Month: August 2006

Thinking there is a ‘final solution’ to complex problems that have been part of humanity since the dawn of time is what creates these catastrophes in the first place.

From the comment over at Fred Wilson’s blog.

One of the features of Google Analytics that I wanted, had, but noticed only recently is sharing of reports. It turns out:

Google Analytics provides the ability to add any number of users to your account, and to grant varying levels of access to your reports. You may grant access to the reports of particular profiles when adding a new user, or modify access for existing users.

Granted access can be either read-only per report or a full administrative access to the account. This last one is useful for transfering ownership, for example. If the website is sold or maintainers change for some other reason, the new owner or maintainer can be given full administrative access to the account, and then the old one can be revoked access.

In other news, the profile limit has been raised from 5 to 10. Yup, now I can monitor twice as many websites. Sweet!

I came across this in comments at Sanjay’s blog

“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death! What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no reponsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap. then you finish of as an orgasm !!!Amen”

Hilarious. And somewhat true.

Firefox crashing on me, WordPress misbehaviour, et all don’t happen to me all that often. But when something does go wrong, it usually takes The Best Post of the Millenium ™ with it. Autosave is a feature that has been present for years in word processors. It started to show up in web tools during the last couple of years, and I’d be glad to see it implemented in WordPress, as BloggingPro hints might happen very soon. But on the other hand, I’m not even desperate enough to install the plugin.

Staying focused and productive is a hot subject this days. There are plenty of tutorials and lists that suggest what you should and shouldn’t do to improve your workflow. Most of these repeat each other, without saying anything new. 18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work is yet another such list. Nicely written though.

1. Write out a daily task list and plan your day.
2. Allocate time slots colleagues can interrupt you.
3. Apply time boxing.
4. Setup filters in your email.
5. Do not check personal email in the morning.
6. Set your IM status.
7. Listen to the right types of music.
8. Use the headphones but leave the music off.
9. Fill up a water bottle.
10. Find the best time to do repetitive and boring tasks.
11. Bring your lunch and have it at your desk.
12. Don’t make long personal calls.
13. Clean up your desk.
14. Get a good chair.
15. Use shortcuts on your computer.
16. Close programs you’re not using.
17. Limit time on Digg, Delicious, news sites and blogs.
18. Change your mindset and make work fun.

Follow the link for more explanations on each of these points.