Code, watching Keira play soccer, hanging out with the family. Today was a pretty good day. Tried to scratch together a list of items that I’d like to hand off to a virtual assistant. That quick exercise yielded 25 things, I might need a fleet of assistants or a reality check. Probably the reality check.
Interesting tidbits from around the web
- RSS Feed + GeekTool – teh awesome. I needed a way to focus on a couple RSS feeds without all the noise in NetNewsWire, specifically my Github and Pivotal Tracker dashboards. I had a problem with https in the beginning but simply dropping the SSL made things work like a charm.
- Wave back channel in conferences – sounds like a pretty good use.
- 10 Droid Apps – PC World’s list of a starter set of apps. A few of them looked really cool; Twidroid, Compare Everywhere and Key Ring.
- Missing Drawer – We got some feedback on BDDCasts to use something like ProjectPlus to deal with TextMate’s drawer. I’ve never had much problem with the drawer, sure it opens on a side depending on space, but meh. I tried out Missing Drawer and so far I’m liking the feel of it.
- Nice Find – Continuing with the TextMate theme I wanted to see what other useful plugins were out there and came across this, asynchronous find in project that can use git-grep. The other one in this category would be “ack in project”.
Today was not a good day for my relationship Firefox. I downloaded the 3.6b and have been in a world of hurt. So much that I went and started tweaking Safari with Pith Helmet and Glims. Then I came to my senses and went back to Firefox 3.5.5.
Interesting tidbits from around the web
- MacLitigator – A site for and by lawyers and their staff using mac. Interesting because they have a different take on how to use software. Found because they talk about importing Journler to MacJournal, which I did because Journler is dead.
- Here’s a Nickel, Kid – A classic Dilbert strip. TabMixPlus restored 37 tabs from who knows how long ago, this was one of them.
- Organized – I thought I was going to go with something like this. I’ve used iCal Agenda before, and a widget. Widgets aren’t great because I have to hit F12. I ended up going with iCalBuddy and GeekTool (hasseg.org’s custom build of GeekTool), and a bunch of tweaking, but I’m happy, I have a 7 day agenda on my desktop.
- adva cms – Istvan put me on to this little gem. Sven Fuchs and co. are plugging along on a highly modular, very slick CMS for rails. If you decide to play with it, run “rake adva:install:all” to get analystics, wiki, gallery, etc.
- Wire your House with Ethernet Cable – Lifehacker points to an instructable on fishing Cat-5 or 6 through your walls. I’d love to do this, or I’d love the time and patience to do this. If I move my office into the basement I might not have a choice.
