I chime in on the reactions to the iPad as a new wave of pleasantly functional but closed computing.

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If you use BibDesk, I want to hear how you use it – what features you use most, and how you have it set up. I’ve added a page to the BibDesk wiki to share User Screenshots – add a section there about what you do with BibDesk, and share your experiences. I added my [...]

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I couldn’t make it to WWDC last year, I’m not at Macworld this week, but I will be making it up to LA on the 19th for the Leopard Tech Talk, to catch up. I’ll probably be there the day before, owing to traffic and an inability to wake up early. If any area mac [...]

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After years of being aware of David Allen’s GTD system through 43 Folders and other sites, I took the dive about a month ago and dumped all my various to-do lists and project ideas into Kinkless GTD. I had tried to keep reminders and actions in a variety of other systems, including emacs org-mode and [...]

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For those few readers who are interested in High Performance Computing and might be going to this year’s Supercomputing conference in Tampa, my advisor Allan Snavely and Jeremy Kepner from Lincoln Labs are putting on a BOF with an intriguing subject: “Is 99% Utilization of a Supercomputer a Good Thing?” It’ll be on Thursday Nov. [...]

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My Powerbook’s disk died yesterday around 1pm. Since then I’ve been thinking about how to get by without it. After taking far too long to realize it was beyond my troubleshooting ability, I took it to the UTC Apple store at 5 or so, and got an appointment for 7:45, then went for a drink. [...]

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In case you had no idea what I was talking about in the last post, I’ve put together a hasty screencast with no script, no soundtrack, and no editing. In the video you can see a few things: 0:00: I have found a way to show you the palm trees on my street without showing [...]

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13 months ago, I “launched” the leverage project on sourceforge, supposed to be a place to house all the various OS X / Cocoa text manipulation hacks I’ve done, including my I-Search for NSTextView InputManager hack. I haven’t touched leverage since, but today I added three more projects to the SVN repository with varying appeal [...]

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Take me to WWDC with the Mike McCracken WWDC flashcards.

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I visit 43Folders only about once a week now – I couldn’t deal with the cognitive dissonance implied by procrastinating by visiting a site about how to be more efficient and avoid procrastination. I was really glad yesterday to see Merlin’s post about faking full screen mode with a trio of useful apps. I had [...]

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