Alex around the World

I’ve recently discovered Google Calendar, another free online tool from Google (Google Search, Picasa, Google Earth, Gmail, Google Analytics, etc.). I started to use it as a personal calendar but soon realised that my colleagues and I could share information about meetings, appointments and leaves using this the “Share this calendar” functionality.I was also thinking about including information we need to share about ongoing projects (project-related meetings, task deadlines, milestones, etc.).It seems that lots of people are starting to use Google Calendar for work-related tasks (project management, admin stuff shared among colleagues, etc.).Read more:

• Matt Cutts’ review of Google Calendar,
• Lisa Reichelt’s post,
• StopDesign’s tips for Google Calendar.

I just finished installing Automattic’s WordPress Widgets plugin on my blog. What a nice tool! Everything seems much easier now when it comes to moving things around in my theme’s sidebar.As you can read on their plugin page:

You must have a theme that supports sidebar widgets. To help you with that, we’ve included updated files for the WordPress 2.0 Default Theme (Kubrick) and the Classic theme. There are many themes that rely on Classic’s script files, so it’s probably a good idea to install the new Classic files unless you have modified the theme yourself.

As I use the Emire theme (thanks Phu) and I don’t know if this theme is Kubrik-based, I had to make a few changes in the code, mainly about the layout and the CSS. I’m not a php expert, but I don’t think you need to be such an expert in order to fine-tune your theme and adapt it to the plugin.And the results are great: make simple, easy, and powerful changes to your sidebar in only a few clicks.Thank you, Automattic!Read more:

• Del.icio.us search on WordPress Widgets;
• WordPress.org announcement;
• Lorelle on WordPress blog;

I just received Scott Berkun’s “the Art of Project Management” that I ordered from Amazon. I’m still reading the preface but it seems to be a very useful and interesting publication. Read the rest of this entry »

Saw “The Island” yesterday. Very cool movie indeed. It reminded me of “Gattaca” or “Minority Report“. It’s a great action movie with an interesting story (about human cloning).There’s one thing that bothered me though: every 30 seconds, there’s a sort of not-so-subliminal message for either Puma, MSN, XBox, Nokia, Tag Heuer, Calvin Klein or Cadillac. Was that really necessary? Just wondering