I should pay more attention to my meeting wizard alerts. I love them. But I need to pay more attention to them.
Matt Maldre's Life List
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1. take a class
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2. start a webcomic
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3. Move my blog to drupal
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4. learn origami
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5. Make the shelf-rock outside the entrance to the Tribune Tower into my own gallery every Tuesday
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6. Transform my cubicle into a gallery every month
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7. Make more magic sticks
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8. Make more figures on swings
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9. Make more HDR photos
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10. make a photography book
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11. Play 25 different pinball machines
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12. watch a real badminton tournament live
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13. Go to Chicago Movies in the Park
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14. Ride to all stops of all the Chicago "L" lines
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15. In one day get off and on every Metra stop on one line
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16. memorize all the 2 and 3 letter words in scrabble
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17. Eat six saltine crackers under sixty seconds
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18. Install a nerf basketball hoop at work
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19. Try as many different kinds of hot chocolate Chicago has to offer
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20. find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
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21. Photograph the "gateway buildings" of Chicago
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22. Plant some buried treasure
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23. Become a checker ninja
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24. have an online Bible study group.
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25. learn to crack an egg in one hit
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26. Take more pictures
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27. Write more meaningful blog posts where I open up more about myself
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28. Take my favorite blog entries and make a book
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29. Play croquet with 100 different people
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30. Have everyone you know sign one baseball
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31. Use every word in the english language that starts with "mal" in my blog
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32. Sticker-bomb my co-workers
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33. create small pieces of art, and leave them for people to find
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34. Send more hand written letters and cards
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35. Learn 10 estonian words
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36. convince Matt Maldre to repost the cheer post-its
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37. Share what I learn at work every day
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How I did it: Just noticing the streets when i'm around town. Whether on the train or bus. Looking at maps. Man. I gotta write more about how I did this. Yeah, you just do it, yo. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Trying to keep my introvertedness in check. I try to reach out to people more, but I also realize my skills. I also pray to God for more empathy. INTJs can lack in compassion. I pray to God for more compassion. And it helps. Read how I did it…
How I did it: I leave sticky notes in places that start with the phrase, "I like" and then I write what I like. Look around and see what you like. Then write "I like this street lamp" and leave the sticky note on the street lamp. Take a photo to share! Read how I did it…
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1) Don’t back up before a busy day
When you are really busy at work, do not copy a ton of files to your external hard drive the night before. You think you are being efficient by organizing your files the night before a busy day, but that will actually slow you down.
On a Macintosh, when you move a bunch of files around, the computer needs to update its internal index of all the contents and locations of the files. The Mac does this in the background continually while you work.
This continual background updating will slow your computer down while you are trying to work.
2) Adobe Illustrator automatically embeds fonts
When you place an Illustrator file into Indesign, apparently you don’t need the fonts? It’s weird. I have an Illustrator file with fonts. When I open the Illustrator file, I need the fonts. But when I place that same illustrator file in Indesign, and then do a “package files” it doesn’t collect the fonts, because they are already embedded in the Illustrator file.
3)Act-On looks to be a good email marketing platform
I rarely ever answer my phone when I don’t recognize the number. But yesterday I was feeling daring, so I picked it up only to have someone trying to sell me something. I listened to his pitch for the first minute and then when he walked me through the demo, I was really impressed. I’m hoping that we can use Act-On at work to replace Eloqua and VerticalResponse.
1) Hosting
When putting together an RFQ (Request for Quote) to move a site from one CMS onto Drupal, it’s a good idea to mention where you’d like the site hosted. If you are self-hosting, include the server specs, so the web development agency knows if your hosting service can handle it.
2) Content Migration
A continuation of the first point, it’s also a good idea to ask for the content migration to be a line-item on the quote.
3) Adobe Application Manager
I knew this already, but as i’m setting up the computer for our summer intern, I’m reminded of how great the Adobe Application Manager is. It makes installing and upgrading all the Adobe apps so easy!
4) Lots of white papers from Content Marketing Institute.
I downloaded seven white papers read!
http://contentmarketinginstitute.com/education/white-paper-library/
5) Setting up a new computer for the summer intern takes some time
- Install Adobe apps
- Install Font Explorer Pro
- Install Text Wrangle
- Install Transmit
- Install Microsoft Office (tech did this for me)
- Setup email in Outlook
- Set up folders (like Marketing jobs folder)
- Set up server aliases
- Set up FTP log-ins in FTP program
- Set up Dreamweaver (FTP log-ins and site folders)
- Install fonts
- Set up font library to be consistent with my font library

