It’s that time of the week again, and since my list for the weekly review was pretty slim, I thought I’d share one of my productivity gems. As the name suggest it’s a weekly process where the activities of the past week as well as the coming week is reviewed and processed.

The goal

Like a few of my other habits this one is an adoption of the Getting Things Done. It’s probably not following the recipe from the official GTD methodology, but it works for me. It’s a way to try to gain some control of the daily life and have a little stress-less workday.

So, I was actually using Microsoft Windows for quite a while. My first windows was Windows/286 which was nothing like the current Windows, but it was okay somehow. Today I just realized that I haven’t really been using Windows on any of my own machines and even though Vista was released three months ago, I haven’t seen it yet. It is sort of funny, but since switching to a Mac, I’ve been spending less time keeping the machine running – debugging, tweaking and doing other odd stuff – and more time doing actual fun work at the computer – like expanding my portfolio at istockphoto.

I hate comment spammers. I really do. The SCode captacha works, but the load the evil spammers create is pretty bad in itself. The comments were disabled a few hours, but they’re back now, after some counter measures has been applied.

In March 2003 I barked about a Meeting clock. It must be a great idea, when MAKE reference it and sort make it a reality almost 4 years after, right? – If you liked the Meeting clock, there probably are a few other inspirational toughts in the Project Management category, enjoy.

Through the mysql client:

update mysql.user set password=password('NEW_PASSWORD') where user='USERNAME' and host='HOSTNAME';
flush privileges;

Through the command line:

mysqladmin -u USERNAME -p CURRENT_PWD password NEW_PWD

Replace USERNAME, CURRENT_PWD and NEW_PWD with appropriate values.