Apr
11
Someone please tell my why this Twitter crap has become so
damn popular all of the sudden?
Do people really care what other people are doing? Why
would I waste my time typing out a message explaining what
I'm doing?
What's the deal with twitter?
UPDATE (04.27.07): Okay... So I signed up for twitter
to see what the deal was. ummm... and ummm... I must
ummm... admit, I'm addicted, and I can't even explain why.
So, I guess the question in the title of this post is still
legit: What's the deal with Twitter? I've been converted
www.twitter.com/trick
lin
Apr
03
A co-worker recommended I download a program touting to
be the "TextMate" for
Windows called "E-TextEditor". For
those of you who don't know what TextMate is, it is an HTML
editor exclusively for Mac, that is exclusively amazing.
Knowing the great things TextMate offers, and owning a PC
myself, I was pretty excited to see if the claims were true.
So, I downloaded, and I honestly must say, I'm very
impressed. The functionality of this editor is pretty
amazing. There really is a long list of things that can be
done with this editor, so I'll just list a few of my
favorite things (like the song):
- If you have the HTML bundle selected, and create a new
document, and type 'skel' + Tab, TextEditor will
automatically generate an HTML skeleton for you:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;
charset=utf-8" />
<title>Page Title</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/master.css"
type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title"
charset="utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
- Type 'Table' + Tab and see what happens
- Holding down the 'Alt' key, and clicking and dragging
your mouse over text will allow you to do column
selection.
- Type 'h1' + Tab, and the h1 open and close will
auto-generate. Then begin typing, and based on the content,
E-TextEditor will suggest a value for the h1's 'id'.
The list goes on an on. Anyway, I recommend downloading
the trial version, and giving it a try. You may find it
worth the $35 to own it outright.
May
10
***
UPDATE - 5/10
It has come to my attention that my co-worker actually uses
a modified version of TiddlyWiki called GTDTiddlyWiki.
GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone
adaptation by NathanBowers of JeremyRuston's Open Source
TiddlyWiki. The purpose of GTD Tiddly Wiki is to give users
a single repository for their GTD lists and support
materials so they can create/edit lists, and then print
directly to 3x5 cards for use with the HipsterPDA. -- shared.snapgrid.com
***
I noticed a
co-worker always entering things into some HTML interface
every day. Finally, I had to find out just what this tool
was. It turns out, that this tool was what he uses to
organize his day. He uses it as his personal To Do list. I
know that just knowing this, won't amaze you. The cool
thing about this tool, is that all that is involved is a
single '.html' file. That's right, he manages his personal
life using a single '.html' file.
What? A Single HTML File?
A guy named Jeremy Ruston developed a cool tool called
"TiddlyWiki", and
it's made and functions completely off of JavaScript and
HTML contained in one '.html' file. All you have to do is
go to TiddlyWiki,
and download this '.html' file and you can get started.
Once opened in a browser (preferably Firefox), you can add
to it whatever you please. Take a look at what I
was able to do in about 2 minutes.
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