I’ve been in a limbo state over the passed few months while trying to get all my stuff together for my intended travels. I have since decided that life is great here in sunny South Africa, so I’m putting all of that jazz off for a while.

What’s next? Me-time! Designing, coding, learning, guitaring, drawing… all of which you will be able to follow on my blog! So check back soon! Over and out.

Full page Sesalos advert for a local alternative music publication called GRRiT Magazine. Pretty stoked with the way it turned out.

http://stereogum.com/bjork

Stereogum have put together a compilation of tracks to honor Bjork’s album “Post”. And of course to satisfy their indie listening readers’ hunger for music! Great tribute and great selection of bands to do the songs!

Also, my favorite designer, Scott Hansen of ISO 50, did the album cover! Wow!

GTD (Getting Things Done) isn’t new and neither is Leo’s conclusion, but it is a conclusion I, in part, agree with. GTD is a powerful process and task management framework but I find most applications that are based on that framework too time and energy consuming. Granted, their purpose is to manage tasks and processes, but my job is to actually complete the tasks.

But then again, I am the kind of person who when having to use butter instead of margarine I feel the need to shout, “Why are you resisting me!!?! Why don’t you want to spread?”.

From the mentioned Mac applications, I’ve tried and tested iGTD, OmniFocus, Things and Midnight Inbox. All work fantastically well. I’d suggest trying them all for yourself because each user’s needs are different and each user might place higher value on certain features.

Although OmniFocus and Things are the two most expensive, they do offer great Apple integration and third party support. OmniFocus allows for syncing with iCal and Mail, as well as being searchable in Spotlight. Things promises iPhone and iPod Touch versions for task management on-the-go. Things also stores all your data in an XML format so integrating into third party applications or websites will be pretty darn easy. Although I haven’t read anything to say a web service will be available from the makers of Things to integrate with your data, I suspect it might be a feature you’ll see after the application is out of beta. Especially since the iPhone and iPod Touch versions of the app will be exactly that - a web-based application.

Conclusion: I’d say Things is the prettiest and most fun to use with a clean, flexible and simple view of your tasks. OmniFocus is the most comprehensive and true to the GTD model without being cumbersome, and Midnight Inbox was a more intense overviewy (and free) version of OmniFocus.

That being said, I HIGHLY recommend a humble Mac app called TaskPaper. A beautiful example of power in simplicity! With functionality based on the GTD model and the freedom of a simple text file, this was by far the most fun and efficient task manager I had the pleasure of testing!

How do you manage your time and tasks? Comments appreciated

This site is powered by WordPress. I’ve tried Textpattern and MovableType, but not well enough to say which is better. I’ve just always enjoyed the way WordPress works and looks, and it’s pretty easy to customize.

At the moment I’m only using two plugins

• cformsII
• Recent Comments Widget

I have yet to browse through all the available and recommended plugins. These two are just ones I managed to find when piecing together this site’s initial structure and functionality.

The colour scheme will probably change before I’ve declared the site ‘complete’, but I’d like to add that a brilliant website for getting colour palettes (and colours, and pattens) is www.colourlovers.com. I could spend hours changing all the swatches in a design I’ve done!

Okay. Done! Hopefully I’ll get some time this weekend to tinker around and do more work on the site.

Okay, okay… the site isn’t quite complete yet, but putting it live in the state that it’s in pushes it up a few notches in my todo list. Hopefully I won’t find more important things to do. Like, you know, growing a mustache, or making a killer compilation CD, or playing old 8-bit games, or making long lists of things I could be doing…

…I make no promises.