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Can’t wait for the iPhone 3G. It seems that along with it will come the release of OmniFocus and Things, both outstanding task management apps for OSX. Personally I’m not at my desktop or laptop all that much so I’m really looking forward to using these apps (well, one of them eventually but I’ll have to see which is “best” first by trying them both) while I’m out and about. Just think about all those thoughts I have in the taxi or while having my coffee in the morning that can be put straight into THE SYSTEM.
The famously fantastic Episode party series is this year moving out to Petone to go head to head with the righteous Rumpletron. It could be dangerous, we don’t know, but it won’t matter much as there will be a plethitude of dandy doctors and naughty nurses on the dance floor ready for action.
Block out the evening of 5 July and expect to spend the following day in the recovery ward.
Dress: Hospital
Location: Our warehouse home in Petone
There will be punch. Bring more.
Transport is easy, that will not be an acceptable excuse. See you soon!
Very entertaining article by Joel Spolsky about not forgetting where you came from and acknowledging that its your own fault if you chose not to take a compass or if they weren’t invented yet, either way the new recruits won’t leave without a TomTom.
For quite some years I have bugged a good friend of mine, Mike White, about his “shortlist”. Only jesting of course, but the simple question “how’s your shortlist?” has usually been answered honestly and to the point.
At some stage the question got abbreviated even further to “how’s boys?” for Alyssa, who now seems to have a consistent answer to my question.
d3vo has taken to publishing his personal shortlist online which I find highly entertaining- well actually I find my imaginings of the reactions of the real people on the shortlist to be entertaining, not the list itself. See where not to meet single women, date planning, bed trays and date planning updated.
I guess you (who are about to apply for inclusion onto the shortlist) would take great solace in knowing that a full documented history is available and if you’re in trouble at all you can jump online to possibly find out why and maybe get some hints on what to do about it.
Lately I’ve been using my macbook and imac side by side with one shared keyboard and mouse using Synergy. It works an absolute treat. However, I am bored of typing in commands in Terminal to get Synergy going so I’ve made my first shell scripts to allow my usual double clicking behaviour.
I’ve used Textmate to make two files, synergys.sh and synergyc.sh.
To start the server on the imac:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting synergy server"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergys -f --config /Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergy.conf
To start the client on the macbook:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Starting synergy client"
/Applications/synergy-1.3.1/synergyc -f computername
and don’t forget to make it executable:
chmod +x filename.sh
and/or if you want it to be double clickable just rename the script to filename.command
Thanks d3vo for the pointers!
Damn, that’s a sexy scooter. Good thing my girlfriend is away this week because I have reunited with an old long time love from university: Scooting. Back then I used to ride from Karori down to town and back.
This new so called Monster Bullet from Micro is so much fun to ride- very different from ordinary scooters with this cool new “carving” mechanism. It corners like a snowboard; you can push it around and fish tail it with your hind leg.
So d3vo and I just spent the evening looking into hotting up his scooter. He has quite different preferences to me. In general I like my scooter to be as small as possible, as light as possible, with very stable smooth wheels that have great stamina, no movement in any other part except brakes and steering, silent braking. d3vo likes a long, wide deck and the biggest (we presume fastest) wheels he can fit on it.
BTW if you’re coming to Wellington from London and would like to bring my A-bike over with you in exchange for a beer and/or a hug, you’re on.
Somehow I have managed to avoid the usual stress of finding xmas gifts this year!! (I hate shopping for gifts out of obligation when I don’t know what to buy. I like the giving, but not the shopping). That is to say, I got them all in advance. SO MUCH BETTER than walking around shops with a million others in a grump. Of course, I still haven’t got Fraser a gift, but he’s in London, and there’d be something wrong if I remembered everything.
Today I planted a small herb garden, went for a bike ride, tried unsuccessfully to make an Automator shell script, got Synergy going with my macs (easy!), figured out why MarkSpace wasn’t synching with my phone (leopard), listened to some podcasts, bounced on the trampoline, read a bunch of blogs, played my ukulele, designed something and ordered it from ponoko, tidied my room, put some mung beans in the sprouter, got a yogurt maker and put some yogurt on for tomorrow, picked up a couple of minor gifts from New World, got mildly tanned in the sun, played with the friendly sheep in the field and the mad ducks under the sprinkler, pulled some weeds, picked some apricots, watered the orchard, and watched An Inconvenient Truth (very compelling).
So anyways, I’m planning to post almost every day over the next week or two, so even though I didn’t have anything to say I thought I’d better kick start the habit.
Good ‘ol Merlin Mann, gotta love this quote:
Yeah, I know smart execs have delegated for centuries. But I can envision a world where sweating over your beepy electronic device starts looking about as “executive†and “pro-active†as sucking on a crack pipe in the break room.
Lately I’ve taken to treating the phone like any other information source, it can wait its turn. There’s a stack of magazines sitting under my desk that have been waiting longer for attention than some of my text messages. That hardly seems fair now, does it? 
I realise that posting this is blatant advertising for St John’s, but what an excellent promo. 5 free beers over 5 days and then a $50 bar tab to say thanks for drinking the free beer.
Every day next week St Johns loyalty members will get a free beer from a different part of the world between 5pm & 6.30pm. If you complete the passport of all five beers you win a $50 bar-tab. Easy as that!
Mon 17th - Monteiths NZ
Tues 18th - Tiger Singapore
Wed 19th - Erdinger Germany
Thurs 20th - Budvar Czech Rep.
Frid 21st - Heineken Holland
So now you know where I’ll be after work next week. You just need to sign up to their loyalty scheme.
