GTD and me

February 27th, 2010

This is the variant I currently follow: Kourosh Dini’s variation

and I actually don’t have a flagged project or project view. I wind up in the ‘treading water’ view mostly except during the periodic reviews.

I also combine this with “Inbox Zero” which in 4 words is: all email is either deleted, delegated, archived, or done [immediately]. I refile mail as _toanswer (for do later), _waiting (for delegated explicit or implicit), and _archive (for archived) folders. Stuff in _toanswer and _waiting needs to be periodically synced into GTD. That violates the only one collection area philosophy, but you can think of it as a staging area until it gets into OmniFocus.

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January 15th, 2010

It probably comes as a surprise to you that someone who bought and returned the first version of the Kindle on principle that DRM of book content was economically flawed is now intending to buy the latest Kindle DX. It comes as a surprise to me too.

Review and more economic discussion (rationalization for dropping nearly $500) to follow when it arrives.

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Spiced hot chocolate version 2

February 5th, 2008

Spiced Hot Chocolate version 1

Here’s another recipe that is close to my favorite with a spiciness of 3 and sweetness of 3:

  • 1 cup milk, 2% fat
  • 30 grams 99% Cacao Scharffenberger Chocolate
  • 15 grams or 1/16 cup confectioners sugar (white granulated, not powdered)
  • 1/4 teaspoon and 1/16 teaspoon cardamom or cinnamon
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper

I cut back no chocolate and sugar from version 1 of the recipe.

Directions:

  1. Heat milk gently, at no point going higher than 140 degrees fahrenheit.
  2. Add chocolate, sugar, cardamom and chili powder.
  3. wait until partly melted and then periodically mix for 1/4 second pulses with a hand blender until chocolate all dissolved.
  4. Serve at 130.

The use of hand blender has side effect of frothing the milk which makes it have a richer taste, similar to steaming of the milk.

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