I wrote previously about David Seahs emergent task tracker, in short its pretty great.
I have taken the next step, and am actually using it! I’m pretty happy, i think i would modify the form a bit to include client codes, and different colours for different types of tasks, or perhaps days…
I’m putting more than one day on a sheet, so that introduces some issues, and i’m working on a 3×5 version for my fancy new circa binder.
I wont re-write what David has to say , so go here and read about it. In short you write your task on the left, and colour in the little 15 minute interval bubbles, makes time tracking much less onerous to capture, then you just have to worry about it come report time.
Mostly now i just write about David Seah… 
I’ve created some forms and such for tracking exercise at the gym, I’ll post those up shortly. They are 3×5 and go into my circa binder.
It’s the new year, time to move our ‘current files’ into the archive.
It’s a good change to re-organize your files and documents, find all those errant bills/receipts/tax forms.
Lots of envelopes later, we have a clear ‘current’ filing cabinet, i got a bunch of new highlighters and sharpies, and we can file this stuff away confident that we’ll find it when necessary.
For months I’ve fretted over all the paperwork that is no use, but has lots of my personal info on it, not the least of which is the ‘credit card cheques’ they keep sending. I don’t want it, but it is essentially a direct line to my credit card. So I bought a cross cut shredder today, it’s great and I’ve been happily shredding for 30 minutes now.
And I bought an inbox.
So, if you’ve setup wordpress on your own server you’ve probably seen this
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL”
Terrible. really terrible.
So, this is what I’ve done several times to make it work, and it does appear to work.
Environment
Server 2003, IIS, PHP 5+, wordpress some version (1.5 + i think)
This assumes your php is up and running , do a phpinfo to ensure it is.
steps:
1. add php to your path
2. ensure that “extension=mysql.so” and “extension=mysqli.so” are uncommented in your php.ini
3. ensure both of those files actually are in your php /ext directory
4. ensure the ‘ext_dir‘ path is set to the full directory path to php/ext in your php.ini eg:"c:\php\ext"
5. ensure the iis user (internet guest account and iis_wpg) have read priveleges to your php directory
6. add an environment variable “PHPRC” with the value of your php directory , this is key
—update—
EVeryone feels a reboot is required, I expect restarting the www service would do the trick as well
6.5 restart the www service
————-
7. shazaam.
You can read through the mess of inane oppinions here
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/37800
some of them are good, most are nonsense (see ‘just use php4′)