TopicProductivity
2010
- Noise-masking with noise
I'm fortunate in that I have my own office. If things get noisy, in the lab, I can shut my door. In fact, to avoid the social awkwardness of shutting my door on lab-mates mid conversation…
- The ideas game
It's been a while. Settling in to a new job has been terrifying and tiring in equal measure. The seemingly boundless spending of the early weeks has been replaced by an awfully adult awareness that the…
- Summer Internships
In the past few weeks, a couple of students have approached me asking if I would be willing to take them on as a summer intern. I scrabbled around to gather some information on the sort…
2011
- Good habits
Having just skimmed the Lifehacker article below, I started thinking about what habits I have started incorporating into my work-day, and what habits I really need to cultivate. Lifehacker's "Why and How I Switched to a…
- Despite Steve Jobs' best efforts, I have ordered an iPad
Last night I capitulated and ordered an iPad2. Since blogging about whether it might be a good idea to get one a while ago, I have noticed mention of iPads cropping up more and more in…
- Of Google+, Mechanical Turk and Academic Early-Adopters
Having deleted my facebook account nearly two years ago, as I activated a Google+ account this week I was wary of repeating previous mistakes. Back in 2009 I had decided that I wasn't getting as much…
- Reading pdf documents on an iPad
Can the iPad2, with its 132ppi 1024 x 768 screen, be used to comfortably read pdfs without the need to zoom and scroll about single pages? That was a question that troubled me when I was…
2012
- My new favourite online tool: IFTTT
IFTTT , if this then that , is an online, multi-service task automation tool I first read about on Lifehacker last year. I finally started using it today, and am seriously impressed. Once you've signed up…