... and you have a personal account - and not a page - I will not only deny your friend request,

Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

- Jeff Richards

I think it's kinda sad that when my internet connection fails, I'm left in a pitch black hole from which I cannot come out of.

Normally, I have backup plans, but the internet dongle Tudor gave me has a strong personality and cannot be urged to work when I need it to, and I somehow managed to disconnect my phone from the internet and cannot, for the love of all things holy, get it to combe back online.

So I've been sitting, waiting, patiently you could say, to get back to work, get back in touch and reply to the now soaring mountains of emails labeled "Urgent" in my inbox.

I kinda talked about this need to be online of mine before, and even about what would happen if there were no more internets to go around.

How do you feel when you're offline and should be online? - 'cause I feel stranded.

I did get to do some gardening, though.

I read an interesting article this morning. In short, it says Google has trouble retaining its talented employees because it cannot GTD. The article points at Rasmussen leaving over Wave's termination, among others.

GTD (getting things done) was not the issue. GTD refers to something else, which is not a problem at Google. They managed to deliver the software. Ship it, if you will. They got the thing done. The problem was that the darn thing did not catch on. And the culprit? Why did Google Wave die?

Google either did not understand their users, or perspective users, and gave them something that they did not need or like to use OR Google ignored some of the user requirements. I'm thinking Google, who knows more about you than your English teacher failed to consider Google Wave's critical mass as important - I mean the number of people using the service in order to make it worth-while. Because Google Wave does seem like a fun product, and I remember the hype in the beginning, when everyone was struggling for an invitation.

I remember when I got my account, I was so happy! I logged in, smiled at the nice interface and asked myself: Now what? The place was just empty. I had nobody to start a wave with. I could not tell clients to wave together, because they more than surely did not have an account. Plus, it did not run right in Opera, but I was willing to use Chrome just to get a taste of that masterpiece of programming and UX.

So the real problem with Google Wave was not understanding the user base or not acting on that knowledge. I know I would leave a company like that one myself, and I cannot blame Rasmussen - whom I greatly admire as a developer.

Google's problem is not Getting Things Done, that's working great, actually. It's making them stick, surprisingly.

Edit: the article's link failed to get auto-parsed, so I replaced it with a shortened one.