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RSS Feed Changing - please update your readers
Adam's House O' Fun on Thu 15 Oct 2009 at 8:19 PM
Or, if you prefer, "So long, and thanks for all the blogs!"No, the blog is not shutting down.  PERISH THE THOUGHT!After sticking by MovableType as my blog software for something like seven years, it's
Minutiae, Updates on me, Blog, changes, feed ...all

Back once again, the incredible..
Adam's House O' Fun on Sat 03 Oct 2009 at 10:14 PM
Welcome backI haven't been able to update for about four weeks.  The reason for this is that I, rather uncharacteristically, decided to dive into the work of updating my blog with four days left befor
dance, law, Minutiae, productivity, school ...all

Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week Three
Adam's House O' Fun on Tue 08 Sep 2009 at 3:00 AM
It's now Monday on the long weekend, and this marks the end of my experiment with biphasic sleeping.  I've included the third week of journaling here, and then below that my final thoughts on the expe
Habits, Lifehacking, Minutiae, Updates on me, biphasicsleep ...all

Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week Two
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 3:54 PM
Alright, it is now Monday, and that means that I have completed two weeks of my experiment with biphasic sleeping.  Although the first week's journal was very optimistic, I definitely felt a change of

What is this Twitter thing all about?
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 31 Aug 2009 at 1:07 PM
Unless you've been living in a cave that is protected from wireless internet access, own a tin foil hat, wear that tin foil hat with the shiny side facing out, and haven't been talking to the hermit li

RTM and GTD - Acronyms to change your life
Adam's House O' Fun on Fri 28 Aug 2009 at 4:20 AM
One of the projects that I had decided I wanted to take on during my break was to review the web application called Remember the Milk (RTM), and see how it would integrate with my existing GTD (Getting

Lifehacking
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 24 Aug 2009 at 5:46 AM
Lifehacking is an odd term, but the benefits that the activity bring are well worth getting past that initial connotation.  To me, lifehacking is the process of making changes in your life, your routi

Biphasic Sleep Journal - Week One
Adam's House O' Fun on Sun 23 Aug 2009 at 9:30 AM
I finished work last week, and had three weeks ahead of me.  Prior to the end of work, I had been collecting a large number of projects that I wanted to tackle before school started. I will be writing

Saiyonara
Adam's House O' Fun on Fri 14 Aug 2009 at 9:23 AM
Well, I've finished my last day at work.  As a result of the fact that I've cleaned up all of my loose ends, I'm left with very little to do today - that will no doubt be a completely different story

A conversation on GTD
Adam's House O' Fun on Wed 12 Aug 2009 at 2:11 PM
A friend and I were talking recently about GTD, and some of the difficulties he was having with his own implementation.  The conversation we ended up having turned out to be a good primer on some addi

GET DOWN!
Adam's House O' Fun on Thu 06 Aug 2009 at 8:51 PM
Man oh man, what a week!I gave my notice three weeks ago.  I had a week of vacation time left over, so I worked two weeks, had a week of vacation, and then will work one more week starting Monday.  W

Another year, another festival
Adam's House O' Fun on Sun 02 Aug 2009 at 8:59 PM
Another August long weekend has come to pass, and in doing so, another iteration of the Victoria Electronic Music Festival has come and gone.  Two years ago, I volunteered for the first time at the fe

Frustration
Adam's House O' Fun on Fri 24 Jul 2009 at 12:05 PM
Argh.You ever have those periods of time when you feel like there are things you should be doing, and you're not doing them?  Or where you can tell there's something intangible pulling at the back of

The end of one story, the beginning of another
Adam's House O' Fun on Sat 18 Jul 2009 at 6:00 PM
On Friday of last week, I handed in my notice to let my employers know that I would be leaving the company in one month's time.  This action is a milestone indicative of plans that have been underway

Still here...
Adam's House O' Fun on Sun 05 Jul 2009 at 8:57 PM
I'm still here, there just hasn't been much recently inspiring me to write.  In the meantime, here are some excellent dance videos to entertain yourself with:Crazy Scandinavian'sThese guys may look go

Workshops, Community, and Collaboration
Adam's House O' Fun on Sun 28 Jun 2009 at 3:04 PM
Last night, I took the second popping workshop I've been aware of ever being offered in Victoria.  While I know that there have been other workshops offered between this one and the last one I took (J

Practice Routine
Adam's House O' Fun on Tue 23 Jun 2009 at 8:50 AM
A Border Collie With Nothing to DoI've been off of the squash courts for just shy of a month now.  I'm meeting up with Rob to do some light training for the first time in what feels like ever, so I an

Vibestreet Dance end-of-year wrap-up
Adam's House O' Fun on Tue 16 Jun 2009 at 2:28 PM
It's been a little longer than normal since my last entry.  That's mostly because I've been keeping myself fairly busy.  The stuff that is keeping me busy is stuff that I don't really want to set dow

Biking is awesome
Adam's House O' Fun on Thu 04 Jun 2009 at 8:46 AM
When I graduated from University, my parents offered to get me a graduation present, or to just give me some cash to do with as I pleased.  My family is very practical this way; you can ask for gifts

The small things
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 01 Jun 2009 at 5:00 PM
As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of little things that increase the efficiency of things that I do frequently.Below are a few programs that I have installed on my machine at work that enable thi

Evolution of a system, and some other minor updates
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 01 Jun 2009 at 8:31 AM
It's been around two months since I started leveraging Macintosh's Stickies to act as my digital task management system.  As all good processes should do, my system has evolved over time in order to b

Making the most of your time
Adam's House O' Fun on Fri 22 May 2009 at 6:42 PM
Today's my thirtieth birthday.  For a lot of people that's a pretty big milestone.  Some people see it as the start of entering mid-life, some the end of youth.  I try to live my life by staying pre

The art of humble confidence
Adam's House O' Fun on Mon 18 May 2009 at 8:18 PM
Project management is an interesting discipline to work in.  It's natural for people, over time, to gravitate upwards and towards roles that involve management.  Gaining a deep knowledge of a given d

Dance notes
Adam's House O' Fun on Sat 16 May 2009 at 3:27 PM
Since starting to teach classes, opportunities to come up with new ideas and techniques to teach in class are something I have been trying to keep on top of.  Well, actually, it's not really an option

Teaching better...
Adam's House O' Fun on Tue 12 May 2009 at 8:28 AM
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I recently took over teaching the popping classes put on at Vibestreet Dance.  The story behind this is that our existing instructor fell into a wormhole and is now