[End of the Week] 11 April 2010 April 11, 2010
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- Tremendous Teas and Bold Teas [weburbanist]
- Ignite Law Videos
- To-dos: effective use of the post it note [Work|Effective]
- 8 ways to get in shape [Life Optimizer]
- Podcast: top 10 things annoying speakers do [communication steroids]
- 1 Hour guide to Cleaning your entire house [useful things]
[End of the Week] 4th April 2010 April 4, 2010
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It’s April and it is Easter Sunday – lots of chocolate today, yum! This week’s collection of goodies is as follows:
- Lists, Lists Everywhere [plannerisms]
- Mid-day workouts [Corporette]
- via Practical Paralegalism – Facebook friending around the office [the lawyerist]
- Did you get your message across? [Communication Steroids]
- UK Blawg Roundup Easter 2010 [peninsulawyer]
- Sisters are doing it for themselves [totally legal]
- April Fools Day [Lowering the Bar]
- Commuting [the frontal cortex]
[End of the Week] 28th March 2010 March 28, 2010
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- E-sign your name [Peninsulawyer]
- Pocket to-do [Lifehacker]
- French Connection: Google’s Adwords Clipped by Louis Vuitton [Legal Bytes]
- The most useful blackberry productivity apps [useful things]
- Part-time and partnership bound? [totally legal]
- The importance of not being called the wrong name [corporette]
- Minxy has returned [Lawminx]
- Last Day: Daycraft giveaway [notesinabook]
[End of the Week] 14th March 2010 March 14, 2010
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Mother’s day today. of course my mother is holidaying in sunnier climes so no actual celebration. Spent the day watching the Formula 1 and various movies that have been on the TV all day – how lazy of me. If you too, like me are having a lazy day, be sure to catch up on some reading of from this week.
- How to make an impression in 25 ways [Dragos Roua]
- The 22 Minute Meeting [Scott Berkun]
- 31 things you can do in a minute or less [Small Notebook]
- Check your laptops at the door [Young Lawyers Blog]
- more on the Teletubby Eco-Home [The Planning Blog]
- Unsalaried positions - the legal position [MAB Law]
- 50 little things you can do to empower other people [Life Optimizer]
[End of the Week] 7th March 2010 March 7, 2010
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Another bunch of links of stuff I read this week and would like to share:
- How to handle a Narcissist [webworkerdaily]
- 1 Chicken, 17 Healthy Meals, $26 Bucks, No mayo [Cheap Healthy Good]
- How to: Easily download all the photos you are tagged in on facebook [MakeUseOf]
- 100 useful Social Networks for Job Seekers [College Times]
- 6 Surefire ways to fail at your next interview [workawesome]
- How to ride your bike to work [Sietch]
[End of the Week] 28th February 2010 February 28, 2010
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Another month drawing to a close as I write this weekly round up of things that have caught my eye over the past week. Unfortunately BT messed up my internet connection again, so there wasn’t as much browsing as perhaps I would have liked.
- Looking for the 25th hour? Time Saving Strategies [Corporette]
- The Remixable textbook [Open Culture] – Neat idea, although I would still stand by my own method of writing your own textbook.
- Open 24 hours, are you to accessible to your clients? [The Nutmeg Lawyer]
- Calendar or To-do list? Two task management tools compared [WorkAwesome]
- 101 Alternatives to becoming a Solicitor [Trainee Solicitor Surgery]
- Scams, Claims and Twitter games [Peninsulawyer]
[End of the Week] 21st February 2010 February 21, 2010
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Unfortunately I didn’t get to do one of these postings last week as my internet decided to go down for like a week. So here are some of the things that have been keeping me entertained since my last end of the week post:
- Second Hand Smoke Lawsuit – against a real estate agent (US)
- No longer just for women? Will flexitime be the Recession’s legacy? [TimesOnline]
- Feeling hungry and cold? Try Fiona Beckett’s Cheese and Onion Soup or Chicken Palava (African Peanut Stew) from Kayotic Kitchen.
- For the students out there: How to digitise your textbooks [Legal Geekery]
- The Sex and the City guide to blogging [Copyblogger]
- Product Photography and Styling [decor8 Blog]
- For the girls: Twitter Stockings [GadgetHer]
- Because we’ve been hit by the snow again: Simon’s cat in Snow Business [Pocket Blonde]
- Tintin falls foul of anti smoking laws in Turkey
- Horrible Histories Parody: “Had an Accident that wasn’t your fault?” [Overlawyered]
- Interview with Charlie Gilkey [Plannerisms]
My Weekly Goals:
- The Book: At work we had a second hand book sale – loads of crime thrillers, chick lit and books “of the movie” seem to to be the most popular choices among the staff. So I picked up a few. This week I read – girly book: “Husbands” (Adele Parks) which is about a women married to two men, her “husband” and one from her student days who has resurfaced as the boyfriend of her best friend. Predictable, but rather fun and easy to read.
- The Movie: Originally bought “Taken” to watch this week (originally planned for valentine’s day) but we never got round to watching it and watched some panel show instead. unfortunately this week has been very panel show orientated, and my boyfriend has also gone and purchased Sopranos complete boxset. So no movies this week. All very sad indeed. But since I watched three the previous week that’s okay.
End of the Week: 7th February 2010 February 7, 2010
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- Breakdown of LPC fees [Solicitr]
- Career Killer – Crying at Work [Bitter Lawyer]
- Office Worker Meltdown [Video]
- Another perspective of the Castle that was hidden in hay [treehugger]
- Ipad and E-textbooks [Out of the Jungle]
- A World of Connections [The Running Librarian]
- February’s creative experiments [Daisy Yellow]
- Award for Fight scene with a pen [Tiger Pens]
My Weekly Goals:
- The Book: The Rules of Work (Richard Templar)
- The Movie(s): Grease 2 and The Godfather.
End of the Week: 31st January 2010 January 31, 2010
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So the first month of the year has flown by. This week has been all about the Apple’s Ipad, which I’m sure needs no introduction. But here is what everyone else has been talking about this week:
- Atticus Finch, Friend or foe? [Property Prof Blog]
- Why Employer’s need a social media policy [Jobsworth]
- 10 Best Legal Writing Blogs [Going Paperless]
- What to wear to lunch with an Interviewer? [Corporette]
- Begin your work day at the end of it [WorkAwesome]
- Pocket Blonde blogs about a bouquet of notebooks . The Fabriano Bouquet is available in the UK from Art discount. Check out more of their fabulous notebooks here.
- Leather GTD Tabs [Scription]
- Make a cheap drawer organiser [Lifehacker]
- New February Planners Available [Productive Flourishing]
My Weekly Goals:
- The book: How to feel confident – Leil Lowndes – a waste of my time. I may be shy, but all of this I knew. General common sense. The book didn’t really inspire or give motivation to get you out of shyness, but instead, gave stories you could relate to, which in some ways made you think, well if everyone has these problems why do I even need to change.
- the movie: unfortunately lacked a new movie this week, Midsomer Murders took up usual film slot. Maybe I’ll watch Superman 3 tonight. Edit: Watched Superman 3, great fun, even if some graphics / special effects were cringeworthy. Also, worth it for the glance of Larry Lamb playing a miner.
- the mac: trying out iwork this week. will keep you posted.
- the recipes: tonight is our first roast dinner taken from Rachel Allen’s Home cooking programme which we watched yesterday.
End of the Week: 17th January 2010 January 17, 2010
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In reflection I find that it has been a quieter week, busy in real life, quiet on the internet front (maybe the two are interlinked). In what must surely be one of the last 2009 round-up posts Eric Goldman has put together a fantastic list of the top cyberlaw developments over the past year. Also to round off the its-a-new-year hysteria here is a collection of wonderfully innovative calendars to draw some inspiration from if the last of the snow fall has put your calendar shopping on hold. Fantastic designs for inspiring creativity whether you are in the market for a calendar or not.
Part of my huge list of New years resolutions has been to eat more healthily at work. Issues being lack of time and the fact that I leave the house at 5.30am when I am half asleep. Corporette had a good post this week: what to eat when you have no time to eat summing up my current situation perfectly and providing me with some ideas and comments that are worth digging into.
On another topic, inspired most likely by recent snowfall are the posts championing working from home, (at least every once in a while) – covered brilliantly both by Jason Plant and Peninsulawyer – I can totally relate to the advantages of this after wasting 5 hours trying to get into work on my worst day only to not make it.
Aside from the legal / working related stuff other points of interest this week have been the shocking tale from Kim of face me, I read lips who expanded on her fear of phones and people’s lack of understanding about those who are deaf / HOH. A story I can relate to. I also finally got round to watching the trailer for the lovely bones, fantastic book, but I am a bit doubtful about the success of the movie. It’s not got a lot of attention, so far. I don’t know if it’ll be a big enough movie to be released as an accessible film with subtitles so may have to wait for dvd release. What else have I been talking about this week? Well I finally got my new diary (well one of them) and tried out a new set of notebooks (black toast a6 set of three).
My Weekly Goals:
- the book: Queuing for Beginners – Moran has taken simple everyday things that you normally wouldn’t give a second thought and made them an interesting talking point. Particular enjoyed learning about things like letter writing and the history of the full english breakfast. Would recommend.
- the movie: Kiss the Girls is a psychological thriller, based on the book of the same name (which I haven’t read unfortunately despite having read other Patterson books) and stars the never changing morgan freeman in the lead role of Alex Cross. Very good and entertaining if a tad on the predictable side. Get it!!
- the Mac: Experimented with Things this week which in many ways is an over-complicated to do list with a hefty price tag (2 weeks free trial). Hold on while I get my 59p spiral notebook from Tescos and some stickies. But all things considered I have enjoyed using it.
- the recipe: bit of a disaster this week with my curry – unfortunately there was olives in the tinned tomatoes and this didn’t go down well.
