Joe Innes

In my work, one of my major embarassments is falling behind my colleagues. I work with one other person on our Knowledge Base, and one of our goals is to have every document reviewed once every 6 months. I’m responsible for making sure that 250 or so articles are up to date, and I’m always falling behind and not being able to keep on top of my follow-ups with knowledge owners. I’ve had enough of copying and pasting into Outlook,...

I work for a multinational company, and I’ve tried every to-do list manager going, I’ve even tried to write a few myself. I inevitably stick with it for a week or two, and then give up. There’s a very simple reason for this. My mailbox is my to-do list. I rarely have action items that are not generated directly from an email, and I hate duplicating my efforts. What I’ve tried I’ve tried every productivity system going. GTD, Pomodoro, Don’t...

Sad news — the free and simple hosting provided by Meteor is coming to an end (as do all things), and so if you want to keep your apps, you need to migrate them to another host. I followed the steps below with a brand new Digital Ocean droplet, but this should work with any VPS you have access to. If you don’t have access to a VPS, check out this article. You’ll also need to configure SSH access using...

So, I’ve got an old laptop kicking around, and I decided to spend an afternoon making it into a home server. Choosing an OS The Windows key on the bottom has run dry, so I’ve decided to spin up Xubuntu on it. I want a graphical interface because it will make managing it much easier, but I don’t want to sacrifice too much disk space or speed to it. I set the torrent to download, and headed over to get...

If you voted for UKIP, I feel sorry for you. Politically, I’m so far way from you, you’d need a telescope to see me. Still, you deserve better representation. I wrote a little calculator to show how powerful your vote was. Check it out below. Play with it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. I voted for: NoneConservatives Labour SNP Lib Dems Democratic Unionist Party Sinn Fein Plaid Cymru SDLP Ulster Unionist Party UKIP Green Party Something is fundamentally wrong when one...