23 Jul 08 Lifehacker

I think I must be a Lifehacker. In her original book Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day Gina Trapani says that Lifehackers have the following qualities:

They are optimists – where there’s a will there’s a way.
They expect to be able to find their data from any Internet-connected device.
They would rather spend 2 hours and 59 minutes automating a 3 hour task than doing it manually.
They get lost in their work and forget it’s lunchtime.
Lifehackers live and work on their computers

Ok, I fit all the above, so I must be one. I spent the first half of my life without a computer. There were no computers at school. I didn’t get one until I was in my mid-twenties. I didn’t have a cellphone until I was in my thirties. Having said that, I’ve had a PC for over 20 years now, and a cellphone for 16, so they’re certainly entrenched in my way of life. What would we do without them, I find myself saying, but I did. When it comes to most of the latest technology though, I don’t want to turn the clock back!

You might like to check out Gina’s latest book at the link below too. I’ve really found Lifehacker to be a great time-saving read, and I’ve implemented a number of her recommendations. There’s stuff for Windows, Mac and Linux users in there.

Upgrade Your Life: The Lifehacker Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, Better

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30 Mar 08 We’ve moved

You might or might not notice that The Eye has a new home.

I’ve been toying with the idea for a while. I wanted to move it off a sub-directory, to perhaps improve SEO. What really made me go with it today, was that I upgraded the site to WordPress 2.5, and a lot of stuff didn’t work satisfactorily.

Rather than try and undo everything, I though, I’d bite the bullet, and move it. So here we are at our brand new home at http://wildcabbage.net. There’s not significance to the domain. It’s simply a spare one I had laying around that I wasn’t really using.

It was quite easy really to move. I’m not going to bore all you non-geeks that read this blog with the gory techie details here, but if you’re interested in how I did it, then you can shoot over to my geeky blog here and read all about it.

Tags: 301 redirects, biting the bullet, brand new home, domain moves, geek, moving a wordpress blog, nerd, non geeks, techie, the eye, wild cabbage, wordpress 2.5, wordpress blog move