Tonight, I ran my first workshop in Wave. It was nice to have a space to discuss things, and unlike in a chat client it's easy to indicate what you're replying to. What I did was create a slide deck and make it available the day before. Then on the day, I was available to ...
People are surprised by this, but there was a period that I checked my email just once a week a la Tim Ferris (Amazon). This was during my gap year when I was working and although it annoyed various people - my boss, a guy I worked with, some of my friends... I didn't have ...
Subtitle: Things that Universities should tell you about, but often don't. I'm in my 6th year at university now, and over the course of it I've assembled my suite of tools that maximize my productivity. When I meet people from outside of Computer Science, I'm always amazed that they haven't heard of so many of these; ...
I was super excited this morning when I got an invite to Google Wave. I've read about it, but whilst there's been a lot of hype around it no-one seems to describe it such that I've really got it. Note - don't expect me to be any different, I tried to explain to my boyfriend ...
Check out the video from Google, below. I thought it was really cute. Google docs is a great, free alternative to MS Office, but that's not where the real power of it lies. For collaboration, for any document that anyone else is going to use, it's such a better alternative. During the summer, I was working for ...
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