What I had to do to get it to work:
- sudo apt-get install python-gdata
- sudo apt-get install python-webkit
- sudo apt-get install python-feedparser
I really like BloGTK as a quick blog posting app. Maybe I haven’t searched much for these things, but BloGTK seems to be the only one that allows you to set the category.
When I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10, BloGTK stopped working. It would complain about missing modules. These are python module and can be installed like so:
- sudo apt-get install python-[module name]
I’ve been struggling with trying to password protect documents so that they can’t be opened without the password but I finally found the solution.
Go to file >> save as, and mark the checkbox that says “save with password”.
There’s another option under Tools >> Protect, but that just protects the document from being modified without a password. It doesn’t stop users from viewing it.
Some tasks can be done all in a row. It’s best to set aside a block of time and do all of those tasks at once because that’s usually more time efficient.
Here’s the reason: Whenever you have to do a new task, you have to mentally switch gears, and physically set things up. For example, if you’re painting a fence, you have to get your paint and brushes, get your painters tape, and plan out the best way to paint. All this preparation takes time, but if you do all the boards of the fence in a row, you only have to do this preparation once. If you painted one board every day, the preparation time would make your long-term time cost much higher.
Some tasks have to be done as a daily chore, but for other tasks, doing a lot of similar tasks in a row works better.
Here’s an example from my life: I have to post weekly announcements and what not in my online classrooms. At first, I was doing this as a weekly chore. It wasn’t a lot of work, but it always seemed like such a chore to have to stop what I was doing to do these little things. Now, I’ll put together the weekly announcements for the entire semester and post them all at once. It’s a much higher cost of time upfront, but over the long run, it works out well. I no longer have to worry about doing some of these little chores so I can focus on things that matter more.
Work smarter not harder is a phrase that has great appeal to me. I love finding that clever trick, loophole, or easy way out that lets me get more done with less work. But sometimes working smarter is dumb because it takes more time to figure out the "smart" way than to get get stuff done.
When I was a kid, I’d watch a cartoon on TV called Duck Tales. It was pretty awesome.
In one episode, Scrooge McDuck explained that the secret to his success was working smarter, not harder. He shared a flashback about the time he got a job working shoveling coal into a steam engine. To work smarter, he built a mechanical contraption that shoveled coal while he powered it by peddling a stationaly bike.
What they didn’t show was all the hours spent designing, building, and troubleshooting this contraption. In real life, this would be a significant time cost. In the meantime, he would have been shoveling no coal at all and may have been fired before he could get his machine running. And it may never have worked the way he wanted.
So when deciding whether to work smart, or just get things done, you have to try to figure out which one is going work out best in the long run. If you just need to label a dozen thank-you cards, it’s probably better to do this by hand than to write a program that does this for you. But if you have to label a few thousand cards, the program is probably the way to go.
When you have a lot of tasks to do, it’s better to do the same simple task over and over again and then switch over to the next task than it is to do a sequence of different tasks over and over again.
Henry Ford figured this out when he created his assembly lines. There, workers did the same small task over and over again. As the car moved through the line, new workers did the next task. Ultimately, a complete car would come out the end of the line.
This works well because workers don’t lose time while they mentally and physically transition from one task to the next. A lot of time can be lost doing this. Workers also had the chance to become extremely proficient at a task.
If given the task of building 50 cars, most people intuitively think of building one car, then building the next and the next. But if you had the space for it, it would be much better to lay out 50 spaces to work on each car, and do one task at a time. I.e. put all 50 chassis together, install all 50 engines, install tires on all 50 cars, etc.
Think about doing this with the tasks you have to perform in life.
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