Blog
-
Phone as notetaker, email as a journal, plus my own light version of GTD
I've been using a very light form of "Getting Things Done" (GTD) for a little over a year now. This has been for mail management and self organization both for work and personal aspects of my life.
-
Tree Surgeon 2 released
Back in the dim and distant past (before about 18 months ago) when I used to write code, one of the things I scribed was a little .NET utility by the name of Tree Surgeon. After hanging up my programming gloves I handed this little guy over to Bil Simser.
-
Please can someone combine Netflix and Apple TV
I like Netflix - I pay a fixed amount per month and can watch as many rented movies / TV shows as a I want (subject to having a fixed number at any one time, and transportation time lags.)
-
Spanning Sync - Google Calendar Syncing for Macs (and distributed Calendaring revisited)
I have a mac at work and a mac at home now. How to keep these in sync? Simple - Spanning Sync using Google Calendar as the shared central point. It's not free, but it 'just works' (ok, Leopard had some iSync bugs in the early versions, but everything seems ok again now.) I really like how I can edit a calendar entry on my work machine and know it will eventually get synced to my iPhone when I sync that at home.
-
Super Furry Animals @ Bowery Ballroom, Beth Orton @ Hiro Ballroom, Hot Chip @ The Music Hall of Williamsburg
Since I got to New York 2 years ago (is it 2 years already? Yikes) I've been managing to get to a lot more gigs than I ever used to do in the UK. Last year I went to 10 or so shows, including my personal highlight of the year of seeing The Police at the Virgin Festival (a special 'between album' show by Franz Ferdinand at the intimate Bowery Ballroom was a close second.)
-
Job opportunities in my group at NYSE Euronext
I've been on my current team a year now, and things are coming along very nicely. We've got a great bunch of people, the agile / XP practice is moving along nicely (lots of pairing, big whiteboard walls, TDD, automated acceptance testing, etc.), and we moved the desktop development environment to fully-specced MacBook Pros with 30" external screens. Oh, and the pool table is still here so we've been honing our skills on that too.
-
Kent Beck on code maintainabilty
I don't often have entries that are just quotes, but I liked this from Kent Beck on the importance of code maintainability:
-
Facebook & Work
I've really enjoyed using Facebook for the last year or so. Of all the social networking apps out there I think it's been one that has actually added to my overall happiness.
-
HD-DVD going Beta, Blu-ray to follow relatively soon
The high definition disc war is pretty much a done deal now - Blu-ray is the victor. I knew it was happening, but when I got an email from Netflix today telling me I wouldn't be getting HD-DVDs from them for much longer it confirmed my suspicions.
-
Summer '07 music
This entry is a little late coming, however I have a whole new batch of CDs arriving in the next week or so I need to clear this out!