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Weekly Review

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This is the reason you don’t need a diary if you follow the GTD philosophy of managing your work. One of the tenets of Getting Things Done is to use a diary or calendar only for things you must absolutely do on a specific date or time. The image on the right is the result of my weekly review of two weeks ago. Everything I need to do the following week is written on a 3” x 3” sheet of paper. When I’ve decided what to do on a daily basis, it all gets elaborated either in kGTD or on another 3” x 3” sheet of paper.

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Two muses

Kristin Hersh’s new solo album, tentatively titled Fireworks, is due to visit Nashville in March for mixing by Trina Shoemaker. It’s got Dave Narcizo (from Throwing Muses) on drums, and the wonderful string people The McCarricks doing their string things.

Emm Gryner’s new album, The Summer of High Hopes, is in its final mixing stage. This album has oodles of long-time live favourites never previously recorded. Just like her 2000 album, Dead Relatives.

Track listing:

  1. Merlot
  2. Girls R Murder
  3. Star/Crossed (featuring Vitaminsforyou)
  4. All-Time Low
  5. Black-Eyed Blue Sky
  6. Blackwinged Bird
  7. Sunshine
  8. See The Sea
  9. Almighty Love
  10. Sweet Destroyer

The Irish release will also have a new version of Symphonic.

And in related news: Emm’s new band Hot One are having their record mixed in London this week.

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IntelliTXT Spam

Wandering around MacNN last week I came across posts with additional hypertext links. When you mouse over them, an advertisement appears. So now, we have advertising masquerading as genuine article links. MacNN even has such advertisements in its forums posts.

These advertisements are starting to appear everywhere on the web.

Such links disrupt your viewing experience, and make you think twice before looking at a link. Indeed, it’s not clear, unless you’re familiar with a site, what links have been added by the content provider, and which are these spam advertisements.

Others think the same.

Use PithHelmet with Safari to block intellitxt.com

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Blue clouds with my coffee

And guess what? It is mine.

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Redhead: Walking on Blue Clouds

Mmmm.. progressive trance, with melodic keys and a deep sawtooth pad that goes in circles. It will be mine soon.

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From a million miles

Why is it that UK coverage of Six Nations rugby matches held in France is always so archaic? The BBC takes its feed from the French coverage, meaning that pictures are in 4:3 format and the sound appears to come from an AM radio. In today’s era of widescreen television and digital sound this is dreadful experience and after a few minutes becomes unbearable.

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VAT’s bizarre

We had our first VAT inspection in the autumn of 2004. Being present at a VAT inspection is a bit like a Quality Assurance review – be compliant and courteous, but never offer more than is asked for.

During this review we reached a conclusion with our inspector that there wasn’t any VAT chargeable on the provision of software licenses to one of our European customers. Consequently, we invoice them without VAT because it’s considered a service rather than goods. However, we purchase these software licenses from a company in the UK. This means we have to pay VAT and then claim it back from HM Revenue & Customs.

Things get stranger still: we make our VAT return on a quarterly basis, based on purchases made and invoices raised. It’s possible, depending on the time that a purchase is made, that we get money back from invoices we’ve not paid, and indeed, from invoices that our clients have not yet paid. Our suppliers have their own payment schedules to HM Revenue & Customs.

Given that we’re VAT registered and our larger customers are VAT registered, surely it would be easier for all concerned not to have to include VAT on transactions between two UK VAT registered companies? I don’t know why this isn’t implemented. It’s a legal requirement to include VAT information on invoices, therefore providing an opportunity for checking at the time of an inspection.

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Meal with it

Here we go again:

Putting a meal together is definitely something they [parents] still value but it is often impossible to do on a daily basis.

This according to Kathryn Milburn, who is co-director of the Centre for Research on families and relationships based at Edinburgh University.

Is it really impossible? No, it just takes preparation, thought, and effort. And, if you have a family, well, duh, there are people to help.

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