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Music 101: Singing In Harmony.

In this video episode, Greg Giles and Kelly Atkins from 20 Minute Loop look at vocal harmony, and the myriad ways two singers can harmonize a line: tutti, contrary motion, call and response, counterpoint and more. We also discuss the well-known artists who use these harmonizing styles.

http://blog.pandora.com/archives/show/2008/04/music_101_singi.html

Wikipedia to MP3

MP3 and podcasts automatically generated from Wikipedia articles!

Stefanos Karagos | January 23, 2008.

Learning during jogging and driving? E-learning and m-learning with MP3 players and mobile phones? In these cases, Pediaphon which is a text to speech online service that generates a mp3 from any Wikipedia article, will make the job for you! A podcast and a winamp playlist will be generated too. Let your PC read out the Wikipedia for you!

mGTD

for Moleskine v1.0

Stefanos Karagos | December 20, 2006.

Well, it’s time for a new version of GTD for Moleskine system. The paper system that you can use it with your Moleskine, everyday! Mr Michael Ramm, one of the men behind the great Black Belt Productivity is the “godfather” of the new name of GTD for Moleskine system! We had a great email exchange all these days and I have to admit that Mr Black Belt Productivity is a brilliant and very creative man! Michael also gave me a lot of ideas and his contribution to this version was more than valuable!

Well the improvements from the first version are:

1. size has change so the color spread is the only thing that bleeds out of the Moleskine planner
2. Next Actions entries are 20 per page giving more space for writing
3. We made also some arrangement for “Some Day/maybe” and “Waiting for” fields
4. Now we have 3 different color versions: Orange, Red, Blue
5. Each page has crop marks for easy cutting
6. Each version has the main mGTD page and also 3 more back-page options:
   1. a daily scheduler,
   2. a contact names page and
   3. a landscape mindmap playground!

So now, you can have the mGTD sheet which fits better to your daily needs ;-) If you want to have an idea about the mGTD system, take a look at the following images: And if you are ready to use the mGTD v1.0 system here are the PDF files, ready for printing: mGTD Orange mGTD Red mGTD Blue

Hmmmm, I know that shapes with rounded corners are very popular, so I promise that the next version will be a more Web2-like, with more improvements too ;-) So use the current version, test it, comment about your experience of using this and… stay tunned! PS: Special thanks to Diana for her help to the mGTD project!

Periodic Review Lists

I recommend borrowing a concept from Sciral Consistency and put things into periodic review lists. @waiting, @waiting-weekly, and @waiting-monthly. This will take the somewhat distant items out of your immediate list, and force you to review things that are farther in the future from time to time.

When the time comes to pull it off the @waiting-monthly list and put it on the @waiting list, you can do that easily and it won’t be cluttering your @waiting list before it actually has to. Your @waiting list is uncluttered, and you’re still tracking things that you’re waiting for months from now. Problem solved.

If your life is much more complex than mine, you can create lists for future months @waiting-january, @waiting-february, etc. so you don’t have to review too many items at the end of each month. This is an added layer of complexity (finding a distant item now requires searching through 12 lists), so I only recommend it if you spend “way too much” time on your @waiting-monthly list each month.