Archive for July, 2008

The Ant Wars

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

Once a month (or so) a colony of very small red ants and a colony of equally small black ants rise to the surface and go to war in an epic battle of miniscule proportions!
They carpet my front walk to the extent that we enter and exit through the garage for about 24 hours.
Then they [...]

GTD – Step 1 – Prioritize

Friday, July 11th, 2008

On Tuesday I talked a little (ok, maybe a lot) about GTD.
To reiterate… Step 1 is all about taking care of the important things first.
And doing it is easier than you may think. I made this little image, printed it out and hung it on my wall (There has to be a name for [...]

Analysis of a Golf Swing

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I went golfing this morning and played with a couple of guys who were essentially new to the sport.

Getting Things Done

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I am Zen… I’ve discoverd my Tao… I GTD (Get things done)
Oh wait, reality’s setting in, yup, work’s still piled up to my eyeballs.
-sigh-
I love dabbling in new things & I love multitasking (I get bored if I’m not busy), but I have a problem.
Lately… ok, for years now… I’ve had some issues Getting Things [...]

Delicious Del.icio.us

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I’ve been alternating between Firefox 2 and 3 for a few weeks now and I have to say, it’s really frustrating.
I love Firefox, and especially version 3… unfortunately I also love my addons.
One of the issues I’ve run into through the beta of Firefox 3 is that most of my addons wouldn’t work… I [...]

Farmers Market Withdrawl

Monday, July 7th, 2008

We’ve missed out on Farmer’s markets two weekends in a row now for various reasons and I’m starting to go through withdrawl.
I’ve pretty much run out of produce (except for lettuces and radish which we pulled from our own garden this week) and am dreading having to put in a visit to the grocery store [...]

What does your garden grow?

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Garden specs :
The 2008 garden is a little below 25 X 30 feet, or ~850 square feet.
Biggest pests so far:

Mosquitos – Installed bat boxes and spray on repellent
Ants – Don’t know what to do about this menace!

Grown:
We’ve planted the following:

Corn
Eggplant
Various Heritage Tomatoes
Ground Cherries
Various Peppers (green, red, orange etc)
Jalapeño
Horseradish

Turnip
Radish
Peas
Beans
Parsnip
Various Carrots
Various Potatoes
Various Lettuces
Various Radichios
Cucumbers
Various Onions
Garlic
Pumpkin
Cantaloupe
Broccoli
Rhubarb
And not [...]

iPhones and Rogers

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

There’s quite a bit of talk passing around the interwebs of Canada lately regarding the coming release of the iPhone on the good ole’ Rogers network… and little of if it is positive.
What has been, essentially, a great play by Rogers (the iPhone makes a perfect flagship product) is starting to turn ugly; and Rogers [...]

Some new stuff

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

MichaelValiant.com is undergoing some changes… all for the better.
First, this site was never intended to be a strict ‘Internet Marketing’, ecommerce, or social media type blog.  MichaelValiant is me, literally (obviously) and I get bored writing about the same thing all the time (sorry, blame the gemini in me).
So, in order to try and regain [...]