Have you ever heard about MessagEase, the extremely fast and efficient text-entry method for small devices? Probably not, even though it’s been around for a long time. And why not? I firmly believe that it’s because of the learning curve — it takes at least a few hours of practice to see any real speed …
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. My mother has had operations for it; I’ve had precursors of it myself a few times. Hopefully these exercises will work to protect against it.
A little while ago, I wrote about how I’d started using a version-control system (Subversion) for my source code files. It worked well, but now that I’ve got a really good network-attached storage device (“the NAS” from here on), I wanted to put my repositories on there instead of keeping them on my local drive. …
I’ve long had a vision of the perfect computer storage device. It’s physically small, but holds an absolutely ludicrous amount of data. It’s instantly available to all my computers and other electronics, but I have full control over who can access its contents. And it’s reliable enough that, with the occasional off-site backup, I never …
A friend and associate, who recently started a potentially-commercial programming project of his own, asked me an interesting question the other day: […] Do you ever find you get discouraged when you try to code something and it doesn’t work, so you try a different way and it still doesn’t work? I’m finding I’m less …
I’ve installed a Markdown plugin on the blog, which should make writing nicely-formatted posts and comments a lot easier and quicker. This is the same system that the Stack Overflow site uses (and that’s where I found out about it). Here’s the Markdown syntax cheatsheet, cut from this page:
It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. — Sally Kempton It’s hardly a secret to anyone who knows me, but I have a confession to make to the rest of the world: I am addicted to developing software. As GoddessJ can attest, if I don’t do some kind of development …
Spurred by the death of my desktop system a few days ago, I spent most of yesterday cleaning up and rearranging the office, especially my desk. I hadn’t intended to spend much time on it. My initial plan was just to remove the carcass of the desktop system and store it somewhere out of the …
“…but you can’t have everything you want.” Those wise words come from one of Barbara Sher’s life-planning books, I believe. The idea is that, if you devote yourself to it, you can achieve pretty much any goal you set your mind to — pretty standard stuff in that kind of book — but by the …
While I was gearing up for my most recent attempt at GTD (and my most successful one, by far), I went to the local office-supply store and picked up several boxes of file folders. GoddessJ, my wife, protested: “what do you need all of those for?” (My flip answer, “it’s a GTD thing, you wouldn’t …