A Personal Blog
Archive for June, 2005
New Bio – Take 2
Jun 23rd
Apparently my first attempt at a new bio didn’t go over so well.
Comments such as:
Hmmm…is it weird to name your children but not your wife?
Were common. A mere oversight I assure you (and assure my wife).
Apparently my self-effacing “and get them to leave” didn’t go over well either.
So, thanks to everyone’s comments, here is v2 of the bio. Please let me know what you think :)
Jeremy is an author and business consultant with a passion for blogging, communications, time management and anything which makes people’s lives easier. He has spoken at dozens of conferences and worked with companies from Fortune 500s to home based businesses to understand the power of blogging, online marketing and personal productivity for their business and lives. His blog, Ensight.org, is read by more than 250,000 people every monthHe lives with his wife Shannon and two sons, Evan and Alex, in New Brunswick, Canada.
Some folk asked about the inclusion of “time management” in this, since I’ve probably only written a dozen posts on the subject. Largely this is due to my continued friendship with Marc Orchant, our joint work with Microsoft on time management, and our plans to extend our approaches in some interesting new ways.
Largely the addition is a forward-looking one, so that once I do start doing these things, it won’t seem out of place.
So, is this puppy better?
IE7 Preview This Week
Jun 23rd
I’ve been sitting on this for so long it hurts. This week at Gnomedex, Microsoft will be demo’ing IE7. I’m not sure if they’ve decided if they’ll be releasing a beta yet (there was some discussion of that), but they will be doing a strong demo.
Dave Winer’s already endorsed the browser, from an RSS perspective:
On Friday you’ll see how deeply integrated RSS is in the architecture of the browser. But that’s just the tip of what may turn out to be a very big iceberg. The people at Microsoft noticed something that I had seen, only peripherally — that there were applications of RSS that aren’t about news.
This isn’t the first time you’ll hear this type of reaction in the next week or so. You’ll also hear it about tabs, bookmark management, download management, security and standards (oh, and extensions).
The IE team has, to put it mildly, decided that the best way to rock the world is to:
1. Do the right thing 2. With the right people 3. At the right time 4. By empowering users to make a choice 5. Through a friendly, manageable, secure browser 6. That gets out of the way 7. And lets you actually surf the bloody internet with less worrying 8. Than any other browser 9. But 10. This will still be a beta 11. So, expect some issues 12. But also expect to be impressed 13. If only that they’ve done everything you’ve asked 14. And then some 15. In spite of constant criticism 16. That they totally deserved 17. Either way 18. We’ll have a great new browser 19. In just a few months 20. Yay!
Not Going to Gnomedex
Jun 22nd
Just a heads up that I’ll be missing Gnomedex again this year. Everything in me wanted to go. In fact, a company offered to pay for everything… But ultimately I had to rule in favor of the book getting done.
Sorry to everyone who I won’t see there. I’m thinking of going to the next Blog Business Summit though.
I'm a Mastermind
Jun 22nd
I enjoy taking personality tests. Darren linked to a common one (Myers-Briggs), so I decided to take it again.
Last time I took it (more than a year ago), I was an ENTJ.
Strong conceptual planner type, likes people but also likes alone time. That’s always been me in any personality test, and it’s true in real life as well.
This time I came out as an INTJ with really strong NT leanings, which apparently makes me a Mastermind:
Of the four aspects of strategic analysis and definition, it is the contingency planning or entailment organizing role that reaches the highest development in Masterminds. Entailing or contingency planning is not an informative activity, rather it is a directive one in which the planner tells others what to do and in what order to do it. As the organizing capabilities the Masterminds increase so does their inclination to take charge of whatever is going on.
Friday Time Waster: Poom!
Jun 21st
Okay, it’s not Friday, but it feels like it is out here on the east coast. Sun’s shining, nice cool breeze, it’s gorgeous hot and all feels right with the world.
So, I’m staying inside working ;-)
TDavid linked to this, and asked if anyone could beat his score. I did: 4500! :-D
Here’s the game: Poom. It’s like vertical pong + tetris. Or something.
