Paul Randall » twitter

The last part couldn’t be more true. With RSS feeds, Twitter and other social media, lots of time can be spent keeping up-to-date and researching – but it really boils down to procrastinating (postpone doing what one should be doing).

With the immediacy of these social media, links can come in at any time, easily distracting you away from the current task in hand. Staying ‘in the zone’ can be hard with tweets popping up and other distractions such as IM, text messages and phone calls; chances are you are reading this when something more important needs to be done.

The Solution

Taking a dedicated hour out of your day to deal with these can help alleviate this. You’d be surprised how non-urgent reading your tweets are when you don’t do it for a few hours.

So turn off your Twitter client, IM and sign out of anything which could ‘pop-up’ during your day and give it a go, perhaps taking time out in the morning and afternoon to check-up and see what’s gone on in the real world and see if your productivity increases.

August 2009 Wallpaper

Paul — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:36:29 +0000

My third wallpaper-of-the-month, and this time it has a Twitter theme. I have decided not to add a calendar to it (but if you object, please let me know, but it at least allows you to have the wallpaper for more than one month of the year)

Download august-2009.zip

In this design, I have used the classic Twitter colours of light blue and orange, whilst creating some simple cloud shapes, and the fonts are Caslon Pro for the main quote, and Chaparral Pro for the citation.

The wallpaper has a feint tiled brid graphic, and a little lens flare just behind the quote to add some focus.

I’ve just noticed this is another blue/orange combo, so I can assure you next month will be completely different!

The wallpaper dimensions in this months zip file are:

1024 x 768
1280 x 1024
1280 x 800
1440 x 900
1680 x 1050
1900 x 1200