Sun, 20 Mar 2005
Danger - Quicksand -- Short Review
I stumbled on to the site for Danger
- Quicksand - Have A Nice Day through one of the other blogs I read and
after reading the first couple of pages was sucked in.
The book doesn't cover anything really ground breaking but where it caught me was pointing out scenarios that I've been in and showing that I'm not the insane one for thinking they were odd or out of place. The author then tries to point out some of the available options. It's not a life changing book (well, not for me as I've lived through a lot of the topics it covers) but it is an interesting read; and there is a free pdf version for you to sample use to get your friends to buy a full paperback copy.
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Posted: 2005/03/20 23:57 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Clearing the In-tray
Between being ill, attending FOSDEM, putting a GLLUG on, actually
reviewing my review copies of books and a couple of other bits I can't
yet mention, the things requiring my attention have been not-so-slowly
piling up. I've taken a large chunk of this weekend to clear down the
multiple mail boxes, RSS feeds and saved book-marks that I was supposed to
read weeks ago.
One thing I have noticed is how much more productive I am when using client-side tools I can customise. I've stopped using rojo.com as my RSS aggregator of choice as I can't easily hack it to add filters, grep through the feeds etc. I'm in a similar position when reading mail. I read most of my mail using mutt (with a customised vim as the editor) and I can clear mails an order of magnitude faster than I can when reading and replying through gmail. I'm not against webapps but I need more access to them than they currently give me.
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Posted: 2005/03/20 17:25 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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