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Training the Next Internet King

Posted on September 18, 2008 | Leave a comment

You haven’t seen much online activity from me lately. For the past three days I have been training a new employee to fill my position in the office. Unfortunately, once I have him trained, I will be taking on more management affairs as well as moving into outside sales. My rule over the Internet may have finally come to an end. So this is the impending doom that is being grownup. It sucks. Maybe I should be training this new guy to handle my Internet duties. I could have a ghost blogger. He could also manage my instant messages and Twitter. It’s not like the writing quality would go down. How could it possibly get any worse?

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Time to Pretend to Do Some Work

Posted on September 15, 2008 | Leave a comment

We have a new employee starting tomorrow, and it will be my job to train him. In order to feign the appearnce of productive work environment, I will go offline starting tomorrow. You just won’t be seeing me on Google Talk or AIM. I’ll Twitter, blog, and email if/when possible, but expect me to be out of comission for a while. Keep vigilent watch over the Internet. In my absence, please create content for the rest of world to see. I’ll be back. I always come back.

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Getting Things Done

Posted on September 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

There has been a lot of talk about GTD. It’s a thought process on how to manage tasks efficiently. There have been many different tweaks to this idea and lots of software written to put the practice on the computer. I’ve found yet another task management flowchart that might be useful to you guys.

Click for the full sized version.

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Just Like College, But Less Booze

Posted on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments

I have a deadline to finish up this report for an energy assessment survey that we did for a customer, and I’m up late and just ready to give up for the night. Fortunately I have the ability to skip out on work in the morning to finish up this report. It’s like just skipping out on my 8:00 AM classes, so you can finish up the project for the 1:00 PM class, not realizing you are digging yourself into a hole for the early class as well. I thought the days of having this feeling of adrenaline mixed in with despair were long gone with college.

It seems like just yesterday I was awake in the dorms, delirious and struggling to finish my C++ program and noticing that everyone else online was also trying to finish the same project. Those were good times. Now I must sleep, because in the real world there is no AP (academic probation) or STD (subject to dismissal). There is only fired.

PS. Yes, I did tell people I got an STD notice more than once while in school.

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