Smashing Magazine issued a challenge where they want you to draw something for about 15 minutes every day. While basically impossible because we all have better things to do. I accept the challenge because I want to do at least my best. For myself. I tweet once a week with my results (to not clutter up my twitter stream) And try to remember to publish the results in a blog post once a week or month too. This is the first week, but I have already cheated.

I have tried various things last year, sorta, to get rid of the habit of buying what I like to call ‘the fast food of drinks’, your standard cans of cola, bottles of soda, dr peppers, etc. This post is about why I picked water, but that I am not giving up on the rest cold turkey.

Once in a while I do something to improve my life, such as changing what I do, what I eat, how I live, etc. I do this with a test from Monday to Friday, and if I like it, extend this later in the year to a month. And perhaps make it a default behavior in the new year. It’s now a new year and one of those tests was a bottle of water every day. Instead of whatever I used to drink.

With great feedback from my friends regarding this blog article I wrote: Organizing my todo list, I have decided to share a dirty little secret: I use a real notepad (too).

The first tweet digest of this year. Week1. Archiving what twitter deletes in 3200 tweets from now.

Usually our winters mean a day of snow, and a week of cold weather with ice like rain and quite windy. But this time around we had a few weeks of snow, and it’s still snowing and freezing at night. Resulting in beautiful weather like this morning.

Syncing data between computers isn’t the only problem we’ve been fighting in the last few decades using them, but also sharing this data (socially) between friends has been at least uncomfortable. DropBox is a cross computer cloud solution that helps you do just that. But you have a quota, and you might need a backup.

Quite some years now it has been on my agenda to make and find time to do what needs to get done. And I have improved this using the right organizational tools, using an approach to project management that works, and by simply .. doing it. While not always perfect. Workflow and productivity have improved by at least 40%. That’s not 50% and this is where 2010 comes in. The next step: Going offline to do more online.

Last tweets of the year!

I haven’t been an active blogger during December, but for a reason. Stress, but also happy times. Busy with social things online and offline. And I want a tiny break until January 2010.