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).

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.

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.

After a long night I went to bed, slept through the day and woke up in the evening. I had a pretty good appetite and after going through twitter, facebook, irc, skype and other instant msgs / social networks it was feed the belly time! Breakfast, at midnight, .. eggs in the basket.

No, I love coffee. And I enjoy expensive coffee at a local place that has a $5,000+ coffee machine and fresh beans, and all that. I am just a broke guy at home with a water boiler, big mug and some milk. Surely I can make good enough, but cheap, coffee. The “Floris” Coffee.

The tip of the day comes from continued frustration that a lot of site owners still want to have the most, the best, the fastest, without paying for it. And then realize they got what they paid for and can’t backup, can’t move, can’t do anything. Because they did not take their property serious enough to invest into a VPS or better hosting plan.

Oh boy how hard is it to organize your life, offline, online, projects, all the way from cleaning apartment, to handling start up company ideas. So much to do, so little time. Why waste spending time writing it down if you don’t organize it?