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I’m sure that 2009 was the best year of my life, I’ve grown so much, learned many interesting shit and enjoyed life as never before. I’ve achieved almost total independence and I’m pretty happy with the results.

I’ll present you my list of goals for the year of 2010.

1. Pay more attention to egganomaly, i feel like i’m not giving 100%, i’ll try to write often.
2. Leave my parents house and buy or rent one for me.
3. Give my first professional presentation about Web.
4. Finish one of my main projects on hold, probably one connected with my home town.
5. Adopt a more minimalist lifestyle, i feel that I’ve too much things that I don’t need.
6. Design a new logo and template for egganomaly.
7. Travel every three months.
8. Bungee jumping and skydiving.
9. Read at least one book per month.
10. Go back to gym.

And what about your list? I Wanna see your priority goals for 2010.

This Christmas was very different from what it used to be, my family broke in two… i don’t really understood why. I had a sense of sadness like if i had missed something or someone. Regardless from that, some friends joined the traditional Christmas Dinner and Lunch and i’m very happy with that, hope they come next year.

The presents wasn’t anything special, common socks, pants, shirts and other unusual things like a “Ring For Sex” Bell. Because i’m going to London next month my parents gave me money to support the trip.

I really hope that all my family rejoined in the next year.

Merry Christmas for you all.

I hate people who stop think of me as a human being.

As many of you know I’m a travel addicted, i can’t stay too long in the same place, so some times I’ve to travel. I’m a very adventure person and I love to learn about other cultures.

Like in the past years in January I travel to England, I love that country, principally London. My journey will start in Sesimbra, I’ll go by car to Setúbal, then i’m taking a train to FARO where I’ll embark on a plane to London(Stansted). I’ll stay in London four days, from 13 to 17, in my cousin house, she has a couch where I can sleep and that’s enough.

This time I’ll stay all the time in London, I want to visit some museums, watch some shows and probably any photography expositions available at that time. I’m thinking if i’ll ride the London Eye, i’m not sure yet.

In 17 January I’ll travel to Glasgow, where I’ll visit other part of my very big family. They live near Edinburgh, but since the flights to Glasgow are very cheap there’s no other best choice. They’ll take me at the airport so I’ll not spend any money in transportation to Edinburgh. I want to visit the Edinburg Dungeon, I’ve been there in 2006 and loved it! Its very dynamic, you follow a story and discovery dark secrets from the past. It’s not that scary but its a cool place to go.

The returning will be in 20 January, a sad day i presume.

The planning is not complete, I’m searching for cool places to go where I haven’t been yet.

With me I’ll bring Sofia Mendonça, an outstanding interior designer who enjoys life as i do. I’m very pleased that she goes with me.

This is probably my most inexpensive travel of all time, I’m spending only the necessary to reach places. Using less luggage is a bonus. Staying in family/friend houses is the best option ever, sure you’ll have less privacy but is a low price to pay for a 100% free bed.

I’ll take my Canon 5D with me, surely I’ll take a zillion photos

If you have a good suggestion leave a comment, thanks.

There are hundreds of books and resources available on the topic of breaking up with a love interest. There are even ones exploring the topic of breaking off a toxic friendship and dumping bad business relationships. But, I have yet to find anything out in the ether on how to kick a hobby to the curb. Noting that, I proclaim this Unclutterer entry as the authoritative work on breaking up with a hobby (I’m a little goofy this morning, just go with it). I call it:

You’re Just Not That Into Your Hobby

Do you consider yourself a tennis player, but the last time you touched your racket was when Bill Clinton was president? Do you like the idea of being a scrapbooker but have never made a complete scrapbook? Are you keeping canvases for masterpieces you may one day paint, yet all of your paints are dried and your brushes deteriorating? Is your guitar missing strings and in a case at the back of a closet? Do you have areas of your home set aside or filled with stuff related to a hobby that you spend less than 10 hours on a year?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you are just not that into your hobby.

It can be difficult to admit, but if you’re not averaging at least an hour a month pursuing a hobby, it’s time to let it go. The space you’re sacrificing in your home is too valuable to store things you don’t use. If you don’t have storage issues, it’s still worthwhile to get rid of your unused hobby stuff. Every time you walk past it I bet you think, “I wish I had more time to do X.” You don’t need that stress and guilt. If it were really important to you, you would pursue it.

Five steps for deciding if now is the time to ditch your hobby:

1. Identify all of your hobbies and all of the things associated with them in your home, garage, and office. You may benefit by collecting these items and laying them all out in your front yard or an open space in your home to see how much space you’re sacrificing.
2. List all of these hobbies and then estimate how much time you’ve spent pursuing each of them in the last 12 months. Be honest with yourself.
3. Any hobby with an estimation of 10 hours or less should immediately be moved out of your home. Pack up the equipment and head to a used sports equipment store or an appropriate charity. If the hobby stuff is valuable, photograph it and list it for sale on a site like ebay or craigslist.
4. Any hobby with an estimation of 24 hours or less should be carefully reviewed. If you went camping one day last year, you would reach the 24-hour mark for camping as a hobby. However, is one day of camping worth all of the space used to store your tent, sleeping bag, and all other accoutrements? On the flip side, if you spent one Friday night a month last year playing Bridge with friends and averaged about two hours of playing time a sitting, it’s probably worthwhile to hold onto a deck of cards.
5. Any hobby with an estimation of more than 24 hours also should be considered for review. You may realize that you’re spending so much time and space on your hobby that you’re neglecting things more important in your life, like time with your spouse or children. It’s okay to break up with these hobbies, too. In most cases, however, you probably have a healthy relationship with your active hobbies and you’ll decide to keep up with them. You still will want to evaluate how much stuff you have for them. If you have more supplies than you could use in a lifetime associated with that hobby, it’s time to weed through the collection of stuff. My rule of thumb is that you should never have more than one year’s worth of supplies for an intense hobby — and less than that if you can manage.

There is a caveat to my assumption that you’re just not that into your hobby that I feel I should mention as a footnote. The truth may be that you really like your hobby, but somewhere along the way you misappropriated your time and let it fall by the wayside. Instead of making chairs in your woodworking studio, you’ve been watching television. If this is the case, make new priorities and recommit to your hobby. Turn off the t.v. and head to your studio. Decide to re-evaluate that hobby in six months. If in six months, however, you’re still watching t.v., then it’s time to admit that watching t.v. is your hobby not woodworking.

via unclutterer.com

This is a set of graphics that represents the world statistics if the world population were 100. The creator of this project is Toby who graduated in graphic design from Central St. Martins, london in 2008. He do photography and illustrations. You can find some of his job in National Portrait Gallery in London.

This is a self-initiated project based on the scenario – If the world were a village of 100 people. There are a few different versions of this text in circulation about the world’s statistics. I found the data very striking and neatly summarises the world that we live in. So I used information graphics to re-tell the story in another creative way. I designed a set of 20 posters, which contain most of the information. I used simple vector graphics that related to a statistic in order to present the information in the simplest and most accessible way.

You can found the other graphics here.

Too often we get stuck in inaction — the quagmire of doubt and perfectionism and distractions and planning that stops us from moving forward.

And while I’m no proponent of a whirling buzz of activity, I also believe people get lost in the distractions of the world and lose sight of what’s important, and how to actually accomplish their Something Amazing.

And so today I’d like to humbly present a few little rules of action — just some small reminders, things I’ve found useful but by no means invented, common-sense stuff that is often not common enough.

1. Don’t overthink. Too much thinking often results in getting stuck, in going in circles. Some thinking is good — it’s good to have a clear picture of where you’re going or why you’re doing this — but don’t get stuck thinking. Just do.
2. Just start. All the planning in the world will get you nowhere. You need to take that first step, no matter how small or how shaky. My rule for motivating myself to run is: Just lace up your shoes and get out the door. The rest takes care of itself.
3. Forget perfection. Perfectionism is the enemy of action. Kill it, immediately. You can’t let perfect stop you from doing. You can turn a bad draft into a good one, but you can’t turn no draft into a good draft. So get going.
4. Don’t mistake motion for action. A common mistake. A fury of activity doesn’t mean you’re doing anything. When you find yourself moving too quickly, doing too many things at once, this is a good reminder to stop. Slow down. Focus.
5. Focus on the important actions. Clear the distractions. Pick the one most important thing you must do today, and focus on that. Exclusively. When you’re done with that, repeat the process.
6. Move slowly, consciously. Be deliberate. Action doesn’t need to be done fast. In fact, that often leads to mistakes, and while perfection isn’t at all necessary, neither is making a ridiculous amount of mistakes that could be avoided with a bit of consciousness.
7. Take small steps. Biting off more than you can chew will kill the action. Maybe because of choking, I dunno. But small steps always works. Little tiny blows that will eventually break down that mountain. And each step is a victory, that will compel you to further victories.
8. Negative thinking gets you nowhere. Seriously, stop doing that. Self doubt? The urge to quit? Telling yourself that it’s OK to be distracted and that you can always get to it later? Squash those thoughts. Well, OK, you can be distracted for a little bit, but you get the idea. Positive thinking, as corny as it sounds, really works. It’s self-talk, and what we tell ourselves has a funny habit of turning into reality.
9. Meetings aren’t action. This is a common mistake in management. They hold meetings to get things done. Meetings, unfortunately, almost always get in the way of actual doing. Stop holding those meetings!
10. Talking (usually) isn’t action. Well, unless the action you need to take is a presentation or speech or something. Or you’re a television broadcaster. But usually, talking is just talking. Communication is necessary, but don’t mistake it for actual action.
11. Planning isn’t action. Sure, you need to plan. Do it, so you’re clear about what you’re doing. Just do it quickly, and get to the actual action as quickly as you can.
12. Reading about it isn’t action. You’re reading an article about action. Ironic, I know. But let this be the last one. Now get to work!
13. Sometimes, inaction is better. This might be the most ironic thing on the list, but really, if you find yourself spinning your wheels, or you find you’re doing more harm than good, rethink whether the action is even necessary. Or better yet, do this from the beginning — is it necessary? Only do the action if it is.

via zenhabits.net

Nice campaign for the delivery service that is free now. Hope they turn this service free soon in Portugal, here we have to pay 80€ for the delivery. I’ll buy new furniture for my room this month and it will be a bonus if i dont have to carry everything on my car.

Hi guys,

As some of you know the egganomaly project stopped months ago, my friends and collegues from egganomly had no more time to post in the blog. Then i started a sub-blog for myself, the josepereira.egganomaly.net, where i’ve been posting for the last 9 months. have been very good times, i enjoyed every moment i spent writing to the blog and answering the comments and emails.

But today everything changed.

I’ve decided to take egganomaly to life again. From now on i’ll write everything here, no more josepereira.egganomaly.net, now is just egganomaly.net. Don’t forget that this will be a one man team only with some guest posts in the middle.

Hope you guys like the decision i made, its easier for you to remind the URL, and you must agree with me its a catchy name.

Farewell

Sebastian Campion, a Danish designer created the project Urban Cursor, the object was placed on a square in Figueres, Catalunya during the cultural festival Ingràvid.  The cursor is a GPS enabled object designed to facilitate social interaction and play in public space. This is a 3-dimentional computer cursor that people can sit and play and move around the world.

The GPS transmitted its geographic coordinates to a website, at the website, the coordinates were mapped in Google Maps.

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