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Hey can you guys log on to skype?

I will tonight when I get home from work. That will be around 4pm EST.

I spend my life mostly available on it.

Random question: Does anyone on here have a Filofax? If so, can you vouch for their usefulness? They are just about the only place where I've seen an up-datable academic calender in them and the Filofax bottom ranges aren't actually all that expensive (£18-£30). I'd look try get a low range one with an academic calender then use it through college, but I'd want to know if they are any use first?

Reliant121 wrote:Random question: Does anyone on here have a Filofax? If so, can you vouch for their usefulness? They are just about the only place where I've seen an up-datable academic calender in them and the Filofax bottom ranges aren't actually all that expensive (£18-£30). I'd look try get a low range one with an academic calender then use it through college, but I'd want to know if they are any use first?

I don't know if there are retail outlets over there, but I recommend Franklin Covey planners. They're detailed, easily customizable, and are geared toward very specific planning/prioritizing while still being flexible. They're also available - depending on your needs and wants - in sizes ranging from a pocket daybook to an attache-case sized one, complete with its own handles.

They post overseas and do a very similar thing to the Filofax. Since it'd have to be shipped over, it would be a bit more expensive unfortunately. But I admit they look great. That's one of the things I like about the idea of Filofax style organisers, the customisability of the calenders and notes.

I'm just more familiar with the Franklin Covey planners because a company for whom I used to work actually rolled them out to all their store managers internationally. Proper usage was even enforced by the DM's.

Of course, understandable. I might try and take a peek at fathers, although must avoid any confidential stuff.

Reliant121 wrote:Of course, understandable. I might try and take a peek at fathers, although must avoid any confidential stuff.

Erm... have we just found a wormhole? We seem to have stepped back into the past about 30 years. Surely there must be an electronic solution that will out perform a collection of old bits of paper. I've never found a decent piece of paper that can make a sound, or even vibrate, to tell me to remember something. With a decent app you should be able to view the information in a number of different ways, again a problem with paper.

IanKennedy wrote:

Reliant121 wrote:Of course, understandable. I might try and take a peek at fathers, although must avoid any confidential stuff.

Erm... have we just found a wormhole? We seem to have stepped back into the past about 30 years. Surely there must be an electronic solution that will out perform a collection of old bits of paper. I've never found a decent piece of paper that can make a sound, or even vibrate, to tell me to remember something. With a decent app you should be able to view the information in a number of different ways, again a problem with paper.

All true, and I no longer use a paper-and-pencil daybook. However, there is something to be said for such a method depending on the user's natural tendencies. Using a paper-and-pencil planner, in which you actual have to sit down and write things out and then specifically prioritize them, can force someone to put thought into that process who otherwise wouldn't naturally be so inclined. The Franklin Covey planners also have a process specifically designed to avoid the tendency to just re-schedule; something which I find is all too easy with a phone or PDA.

...Small problem, not allowed a phone in school hours and our local colleges don't allow it either. Besides, the vibrate function feels just like a text message which I have become accustomed to ignoring during school hours since I have had my phone confiscated on numerous occasions due opening messages. And I can't type on any phone, or even a computer, as quickly as I can write.

Just minutes ago I rushed out to a meeting with some people from my choir, only to discover I was there a day early. I guess I'm a bit too engaged into getting to places on time.

Well, bringing the car into the shop tomorrow. It's having trouble starting. Hope I can get it fixed.

I caught a self-replicating virus on my home's PC last week. Spent the entire week-end learning how to format my 3 hard drives and how to re-install Windows, and then do it (fucking 1 TB hard drive that took 3 hours to format ).

Things is, I am not 100% sure I did it right. Some things still feel wrong, and I can't install Windows Live Messenger

SolkaTruesilver wrote:I caught a self-replicating virus on my home's PC last week. Spent the entire week-end learning how to format my 3 hard drives and how to re-install Windows, and then do it (f***ing 1 TB hard drive that took 3 hours to format ).

Things is, I am not 100% sure I did it right. Some things still feel wrong, and I can't install Windows Live Messenger

Um... What do you mean you aren't sure you did it right? If you got rid of all the data theres no more virus, and what the hell were you doing that you downloaded a self-replicating virus that was impenetrable from all virus scanner? And how the hell did it take 3 hours to format any drive, it's the same time for all sizes, all it does is resets the data tables so that nothing is indexed, it doesn't actually delete anything, just makes all the data unreadable by the usual methods.