Tag Archives: Practical

Diving Into Something New

Posted on 12.09.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Pour se familiariser avec un sujet nouveau, il faut lire, et même si on ne comprend pas tout, continuer à lire. Au bout d’un moment, les choses commencent à tomber en place, et on peut reprendre avec plus de succès … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged agile, Education, experience, Geek / Technical, learning, method, Practical, read, reading, Theories, Thinking, understanding | Leave a comment

CASH Cards and Cellphone Train Tickets

Posted on 06.03.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]En Suisse, on a la carte CASH (avec laquelle je paie parcomètres, billets de bus, et parkings souterrains), le numéro court 222/999 pour recevoir les horaires de train par SMS, et maintenant les billets de train par MMS (pour certains … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged barcode, card, cash, cashcard, cellphone, cff, debit, horaire, maestro, mms, mobile, Practical, sbb, sms, suisse, switzerland, Technology, téléphone, ticket, timetable, train | 15 Comments

On the Road to Being a Healthier Geek

Posted on 25.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Il y a un mois environ, une petite conversation avec mon médecin a eu des conséquences remarquables sur mon mode de vie: je mange plus équilibré (pas dur de faire mieux que le régime pizzas) je me déplace plus souvent … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Health, My corner of the world | Tagged commute, commuting, cycling, diet, doctor, eating, Essay-Like, exercise, fish, food, foodpyramid, fruit, geek, Health, healthy, lausanne, lifehacks, lifestyle, meat, omega-3, Pieces of Me, Practical, snacks, Thinking, unhealthy, vegetables, walking | 16 Comments

Je passe à Orange Maxima

Posted on 15.02.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]I’ve switched to a flat fee mobile phone subscription. A good investment for the money saved by cancelling my land line.[en]Voilà, c’est fait. Hier, j’ai appelé Orange (et on m’a répondu sans que je doive attendre) pour passer au nouveau … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged Practical, switzerland | 4 Comments

Great Indian Food in Leeds

Posted on 19.12.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Maliks Restaurant est un excellent endroit où manger de la nourriture indienne à Leeds.[en]Besides telling you about an excellent place to eat Indian food in Leeds, let me try my hand at using the hReview plugin. ew, it breaks. Maybe … Continue reading →

Posted in Food, Travels | Tagged eat, england, excellent, food, indian, indianfood, leeds, maliks, maliksrestaurant, merrion, merrioncentre, positive, Practical, restaurant, review, Travels, uk, yorkshire | 6 Comments

Constat d’ordre

Posted on 19.11.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]The weak link in the “keep kitchen clean” workflow is the bin. A full bin means I have to take it out to the container. That tends to not happen, and therefore various types of clutter tend to accumulate.[fr]Le goulot … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged appartement, bin, cleaning, cuisine, kitchen, lifehacks, ménage, ordre, poubelle, Practical, ranger, Theories, trash, trashcan | 4 Comments

Skype: mon ordinateur comme centrale téléphonique

Posted on 18.11.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Get Skype. Get SkypeOut credit so that you can call normal phones. Get a SkypeIn number so that normal phones can call you, and cancel your landline if you’re paying anything for it. OSX people: if you’re into podcasting or … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged abonnement, ADSL, appels, apple, applications, câble, call, callrecorder, citycable, dashboard, enregistrer, Geek / Technical, internet, mac, messaging, mobile, orange, ordinateur, osx, phone, portable, Practical, programmes, recording, résiliation, skype, skypecaller, skypein, skypeout, sms, software, Software and Tools, swisscom, switzerland, téléphone, téléphonie, textos, voip, widget | 22 Comments

ADSL, bits et bytes

Posted on 04.11.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Don’t confuse bits and bytes like me. 1B (Byte) = 8b (bits). A 2000Kb/s DSL connection will only download 250KB/s, and that’s normal.[fr]Je viens d’apprendre quelque chose. Je sais que j’ai une ligne ADSL “2000/100″, ce que j’ai toujours traduit … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged ADSL, bandepassante, bandwidth, bit, bits, byte, bytes, connection, data, dsl, Geek / Technical, marketing, measurement, mesure, Practical, stockage, storage, unités, units | 14 Comments

Monthly/Weekly Calendar Improved

Posted on 21.08.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Une amélioration du planning que je me suis fabriqué. Les semaines sont verticales (plus logique vu que le temps file verticalement durant un jour). Il y a une version française en PDF.[en] I barely started using the calendar I created … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged agenda, calendar, diary, gtd, hebdomadaire, mensuel, monthly, organisation, planner, Practical, weekly | Leave a comment

Bridging the gap between me and orthodox GTD

Posted on 21.08.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Je note ici quelques divergences entre le système d’organisation que j’ai mis en place et ce que recommande directement le livre “Getting Things Done” (comme il ne semble pas qu’il existe en français, j’en parlerai — peut-être de vive voix … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged files, folders, gtd, hanging, lifehacks, organisation, Practical, reference | 8 Comments