Friday, April 18, 2008

Brian Kenyon's Homepage on the web

I am using all of the Blogging Services available to Blog It to post a link to my homepage on the web.
So if you want to know all things Brian Kenyon go to http://www.BrianKenyon.com .

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Power in Printing Money

So Ive just been watching this video shown to me by digg
and will start reading up on money printing and the power within it
Jack Weatherford’s book The History of Money
even more

Im really loving the educational videos available on Google Video .

After watching this documentary I think that I am less secure about the value of the American dollar. The fact that The interest rate and the amount of gold that is required to backup the paper money in the economy is so plastic and flexible makes me wonder that there may not be enough checks and balances.

I guess we need a 100 percent Gold standard rather than fiat paper money standards.

However, how will this effect nations without gold resources?

Maybe there is a system that bases value on time and the productivity of people and the time they actually work?

Maybe the measurement can be based on some physical, or mental operation standard that the majority of people would be able to perform throughout the world.

Monday, January 09, 2006

Somebody Please link MySpace and Friendster

I mainly use Friendster because all of my friends are mostly on it already. However with Myspace's growing popularity I am hoping that somebody someday actually comes up with a way to link and or copy over the 2 profiles linking the 2 social networks. Im too entrenched in Friendster to leave and not totally move over to Myspace.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Newsletter and email lists Filter Rules for kinda-spam

In my gmail account and on my horde online filter to limit the amount of kinda-spam, (email newsletters I am unable to read all the time or dont have a high priority and I dont have enough time to unsubscribe or am unwilling to change my email address) I use the following filter rules that search for body text filtering email most likely to be automated newsletters to aLists IMAP folder.
The following words are what I filter:
unsubscribe
reply with remove
"to be removed"
subscriber
enewsletter
no longer wish to receive
"to stop receiving"

In the to: field
undisclosed

This filters most of my newsletters into a lists folder for later review and reading when I have the time

I wish I could run a separate spam filter like tool that could learn newsletters from my normal mail and spam.

Anybody have any other filter word suggestions?

Friday, September 23, 2005

Combine PocketMod and GTD TiddlyWiki and the trials of the PPC phone

I would love it if there was a way to use GTD TiddlyWiki and have it make a custom pocketmod.
While I love the Hipster PDA
the pocketmod seems more efficient.
Can anyone work at linking them together?

Going from Digital to Analog to Hybrid Analog with Digital Universal Backup
I was using my PocketPC Phone PDA which was a wonderful toy. I always got oohs and aaaahhs, or man thats a big phone. But having a phone and pda combined seemed efficient and do to the crappy software on it for the Task syncing with outlook I used PocketInformant, A very impressive program for handling hundreds of tasks and in my mind the only way to handle tasks on the ppc platform (I love the filters). However, the PPC phone failed at being a PPC because it would always lockup or go slow with my 3500+ tasklist ( I am an entrepreneur + contract web developer so always have almost literally 100 projects going on at once ) . I spent more time fighting with a locking up slow going ppc phone that actually getting things done.

After breaking the screen on my ppc phone and after having done quite a bit of reading and research into David Allens GTD methodology I began thinking there has got to be an easier, less technical, more fluidly natural and organic way than grafitti'ing things into microsoft outlook. (although I tried the GTD Outlook plugin Im not quite ready for it until I filter my inbox and compile everything into 1 inbox which I am converting all my email into an IMAP account that I can syncronize on the road. I only wist I could have all my outlook tasks as emails)
It finally made sense that good old pen and paper works faster (so long as the papers dont get lost or disorganized ) than a slow PPC .

I can use the PocketMod for my 2,000 foot view and as Steven Covey does plan and plot out my week ahead and then print it out as a pocket mod and fold it up in my wallet. If I need to add things I have a blank task list and on my weekly review can pull them into outlook and re-print the next week. I also have an empty - On-the-fly pocketmod for thoughts ideas someday maybes, @Calls, @Emails, @groceries, or anything else that comes in quickly. Outlook saves me time by prioritizing so I dont have to re-write or even worse carry around 10 pocketmods... Although they would be about the same size and thickness as my Hipster PDA.

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Thursday, August 25, 2005

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Genuine Curiosity :: Getting Things...Stuck?

Genuine Curiosity :: Getting Things...Stuck?
YEAH! Another GTD Fan... Good mix of Steven Covey and David Allen... I recommend Purpose Driven Life for core value prioritization - 50,000 foot view, and then narrow in work hard and focus... My constant issue... Multitasking Prioritization and Keeping focus on the fly in a small super energetic experience driven company.