Last week, Paul preached on James 1:19-27. Shows what you can do in under half an hour.

It's addressed, naturally, to a church-going audience. Readers who aren't Christians might find it interesting, if not quite as affecting.

• Transporter 3 is a much better film than Transporter 2.
• But the great thing about the first Transporter was its quirky originality.
• Wolverine looks better than any of the X-Men films, at least from the trailer.
• Will Nicolas Cage please stop?

I saw the trailer to Watchmen last night, and I have to admit that it looks pretty good.

However.

If you are capable of reading, I strongly urge you to read the book before the film comes out. This isn't Lord of the Rings, it's a graphic novel of under …

Great sermon tonight.

Am getting a little bit bored of being asked whether I'm new — it's been a year now.

In the last twelve months, from memory:

• Broken ceramic soap dish
• Broken light shade
• Lost hotel key
• Lost credit card
• Lost power board
• Lost US adapter
• Waterlogged shoes
• Lost moleskine
• Shirt left in hotel room
• Lost wallet (found again, minus cash)
• Lost wiimote and wii nunchuck
• Missed flight to Hobart …

Principles of the American Cargo Cult: "An ugly image means a bad mirror".

I like this a lot. I don't think the "American" bit is particularly fair: this is common to most Anglo cultures, I think.

Thanks Paul!

I read a little bit of Making It All Work last night. The first few pages are way too self-important and religious-sounding, which makes GTD look even more like a cult than it did before. Reading it, I could hear Anthony Baxter shouting "It's just a todo list" in my …

Seth Godin has some ideas. What do you think?

I just got back from playing squash with Martin. We were very closely matched today, but sadly not closely enough. I am now very tired, and would like to eat a lot of Kentucky Fried Chicken or perhaps a curry. I'm not going to do either of these things.

At the Customs House Library in Sydney, you might find a...

• Repeating video installations as art
• Creepy old guy watching videos of under-clothed young men
• Hacker
• Massive green art installation that might have been designed by Dr Suess
• Concierge
• Girl who's gone to sleep reading her book and will wake …

My organizational system lacked vitality last year. It was rarely consulted, tedious to look at and on the whole not very fun. Now that I'm somewhat back on top of things, I think I've identified the fundamental thing that I missed, the thing I needed to breathe life into the …

My "anywhere", "errands" and "phone" contexts are on my laptop, as well as my "someday/maybe" lists. That means if I don't have my laptop with me, I can't easily churn through my list of phone calls to make. If I do have my laptop with me, which is more …

I'm back in Sydney and well and truly into a working mindset. I might talk about some of the stuff that happened over the holidays, but first I have a bug to report in my own organizational system.

At the moment, all of my projects and next actions live together …

... which means, a logical sounding explanation for doing something that you would do anyway. Or a phrase.

For example,

"Oh, I always buy the yellow ones," he said, "they're better at catching flies." But actually, he buys them because that's what his mum always bought when he was a kid …

You probably know by now that I work on Launchpad, and that I help make Launchpad and the version control tool Bazaar play nicely together.

But if you aren't a programmer, neither of those sites are going to help you much in your never-ending quest to understand what it is …

I've just done something that's rare for me: I've read two non-fiction books in a row.

The first is The Reason for God, by Tim Keller. This is a very good book that opens with a quote from Darth Vader and then quickly settles into calm reason that actually listens …

I haven't posted for a bit and I don't intend to post again for a while. I'm comfortable with my thinking being sub-coherent for now.

I was toying around with an idea for a short fantasy-genre story called "A guy with a sword" last night and thinking about how (if at all) it should be influenced by my own Australian nature.

But then I was thinking, have swords ever been a big deal here? Are …

I've had a cold this week and I'm getting the cough I get after I get colds of this kind. My right arm feels like it has been twisted backwards in my right arm socket. The days are getting warmer and muggier and the nights aren't cold enough to let …

So, the idea behind the page 56 thing is to get the book nearest you, not the smartest one or the one you're reading or the one with the best line. That's what -- oh my, a car crash -- my last post was about. Still, I came across this in The …