Shereen’s journal

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Does your mind need a lifecycle management tool? November 13, 2007

Filed under: Personal, Techie — shereen @ 12:40 pm

Huargh..ha.. ha.. I read this article today as part of my quest to upgrade my knowledge in Information Studies field. Michael Lynch lab(the research lab that I’m working now) have this kind of practice where they would circulate subscribed mags and journals to research staff, hoping they will be read and benefits the researchers in some ways. Who is the writer? I didn’t bother to know him, no one had introduced him to me anyway. But I might have to know him soon – he’s funny and hillarious. He made me smile today.. Check out the article : http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/comment/2193984/does-brain-lifecycle-management

‘Wouldn’t it be great to stamp our thoughts with an expiry date and have a little pinger go off when it’s time to revisit? Then we’d be able to junk or update them, instead of having them fossilise or turn into prejudice.’

‘..Just as documents have a lifecycle, so do our thoughts.’

Anyway, his article reminds me that it’s OK to fossilise some of things happened in our life. And thus, I would delete names that I wouldn’t want to see again in this blog – and still, as time goes by, I might add up the same names again in the future.. we’ll see ;-) (hope not!)

Ya tuhan.. I’m so sarcastic these days, am I?

Time to get professional now.. David(the writer) suggested trying Netvibes as digital life manager, a tool to gather information feed, e-mail tip-offs and searches. Recently I’m using iGoogle (not so sophisticated but cute enough) to gather Google e-mails and few useful gadgets (like beauty tips of the day, horoscopes, world clocks, currency converter, countdown timer, live weather etc).

Previously I have mentioned about referring to some of popular blogs for recent techie updates (and also some cute personal blogs-I do admire one blogger, secretly) but I haven’t been there for ages, honestly(I feel guilty now). I might need to use Netvibes to gather the RSS feed so that I don’t look so stupid and feel so ashame of myself :-D

Ohh.. while writing this entry, I did checked out the website : http://www.netvibes.com/. It looks awesome! I might try it soon. Hope I won’t be spending too much time on those ;-)

Time to get back to work.

Sign off,
ML Lab, Sheffield
12.29 pm, Tuesday.