Friday, 5 January 2007

A bunch of tools to help you with your multinational time-management.

Firstly, there's the freeware/shareware application, Qlock. It sits on your desktop, and is hugely configurable. So you can see what time it is anywhere in the world. You can set alarms for any of those cities. And you can hide or show the clocks with a click of your mouse.

Next in the list is a site for people who don't have a need for a clock on their desktops 24/7. If you have an occasional need to check times, this is the place to go... WorldTimeServer.com. This site also offers you a free widget to add to your blog... you can pop an analog or digital clock to your site.

And if you want to customise a countdown, and see the time displayed as days, hours, or seconds, head for TimeAndDate.com. As of this very second, I'll turn 50 years old in exactly... 382 363 170 seconds! Send me a birthday present. You've got time!

*Said the Leaning Tower of Piza to the Big Ben.

Links:

• Qlock: http://www.qlock.com/
• World Time Server: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/
• Time and Date: http://www.timeanddate.com/

Thursday, 4 January 2007

When I first came across the work of Scott Wade, I thought it was a prank. But a quick Google of his name yielded dozens of sites showing his work. He seems to be real!

He's an American artist who works in a particularly transitory medium... the dust on car windows.

He waits for dust to accumulate, and then hacks at it with paintbrushes and such to remove bits of dust to make masterpieces.

Links:

• Scott Wade's Home Page: http://www.dirtycarart.com/
• Scott Wade's Dirty Car Art Gallery: http://www.dirtycarart.com/gallery/
• Footage from K-EYE 42 of Scott at work on a 'dirty picture': http://keyetv.com/video/?id=8499@keye.dayport.com
  
• A Google search that shows how wide-spread the dirt: Google search terms: 'Scott Wade Dirty Car Art'
• A story about Scott on Autoblog, which has some really cool pics: http://www.autoblog.com -- scott-wade

Tuesday, 2 January 2007

The second day of 2007, and you've probably got some New Year's resolutions that you're still committed to. Here's a free online tool to help you do the things you want to do. Joe's Goals is a website that let's you define your positive and negative goals, and then track your progress. When you do something towards a goal, you click on the goal. And the online software keeps count.

There's also a Joe's Logbook option, which is really a goal-tracking tool for a particular project.

For me, one of the best things about the site is that you can set it up to email you a reminder if you haven't updated your goals for a while. It really helps you to be mindful.


Links:

• Joe's Goals: http://www.joesgoals.com/
  
• Joe's Logbook: http://www.joeslogbook.com/
  
• Joe's Blog: http://blog.joesgoals.com/