At Celestica, it's Lotus Notes and Domino with my Blackberry (8830 Curve on VZW for me) for walking around. At home, I (mostly) use Mac Mail plus iCal for managing my life. To connect the two calendar systems I use Missing Sync by Mark Space. I've begun playing with Thunderbird 3 Alpha and like it quite a bit but there's no calendar support for Lightning/Sunbird/GCal/iCal.
The problem is that while the Blackberry/BES occasionally have their issues, iCal/MissingSync/Apple's Sync Services appear to be incredibly fragile and require way too much of my time to manage. Resetting sync history, backup/restore of iCal...it's nuts.
So my question is: how do you handle this? My personal life is busy enough that I need a calendar I can count on that connects to my Blackberry. The BB rarely leaves my side once I leave the house. It's mine, not the company's so I'm comfortable putting whatever I want on there. Ideally, I'd only upload to the BES that non-business time is blocke but that's asking too much.
I've also found that Plaxo can be a life saver. It seems to handle basic synchronization with aplomb while syncing to just about everything other then a BES.
What calendar or set of calendars do you use for your personal life and how do you synchronize both parts of your life??
Monday, April 28, 2008
Saturday, April 19, 2008
This isn't at all about IT (I suppose I could come up with some clever analogy but that I'd be making it up) but I couldn't resist. I love my Alpine navigation unit in my car. I fly with no fewer than 3 Garmin GPS navigators. I use a Garmin Nuvi whenever I'm renting in any city in North America. Clearly I like the utility of GPS-based navigators but disconnecting your brain in the process can make for a very bad day...especially when flying. The photo is from the related article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
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Driver puts faith in GPS, shears off top of charter bus on bridge
Posted Apr 18th 2008 7:29PM by Jonathon Ramsey
Filed under: Gadgets, Etc., Tech
As of today, we're taking bets to see how long it will take before people realize that 'GPS' does not stand for 'Auto Pilot.' The latest 'But the GPS told me to...' story is brought to you by a charter bus driver in Seattle. Piloting a coach through the Washington Arboretum -- as the GPS instructed him -- the driver ignored, or didn't see, or didn't believe (take your pick) the flashing lights and sign warning him that his 11-foot-high bus was too tall for the looming 9-foot concrete overpass.
You can see how the story ends. The overpass ended up with some superficial damage, the coach got a"
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Current Reading
OK, so I haven't published anything since late February! How did that happen and where did the time go?????
Let me just say I've been busy. To get back in the habit, I thought I'd answer a question someone put to me in a recent meeting with some of my team- What am I reading these days?
Other than the usual list of a dozen plus magazines and 75+ newsfeeds, I'm reading "Lean Six Signa for Service" by Michael George and "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge.
I'd read the Lean Six Sigma book a couple of years ago I guess and thought about it more in the context of applying it to a service business. At the time I was running Content Operations at Getty Images and wanted to get a better understanding of how to apply Lean and Six Sigma, traditionally used in manufacturing but infrequently in a service business. This time around, sparked by the comments and questions from a colleague at Celestica, I began to revisit the book with an eye to applying these same techniques to IT itself. The more I read, the more fascinated I am by the idea. I'll write more later but there's a lot here.
The other book, on brain plasticity, is simply fascinating and I recommend it highly as an easy read. And I promise to get back on track here.
Let me just say I've been busy. To get back in the habit, I thought I'd answer a question someone put to me in a recent meeting with some of my team- What am I reading these days?
Other than the usual list of a dozen plus magazines and 75+ newsfeeds, I'm reading "Lean Six Signa for Service" by Michael George and "The Brain That Changes Itself" by Norman Doidge.
I'd read the Lean Six Sigma book a couple of years ago I guess and thought about it more in the context of applying it to a service business. At the time I was running Content Operations at Getty Images and wanted to get a better understanding of how to apply Lean and Six Sigma, traditionally used in manufacturing but infrequently in a service business. This time around, sparked by the comments and questions from a colleague at Celestica, I began to revisit the book with an eye to applying these same techniques to IT itself. The more I read, the more fascinated I am by the idea. I'll write more later but there's a lot here.
The other book, on brain plasticity, is simply fascinating and I recommend it highly as an easy read. And I promise to get back on track here.
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