Monkinetic Weblog

I'm just beginning to work on my own GTD system, and I'm using OmniOutliner 3 Pro for a good part of my action list management. Since David (Allen, author of ::amazon("0142000280/merlinsblog-20","Getting Things Done")::) recommends using your calendar to manage the hard landscape, I have appointments and such in iCal.

To try out.

Because I'm always trying and failing to get things done, I'm investigating the latest in productivity memes. Gad, I'll try just about anything if it'll help.

I'm also reading The eMyth Revisited, on the advice of my father, who has navigated the entrepreneurial waters for most of my life.

I've got a bee in my bonnet to figure out a good way to implement a simple tagging scheme like the one used by del.icio.us. My particular question is, is it better to leave the tags in a text field and union them on the fly, or do some sort of pre-processing into an intermediate state before querying them?

Link so I can find it again in the future: Jason Deraleau, setting up a couple kinds of DHCP servers to serve LDAP connection information to OS X clients.

I'm trying out a new plugin, from coffe2code, called Dynamic Text Replace. It's a simple macro plugin for |WordPress|.

Man, I had no idea Pavarotti loved elephants so much. (Yeah, thanks Mark. Bork!)

>"Marketing, shmarketing. I say, bash away on java as much as possible. I dont know exactly what problems people are having pushing openacs to clients, but I have found that getting the initial project spec, taking it home, and coming back with their project 60% completed in two days is a lot stronger marketing tactic than saying 'well yes, it will take 6 months to build you a bulletin board, but your system will have an object-relational persistance layer and full J2EE compliance.'"
-- Rzolf

At work we're trying to set up a bunch of users on laptops with directory-based authentication and home directories. The trouble we're running into is that these laptops are all wireless, and on OS X, airport doesn't start until a user logs in. Therefore the machine can't see the authentication directory on the network until a local user has logged in and out again.

See, this is what happens when you realize that a good friend has had an RSS feed all along and you finally subscribe.

> "It wasn't just slow, it was Majestic"

I'm finally working on my next SiteLight, an interesting if long-ish interview with Mark VenderWettering of brainwagon.org. I hope you enjoy it, I know I have!

This past weekend and week, |Jodi| and I spent a lot of time working to finally finish LT's room. Following are the results...

Seth has been writing about many aspects of development for the Mozilla browser for a while now, and he's finally gotten published! Seth contributed a number of hacks to the new Firefox Hacks book from O'Reilly.

Seth's been busy - he recently added channels (sort of like customizable &uumlautber-categories in Conversant) for people he blogs about, including one for Steve Ivy - neat! If he's mentioned you and there's a category for your name, you can also subscribe to a vanity feed (linked on the channel page).

To the man who was, for many of us, the original Rocketman... Captain Kirk, now 74. Happy Birthday, Bill!

A new implementation of tabs in CSS using standard semantic markup: Tabtastic [via SimpleBits]