Korny’s blog

While I’m blogging…

I’ve started using a Getting Things Done TiddlyWiki - there seem to be a few of these around, I’m using the d-cubed tiddlywiki from http://www.dcubed.ca/ - it’s quite neat, and I seem to be managing to keep it up to date. I’ve set up a second standard TiddlyWiki for “general stuff” - things that aren’t tasks so much as reference info.

This is helped by the fact that I’ve set up a https based Subversion repository at home, which I’m now using to store all my vital configs, scripts, etc. - and being http based, I can check in/out files from work as well as home; I can even mount it as a WebDAV disk from OSX, Linux and (to a lesser degree) Windows. Though this seems to generate a pile of checkins, so I don’t do it often - manually checking in and out will do me just fine.

And it’s very nice to be able to share and access all the little handy scripts, to-do lists, and the like. Especially to-do lists; I haven’t managed before this to find a way to carry around *electronic* to-do lists that I could access from anywhere, and keep backed up. I was doing OK with index cards a-la HipsterPDA, but they aren’t so good when I want to put in URLs, or back them up! Still, they are my fallback solution for sorting out tasks in meetings or on the train… My N95 will actually render the TiddlyWiki, which is pretty impressive, but it’s not really usable, and there isn’t a subversion client for the N95 anyway!

Now I just have to work out how to integrate this with Google Mail, Google Calendar, Remember the Milk, my Delicious tags, and all the other places I’ve strewn todo-lists and starred items and the like.

I’ve been getting hooked on twitter - you can find me at http://twitter.com/kornys . Ephemeral micro-blogging! Beware, most of what I write is entirely trivial - but that’s half the fun.

Worse than that, I’ve found ‘twibble’ (http://www.das-zentralorgan.de/twibble/) , a java phone app that lets me sent tweets on the fly, and tags them with my GPS location!
So you can go to http://twittermap.com/maps, enter “kornys” and see where I’ve been. Unless I have a sudden rash of privacy concerns - but at the moment, this stuff is kind-of fun.

I foolishly left the default wordpress setting to “send me an e-mail but allow comments”. So now I’m on some spam source - I’ve made comments “moderate only” but I have to log in regularly and kill a pile of spam in the “to-moderate” folder. Maybe it’ll force me to blog more!