a long time, myself among them. Now, however, there’s something of a dilemma. Using LiveJournal tags provides one with the fundamental functionality of ... http://www.eleanorholmes.com/blog/archives/2005/06/16/104/