Messy Office

This is an archive of all of our site's past entries in the Messy Office category. Click on a title to read the full entry.

Growing into the leader

Getting to the heart of the matter.
No matter how much circling around we do, when we finally hit spot on the bulls eye, a satisfying “a-ha!” is sure to follow. The other day at an initial client appointment, I heard plenty of circling. He was saying things like, “I’ve been working like this for […]

The final Clean Desk Challenge!

Bad news and good news on this final evening of the Clean Desk Challenge. Now that I have my bluetooth sync-ing capability, the photos aren’t transferring to the laptop. Nor is a repaired or replaced Nikon back in these hands. That leaves me essentially camera-less as far as the blog is concerned. Which is bad […]

Clean Desk #19, aka, is a clean desk a symptom of a sick mind?

That’s what “they” say, anyways. Let’s see what a Google search turns up, shall we?
Search: clean desk symptom sick mind
Lanfranco Muzi of Italy (and now of Oregon) uses the phrase, “A clean desk is the symptom of a sick mind…” as something of a tagline on his website. Mind you, this isn’t a blog but […]

Clean desk #18 + Bluetooth headset

Just for fun (is this what she does for fun?!?!!? Yikes!), in the spirit of the Clean Desk Challenge, I cleared off the digital desktop as well as the glass desktop tonight:
   
What you can’t quite make out next to the phone is a bluetooth headset which got connected to the new Treo yesterday […]

More Palm Treo pros/cons and Clean Desk Challenge report #17

Slightly blurry–having some light/exposure issues with the new Palm camera.
Have a few things to add to the like/dislike list for the new Palm Treo 755p:
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A kind reader wrote in and got me to look at the search function again in the Contacts mode. Turns out I have to push the alternate function key button […]

New Palm Treo captures the clean desk

Quandary. I wanted to include a picture of my new phone in this Clean Desk Challenge report #16. However, my new phone is also my current photo taking device.
After months of moving in this direction, getting a “smartphone” finally moved high enough on the priority list to happen. I got a Palm Treo 755p […]

Clean Desk Challenge report #15

I was out of town without the second brain (i.e. laptop) over the weekend, hence no clean desk report. I was in Oakland, California for the 20th Anniversary party for the Celebrator Beer News journal. More specifically, I was helping out with a silent auction that raised funds for the California Small Brewers Association […]