Chris’ Blog

Piggybacking on my post from last night I thought I’d share a website that was brought to my attention that I’ve used a bit at work.  Its called nowdothis.com The idea behind it is that you go in and setup a list of tasks and it gives you the first task on the list.  Its just a blank screen so there is very little distraction.  You hit the page and get your task, work on it, and then mark it done and you get the next task.  When you’re all finished it has a happy message about being all done!  Its quite a simple idea really but it can be a great help to keep reminding me what I’m working on (or supposed to be…).  I even experimented with having it in my side bar in firefox but I decided I didn’t need it to be there all the time.  The page serves as a great reminder of what I’m supposed to be working on if I think I’m starting to get off track.  There is no registration required and I think (not 100% sure) because it uses cookies and javascript you could actually pull it up and then go offline and use it so you could disconnect yourself from the web if that is one of your time sinks.  Go ahead and give it a shot!

Well life has gotten busy! School starts, and thats the end of it! I have to work 20 hrs a week, and now I have labs, homework, and just busy work. Physics is killing me because probably mainly because I don’t own the book… I’m thinking maybe I need to buy it. And Probably spend time reading for my classes… Well I don’t really like that idea, but I’m guessing I’ll have to. I also worked a bit more on the family web page this weekend. It was a day off and I didn’t feel like working. I now have a way to upload pictures (only *.jpg now) and it creates a thumbnail for each image. It also now has an image viewer that is written in ajax. This was a nice setup but now I have to setup a way for it to only show the particular user or family pictures. I also fixed the time option so that it displays as AM and PM, and that it shows NONE if no time is given. I also started to create a date range option which shows a calendar that someone can click to fill in the date boxes. It looks ok although I haven’t uploaded it to the live site yet. Maybe sometime this weekend… Back to school work!