Monthly Archive for February, 2010

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Increasing productivity

9780735625846 144x150 Increasing productivityLast week I brought: The Time Management Toolkit: Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Step by Step and Take Back Your Life. (Price: about 17,50 euro)

Why?
Because I found myself too often in a situation where im working all day and do nothing the day afterwards.
I normally spend over an hour sorting out my emails every day. Not to mention another 2 hours of doing everything right away. This meant I often was in trouble to get things done before the deadline.

Yesterday I started to implement the MPS workflow.
I haven`t read the full book but I already implemented several steps like the “2 minute rule” and the “24 hour rule”.
So in case you think i`m slower than normal on responding to emails, I`m not, im just finishing a task first.

Summary after two days:

  • Tasklist is getting fuller
  • Inbox is getting emptier
  • I`ve got everything done for the next 3 days
  • Things are sorted, in my agenda and in my head
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Minor

Last monday I started to begin with my minor.

My main question is:
How is it possible to analyse Benzene and MTBE in gasoline using a GC-MS and SPME?

I will split this question up into two seperate parts:

  • Analysing the chemicals (benzene and MTBE) in gasoline by using GC-MS
  • Analysing the chemicals in water and maybe oil with SPME

I will be blogging bits and pieces of results in the next couple of 15 weeks.

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Website planning

Over the last couple of months I`ve been planning to change the content of my website/blog. I’m finished with the plans and I`ve been working according to this plan for 2 weeks now.

The plans include:

  • No more software release news, except for major versions (like WordPress 3.0, but non 2.9.2)
  • Cleaning up the archive by removing “double” items like beta and release candidate announcements
  • Add a webshop
  • More personal and project based content
  • Import my Blogger “video blog”; music.ramoonus.nl
  • Increase the speed of my site, by disabling several plugins
  • Modifications to the theme including graphical headers, to make things less static.

I will post more plans in the near future or when bigchanges are made.

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Myst day 4

On day 4 I collected the last Great Zero Markers, which meant I could enter the Great Zero`s calibration room.

Is it me or have the buttons on the four machines changed?

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Myst day 3

On the third day I finished several things I could finish on the second day.

I`ve completed the elder mission(s) finally. I had some difficulties with the fireflies and steam. There seemed to be a steam hole just next to where you spawn. The trick is to walk around it.

Afterwards I completed the mission and finished the 4 totems. I ended the first part of Uru.

I also picked up 9 Great Zero Markers (second run) which means I have to find 6 more. Very difficult …

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