When I was using Lotus Notes years ago and far away, I made these notes to myself of how I was implementing GTD (or at least task management) using Lotus Notes. We’d been forcibly removed from Outlook, which was familiar, to Notes, which was stark and unfriendly. Anyway, here are the notes so I can …
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NaNoWriMo ’06 – Lessons Learned
The blog went quiet in November because I decided to once again compete in the National Novel Writing Month competition. I blogged a bit about the comp last year when I dropped out then dropped back in. By then, though, it was too late and I only had about 30-some-thousand words by month’s end. I’ve …
Links Roundup – Hard Drives Failures, Flintstones
The main theme of these links is recovering or preparing to recover from hard disk failure, inspired by a co-worker’s sad experience last week. Most of these links come from the indispensible Lifehacker site (what did we do before Lifehacker??) Recover data from a crashed hard drive – Lifehackerhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/disk-recovery/recover-data-from-a-crashed-hard-drive-146386.php Ask Lifehacker: Reinstalling Windows? – Lifehackerhttp://www.lifehacker.com/software/windows/ask-lifehacker–reinstalling-windows-137288.php …
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Six-word stories
Catarina.net has a wonderful thread asking people to suggest six-word stories. The lead-off story by Hemingway is poignant, and one of the commenters observes that sad stories seem easier to write in this compressed form. I contributed the history professor story.
"Monday-morning lines"
John Sutherland’s Guardian article on the contention that some of Shakespeare’s worst lines were written the morning after a big drunk is amusing, though it feels kind of rushed into print to fill space on a slow news day. Alhough all of the Macbeth examples were pretty well chosen, it feels as if Sutherland is …
Liz cracks me up
We were driving through the miles ‘n’ miles of shopping center near the 70 and 540 intersection. As we drove down the faux Mayberry Main Street blocks of chain stores, I said, “To think, all that was here before was just trees and unproductive land.” Pause. Then Liz said, “And now, it’s servicing America.” For …
Al & Mel’s "Lost Girls"
For a man widely described as a recluse and rarely given to interviews, Alan Moore is all over the place. First with “V for Vendetta” and now with “Lost Girls.” This page at Top Shelf Comix links to all or most of the interviews he’s been giving since the book’s release. Top Shelf reports it’s …
Phillips on death
The world without the people who matter to us is not the same world and so not the world at all. Life becomes progressively stranger as we get older – and we become increasingly frantic to keep it familiar, to keep it in order – because people keep changing the world for us by dying …
Doppelganger
I blogged about my new Honda Fit earlier this summer. Given that I’ve seen so few Fits in the Durham area, I felt very pleased that I was the only one on my block with a Fit, and an orange one at that. When Liz and I left the Carolina Theater recently, we walked to …
Rating my GRE study materials
Part I dealt with how I prepared for the GRE. This is Part II. Flash cards. The best thing I did was create my own flash cards. I used the Princeton Review book as my basis, but any of the books would have done. This made the learning more personal, and I could put page …
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