May 2006

I recently received an email inquiry about how to go to the Galapagos Islands on a budget. I have an Ecuadorian friend that has worked on a cruise ship that frequented the islands, as well as a friend that purportedly made the trip on a budget. Perhaps the most relevant fact though is that I’m now (relatively) close to the islands and therefore have more immediate access to the kind of first person local information one needs to get informed about a place; not to mention that I myself was curious to find out if such a thing as “Galapagos on a Budget” even exists. Below is a copy of what I was able to find out and send in reply to the recent inquiry…

Technorati Tags: budget, galapagos, ecuador, travel

I´ve recently been given some web design projects to work on for the next few weeks while in Ecuador. So today as i am getting back into the swing of work I somehow became distracted (for better or worse, is still to be determined) by this new thing floating around the web being blogged, highly praised and supported mainly by the mac geek / programmer / web designer / blogger crowd. Its commonly tagged as GTD which stands for a productivity technique coined by David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. There’s lots of support and ideas (AJAX websites (like 43folders.com, downloadable software plugins to your favorite apps such as “Kinkless”) popping up around the idea, and incase you dont want to buy the book you can get an idea of what its all about from the MineZone site’s notes from the book. I have particularly picked up on the idea of the formalized idea about a hipster pda and found some useful cutout templates to printout and use on index cards, to get organized, motivated, and productive.