The View from Down Here

The musings of an Aussie seeing the world from waist high.... from a wheelchair

Category: short order blogging

buried

GTD Times have some great advice as to how to save oneself from incidental reading overload especially  for knowledge workers. I wish I knew this sooner.

Bake sale

This is a photo of this evening’s labour. My first attempt at baking in this kitchen, with this oven since the move but more importantly for me it’s shortbread complete with my grandmother’s pricking technique.
It may not have been so evenly spread but for a first batch in several years it smells amazing.

tweet tweet

i used twitter yesterday much like I think it was intended, or at least a very handy way of using it to broadcast a problem PB was having with Vodafone (the Australian phone company) and his iPhone. It wasn’t solved through the tweeting but the up to the minute information was shared and further broadcasted. [...]

what might my MacBook say …..

this brief piece is based on a writing exercise based on getting a “Dear John” letter from my favourite piece of furniture. On the website it came from various writers penned letters from sofas and armchairs, scales, toilets and even an electric wheelchair.
Here’s my very drafty initial attempt
Dear Joanna,
Well I’ve had enough. So I’m [...]

Installing Love

This is so nice….
Tech Support: Yes, how can I help you?
Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install Love.  Can you guide me though the process?
Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?
Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?
Tech Support: The [...]

Say it in seconds

Brevity may be the order of the day for our PM, but ultimately what they say is more important.

starts

A friend I have (Church) has been keeping paper journal since she was 8. She is now 27. I’ve tried and failed, both in paper form and online. I was ok at it and then I think the job resulted in the loss of weekends for long enough for me to lose the drive. There [...]