Jimmie Bise says these two things quite a bit.
They are words to live by.
1. Be useful
2. Don’t be a jerk.
Simple, yet so profound.
The iPad and Franklin Covey
I’m thinking the two should meet sometime.
Ok, let’s tie this together and I’ll tell you a short story.
Many years ago a friend of mine introduced me to the Franklin Planner system. Along with exposing to the art of planning and being proactive about your day he also had gotten a set of 3 tapes with his planner (back then, Franklin Planner sold you a day planner along with the training materials for it. I know. Nuts). These tapes were never transferred to a more modern medium like CDs. I know. I spent a crap load of time looking for them.
I was playing around on Amazon one day and found someone who had a used set of the very tapes I was looking for. I bought them and using a tape deck and a line input on my iMac, I soon has these tapes in a new CD format. Ahhh…Hyrum Smith and his training seminar lives.
But wait. New problem.
I haven’t owned a Franklin Day Planner in about 3 years. Bad Mike.
Yesterday, I listened to all 4 hours of the seminar.
There are no comparable software programs written for the iPad. It seems a natural fit. That’s my gripe this morning.
If I want the software for the iPad, I’m going to have to write it.
I can’t believe that not even Franklin Covey has written a descent software app for the iPad.
Before you ask, I won’t be allowed to sell the software I’m writing. I wish I could share it but I’m sure the powers that be at FC will get sue happy over software they didn’t authorize.
Oh yeah, I saw the software FC has for the iPhone. It has gotten lousy reviews and the planning piece hasn’t been updated or supported in two years. Bad FC.
Update: (04/05/11) I broke down and bought a new planner from FC.
A Novel Idea
This is the first post I’ve written from my iPad.
We are going to be having internet work here at our office building so I thought I would test the iPad and see how the WordPress app works.
Typing on an iPad is a heck of a lot better than typing on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Just sayin’
iPad 2 News
In my area of Lancaster, this is how the iPad2 sales went down…
Best Buy – A few iPads to sell. How many? I never got the number but there was no chance of getting one. It looked like about 10 people in a small line in the back of the store. No signage and just a very weird “vibe.” It felt like Best Buy just sold the few they had to close friends and relatives.
Wal-Mart – One of the area Wal-Mart stores we stopped at only had 2 iPads to sell. That’s right. Two.
The Lancaster Apple store. A line that took forever to get to the end of and when I did…
…I was greeted by an Apple employee who said, “Oh, Hi Mr. Williams. I hope you aren’t here for the iPad2 ’cause we’re sold out.”
First. I frequent the store so often that the employees actually DO know me by my name.
Second. The store sold out of the iPad2 in less than 1 hour.
What kind of crazy ^*^&^$&( is this?
First March Post
…and…
I’ve got nothing.
I did play “hooky” from the day job today.
That has to count for something damn it.
Mac Migration Tip
If you are planning on buying a new Mac and want to move your account to the new machine I have a quick piece of information to consider before doing so.
Are you moving the account from the same “type” of Mac?
In other words, are you moving your account from an older iMac to a newer one? If so, you should be fine.
If you migrate across different types of Macs then beware, bad things could happen.
I have migrated from a Mac Mini to a MacBook Pro to an iMac.
What is the problem, you ask?
My airport wireless doesn’t work and the bluetooth mouse jumps all over the place.
I booted the machine up from a restore disk and both the wireless and bluetooth work fine.
Somewhere, as I was moving my account among these different machines, I picked up a bad file or bad files that prevent the wireless from working and screw with the bluetooth port.
This weekend I plan on a “regen” of my new iMac.
Joy.
Leaving Twitter
I haven’t used Twitter since the superbowl.
It reminded me that I don’t use it much because I think it robs the hard core users of precious time. Time they could be using for something else like..oh, I don’t know spending time with real actual people perhaps.
Rather than being a mere tool, to some people I know Twitter is a way of life. A major portion of their day includes Twitter. To me, this is a serious problem.
I prefer to spend the time with my girls in a more face to face fashion. Emailing someone who lives in your house or telling your kids that its time for dinner by posting a message on Facebook is a major failing.
The idea that you can be “plugged in” to everything going on and still have a functioning family life is an illusion.
chipheadmike is no longer a functioning Twitter handle and I’m ok with that.
Update: (03.05.2011) Still NOT using Twitter. Universe still here.
