Archive for October, 2008
Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 29 October to 30 October
Stuff I’ve bookmarked on delicious.com from 29 October to 30 October:
Five ways to publish commentable documents online at Helpful Technology – A great post from Steph Gray rounding up the ways (or surprising lack of them) of making lengthy documents available for people to mark up with comments online.
LineBuzz.com – Inline Blog Comments – Worth [...]
Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 28 October to 29 October
Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 28 October to 29 October:
ReadWriteGov – First of hopefully many ‘ReadWriteGov’ events orgainsed by Dave Briggs. I am going to this one. I went, it was well worth it, and Dave will be posting a summary here.
BackType – I’ve been using CoComment (inconsistenly) to track and share my comments across the [...]
Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 26 October to 28 October
Stuff I’ve bookmarked from 26 October to 28 October:
5 Very Simple Ways to Create an Avatar – Some nifty ways of putting the personality into online personal branding wirth cool avatar tools.
Tips on Finding Your Blogging Rhythm – A great post on frequency of blogging, the optimal posting level, and whether it matters.
CLG, Youth Advisors [...]
New Macbook special feature: the QWERTZ keyboard
My new Macbook arrived today from Apple online, after much anticipation.
What’s wrong with this picture?
I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
More pics (enlargeable):
Stuff I’ve bookmarked on October 25th
Stuff I’ve bookmarked on October 25th from 11:15 to 19:34:
Bubbles, the Site Specific Browser for Windows – Turn any website into a powerful desktop application!
The Power of Cranking Widgets | GTD Times -
Cranking Widgets: Turn Your Work into Stress-free Productivity | Zen Habits -
Getting co-workers and friends started on Twitter -
Spanning Sync – Sync iCal [...]
The cult of Getting Things Done: an introduction to GTD
This is one of a series of posts on my mission to improve my productivity using Getting Things Done (GTD). Read the full series here.
GTD and me
When I started this blog, I chose the name Mission Creep because I have a lot of pride in my productivity (I am an efficient doer) and a tendency [...]
Getting started with Getting Things Done (GTD)
This is the introduction to a short series of posts about my mission to improve my productivity by applying the principles of Getting Things Done (GTD), David Allen’s self-help bible on workload management.
An enormous amount has been written about GTD, and everyone’s implementation will vary. So in this series I will focus on what I [...]
Even better Gmail with Google Redesigned
I recently discovered the joys of the Google Redesigned plugin for Firefox 3.
It transforms your Gmail from this:
To this:
Seriously, don’t even think twice. Just install it.
I’ve been using Gmail since its beta release and, despite its many strengths, have often struggled to find commonly used buttons because of the (frankly terrible) interface. But not any [...]

Hello, I'm Neil Williams. I'm a government web geek, a dad, a husband, a grower of veg, a keeper of hens and a lapsed comedy writer, roughly in that order. 