I work in IT, and have done for many years. Things come and go , crazes come and then jsut fade away again. Sometimes some of them stick and sometimes some of them are even useful. The newest one is all this social-neworking crap stuff. I must confess that I don’t really get it. This of course could simply be due to my limited metal capacity and a distinct lack on imagination, but there again…. Take Twitter for instance…. do we I really care about seeing millions of fatuous comments about people we don’t know and have no connection with , telling us about things that they are doing?
Now I am trying Brightkite.com, I want to see if I can think of a good reason for this. When I read their website I see that it could be used for instance let your friends find you.
But hang on a second this very site seems so happy to tell me I don’t have any friends!
Come on, if I wanted to be found I’d simply invite them to join me! And I sure as hell don’t want to be “found” by other people. The only really usefull thing I could think of this is for brief sexual encounters …. and as I’m happily shacked up already this seems to be rapidly ruling out any reason to keep my account open longer. However I will continue and see if some serious alchohol abuse this weekend manages to stimulate my imagination into finding a reason for this site.
Something that I have found bloody annoying in the past is that when I have done an upgrade on my iPhone, my Jailbreak disappears. Well that’s not the annoying thing at all really; you know that is going to happen. What annoys me is that half of my applications disappear from view. Of course this is simply due to me being too damn hasty to upgrade and never thinking before I go ahead and do it.
One of the applications that I use on Jailbreak is Categorisies, a good application that allows you to basically create folders and then dump your apps in them. This means that you then don’t have to flick through loads of screens on the iPhone to get to an application. The downside is twofold. Firstly it is really a very slow application, so I only drop stuff there that I hardly ever use. Secondly if you update the OS without first removing everything from Categories then the applications remain hidden. What a pain it you are not intending to Jailbreak again immediately (or worse you can’t!)
In my frustration at this I just used trusty old Google to find the answer …. and it works great.
Go into settings, enable restrictions, close settings, re-open and disable restrictions. This un-hides any icons that you hid with Categories or Poof or whatnot.
AAAAHHHHH Sanity at last!
One day I listed to David Allen spouting talking about hit GTD methodology. I’m not really a believer in all of these fancy management fad’s but I was really bitten by this. Mainly because I am a consummate time waster.
Just trying to use this method to do things has actually given me a little more control over my sanity. The biggest change? Well I now feel absolutely fine about not doing things!
Seriously.
Listen to or read the GTD books and you too might see the light.
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