January 2007 Archives
TAKE RESPONSIBILITY! If there’s a problem, fix it. If your job can’t be fixed, quit. How dare you waste your life in exchange for a paycheck. You have high speed internet access, bub, you’ve got no excuse. You don’t live a hovel in Ghana. Go do it!! Pick up the phone and call someone.
Seth Godin in SVN fireside chat
I am on the road again. Today I am traveling from Barcelona to Cyprus, spending over ten hours in airpanes and airports. No distractions, just me, so I could get a lot of job done. I carry a laptop computer, and already wrote some documents, I checked my e-mail and read all interesting news in Google Reader. I am in the 'flow', but will soon have to stop working. My laptop is running out of batteries, and I still have about half the trip to go. I searched in every corner of the airport, but haven't found a single power outlet!
Many travelers nowadays carry laptop computers and other electronic devices, and most of those devices need electricty. Batteries only serve for some hours, so power outlets in airports would be useful to many travelers. I can't imagine the number of productive hours lost each year in Milano alone! Please airports, give us power outlts.
A little bit more than one month ago, I started a new weblog called 'El Canasto' in which I write about 'Getting Things Done and personal productivity.
Until now I have written 28 posts meaning that I have been able to keep up with my initial schedule of at least one post every two days. I found it easy to find new material, and usually have about 10 posts in he pipeline.
The people have received the new blog very well. I have received 30 comments/trackbacks. Quite some bloggers have found my blog and have reposted or linked to my articles. The most popular post is my translation of David Seah's compact calendar for 2007 with 2850 unique views. At this moment I am receiving about 200-400 visitors per day.
So far it has been a very positive experience for me. Even though it costs me a little bit more time to write in Spanish, I enjoy using this language and already learned some more. Of course I tell my visitors that I am not a native speaker, and hope they are willing to forgive my errors.
