Year: 2006

I found out that sometimes using a calendar instead of a TODO list can increase productivity. It turns out that if the due date for a task is not set or is not very specific or depends on something else, I just dump the task in the list and forget all about it. With calendar it’s different – there’s just no way of adding an item without specifying date. So add a task and discover that it can’t be done or I don’t want to do it on the date that it was set originally. I move it. Then I move it again. Then again. Eventually, I’ll get tired of moving it and will just complete it and forget about it. Yey!

The question my wife asked me after I read her this was “Are you going to buy it?”. Apparently, it sounds like the stuff that I usually pay for.

My son is one and a half years old today. While he is still a little guy, it sounds like A LOT. Some people say that I won’t even notice the time it’ll get him to grow up, get married, and have kids of his own. I’m starting to believe them…

Linux.com has an interesting article about Using screen for remote interaction. Since I do a lot of screen advocacy, and these particular features too, I thought I’d share the link to the article. Just in case, you know…

Screen is one of those tools that is hard to explain but pure genius once you see it in operation. The description from its official Web site doesn’t help much:

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

Basically, screen allows you to create virtual terminals which are not connected to your actual xterms or console screens. You can then disconnect from a screen session and reconnect from somewhere else while preserving your shell or other running processes.

Via Linux Weekly News.

Here is another list of 17 Pithy Insights For Startup Founders. The ones I liked the most are

6. Eventually, your product will need to work and do something useful. No amount of marketing or strategy will get you around this.

and

11. Force yourself to write, as it will force you to think.

(blogging, wiki, email, IM, anything). And, of course,

13. The problem you solve should be ugly. The solution you build should be beautiful.

And this one

14. Even the most successful startup ideas had 100 reasons not to pursue them. There is no perfect idea.

which goes really well with that thing I just posted.