Elegant Chaos

I use GlimmerBlocker and Click To Flash for ad blocking on the Mac.

Annoyingly, GlimmerBlocker doesn't seem to block Facebook sidebar ads by default.

However, that's easy to fix.

Add a new rule. Set

• Action: Whitelist URL
• Host is: "www.facebook.com"

Click the css tab at the top.

Enter the following CSS:

#pagelet_adbox { display: none !important; }

Click "Save", and try loading a Facebook page.

It worked for me... your mileage may vary...

When I was working at Sony, I got into the habit of keeping a 'daily status' log on the wiki - a kind of rough work diary listing what I'd been doing each day.

Initially this was prompted by some sort of project management initiative that asked us to report what we'd been doing each week, but I found it to be a really handy discipline, and carried it on long after the pressure from above died away.

When I moved back to Sports Interactive I started to do the same thing again (setting up the SI wiki in the process). I tried to get everyone else to do the same thing, but it only stuck with a couple of people.

Pragmatically, one of the advantages for me was being able to answer the "what have you been doing" type questions, especially when they were really just a thinly veiled "why is this late?". My job, especially at SI, often lead me off on detours that were entirely necessary, yet completely ignored by the schedule. These were usually things that I'd always just quietly done, or that blatantly needed doing, but that had never been acknowledged - writing them down felt like a good step towards presenting a case for them to actually be part of someone's schedule.

Beyond that, though, I also found it helpful as a way of focussing my thoughts on what had been done, what still needed doing, and specifically what to do next. For that reason, I think I'll try to continue the same thing now, even though I'm my own boss and essentially will just be talking to myself!

I'd be half tempted to make the diary public, but it might get a bit tricky if I have to refer to top secret new projects by code names (though on the other hand having fancy code names for everything would make me feel all grown-up and professional!). Of course there's also a more relevant point - who in their right mind would want to read them :)

I've got a lot to do, and fairly high on the list is sorting out this website.

As part of that, I'm toying with the idea of splitting my blog and more personal stuff off onto a separate site.

The blog has always nominally been called "born sleepy", which is why there's a link of that name at the top of the site.

If I do move the blog, it will probably get its own url: http://bornsleepy.elegantchaos.com. If this happens, the link to that at the top of the Elegant Chaos site will change accordingly.

I'll also try to make sure that links to old articles continue to do the right thing - though whether I'll move them and redirect, or just leave them where they are, is undecided at this stage.