Sitting in our library, doing a little work, listening to Barber’s Adagio for Strings and watching it snow is not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:55:42 -0500
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Sometimes, I stay too late at the office…
I went to the doctor today to have my blood pressure evaluated. As expected, it was very high. The doctor seems to think it’s mostly due to heredity, and some due to weight. I have an initial batch of medicine to start taking, and then I’m supposed to return to see her in a week to have it checked.
I’ve managed to dodge this for the past decade at least. My genes have finally caught up, it seems.
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Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:25:08 -0500
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A couple of weeks ago I started using Firefox as my primary browser. It rocks (even more so than Safari), but I have had one significant frustration. In my office, I use a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse. I’m very used to using the scroll wheel to not only scroll pages,
A couple of weeks ago I started using Firefox as my primary browser. It rocks (even more so than Safari), but I have had one significant frustration. In my office, I use a Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse. I’m very used to using the scroll wheel to not only scroll pages, but by clicking it to follow a link in a new tab. This works in Safari, but not in Firefox.
Fortunately, others have gone here before me. Here’s the scoop on getting an Intellimouse working right not just in Firefox, but throughout OS X.
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Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:25:39 -0500
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I have a not inconsiderably Amazon wish list. I use my wish list as a “holding area” for books, music, and movies I plan on eventually buying, though not always from amazon.
Unfortunately, this wish list isn’t easily portable, and of course I can’t remember everything on it when I’m
I have a not inconsiderably Amazon wish list. I use my wish list as a “holding area” for books, music, and movies I plan on eventually buying, though not always from amazon.
Unfortunately, this wish list isn’t easily portable, and of course I can’t remember everything on it when I’m at a book, music, or movie store. I’ve tried several methods for carrying it with me, most particularly Ryan Holcomb’s tip for printing it out so it fits in the pocket of a Moleskine. None of these seem to work that well for me - my list is just too damn long and unwieldy.
This weekend it occurred to me that in addition to using Plucker to keep track of my GTD next action lists, I could also use it to sync a local copy of my Amazon wish list right to my Palm. Now, every time I sync Plucker, I end up with the latest and greatest version of my wish list in handy searchable form right on my T3, ready for easy access next time I’m in Border’s. Sweet!
Commander Dave points out Plucker as an alternative to MacNoteTaker for syncing Tinderbox content to your Palm device. I had just discovered Plucker right before the conference, and have only played with it a little bit, but Dave’s spot on - it looks to be an excellent means of getting Tinderbox content across. This is particularly true if you want/need nicer looking display than a text file.
I’d suggest both applications have their place. I’m working on a hack to not only get text out of Tinderbox to my Palm via MacNoteTaker, but to easily get it back into Tinderbox as well, after it’s been edited on the Palm. I suspect MacNoteTaker is the better tool in this situation, while Plucker excels at syncing documents that you intend primarily to read, but aren’t concerned about editing.
If you’re having difficulty with my RSS feeds, it’s because I did some heavy back-end surgery to them tonight. Now, not only do are they all well-formed XML that validates, but they support the necessary category tagging for my posts to show up in Technorati tags.
I mentioned the work Mark had done on implementing a macro to do tags in Tinderbox, and originally set out to do something similar. Then I read how Technorati will pick up categories from your RSS feed, and correctly categorize posts in TT based on your existing categories. Frankly, this seemed a far more elegant solution than generating duplicate tagging for each post: I’m already categorizing posts for my blog, Technorati ought to be able to use my existing tagging - and it turns out that it will.
Doing this really involved only some minor modifications to my feeds - but then I noted some cruft that I’d acquired during earlier experiments, and some incorrect syntax, and a botched namespace - well, just a ton of little crap that kept the feeds from validating. Part of the fix was renaming every feed from a .rss extension to a .xml extension, which effectively “moved” the feeds. I think I have everything successfully redirected and your browsers and aggregators should pick up on it automagically. If not, just change the file extension and you should be good to go.
Mark writes about Technorati tags and demonstrates a method for including them in Tinderbox blog posts. I plan on spending some time this weekend incorporating then here. I’m also going to go back and use the CategoryFactory macro to tag all of my old posts, as well.
If you’ve been putting off purchasing Tinderbox, now is the time to pull the trigger. Eastgate has substantially discounted the price for what I suspect is a rather limited period.
It’s also just over a month until Tinderbox Weekend Boston. If you’re serious about making the most out of Tinderbox, you should consider attending - you’ll learn a lot, and it’s a ton of fun!
Merlin Mann of 43 Folders has posted a lengthy description of the things he’d like to see in a productivity application. I was struck by how many of the things he’d like are part of Tinderbox already - and most of the ones that aren’t are things I’d like to see added!
On January 23rd, I fully intend for there to be a new Mac mini on the component shelf, attached to my HDTV, a wireless keyboard, and a wireless mouse.
I’m also pretty eager to get my hands on Pages, which looks to be something a REALTOR could make some use of.
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 12:55:12 -0500
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Wrack and Ruin: For whatever reason (say an opressive regime has taken over your country), you find that you have to cut and run, leaving most everything behind to live on the lam for a while. After packing all the essentials (You packed a flashlight, right? Double check), you find that you have room for 7 or 8 books. You have 5 minutes to select the books to take.
An interesting question! I have a huge library, and my first thought was that it’d be incredibly difficult to chose. Thinking about it, I realized that if I had to cut and run, I’d most likely run to either Canada, Ireland, or the UK, all places where I could almost certainly replace just about everything in my library. Further, I maintain a decent collection of e-book titles on my PowerBook, which includes most of the stuff I’d want with me for reading while traveling. My practical streak wins this one — I’d take the extra five minutes lead time over the bad guys to make good my escape, and make do with my PowerBook and the knowledge that I could replace my library at my destination.
Here’s a run down of the reading material currently on my PowerBook:
0wnz0red, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Liberation Spectrum - Cory Doctorow
CIA World Factbook
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Gate of Ivrel, Well of Shiuan, Fires of Azeroth - C.J. Cherryh
Letters - Thomas Jefferson
Lord of the Isles, Queen of Demons - David Drake
On the Ruin of Britain - Gildas Sapiens
Seeing Cyberspace - Brian Thomas Carroll
The Time Machine, War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells
The Three Musketeers - Alexander Dumas
The Challenger Guide: Job Hunting Success for Mid-Career Professionals
The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity - Vernor Vinge
The Vest Pocket Dictionary
October and December 2003 issues of Macworld Magazine
Looking things over, that’s not a bad list!
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