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• 8.30.07 Wireless Surprise posted in General

  I’m sitting in a crappy restaurant here in Winona, being totally surprised to find a 5 bar wireless connection for my laptop. Of course, the router has the default linksys name and, you guessed it, admin password. So I’m not terribly excited to be on this network, but also not terribly concerned that anyone else knows about it. Anyway…

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• 7.26.07 The Zombie Designer (or “Pownce on These”) posted in Geekery

  We’re wrapping up what is proving to be one of our biggest months ever at Circle Six Design. More billable hours, more fun software releases, more blood, sweat and tears all around. It’s going to pay off in the end, I’m certain, but right now I’m a zombie. I’ve never worked so many hours in my life. A man should not work 20 hours a day, and if he does, he should take Sundays off. That’s my new plan, right there. No working more than 15 hours and I get weekends off. So there.

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• 7.21.07 Screencasting and other News posted in Geekery, General

  I’m finishing up a screencast for Jott2iGTD2 and planning to do one for my Mail.app and iGTD setup next. I’m on a roll. I got Jott2iGTD2 finished up today, complete with a new icon and installer package. It should be online shortly, I just have to finish rendering the screencast and typing up the documentation. I’m having fun with my Blue Snowball Microphone. This thing is killer.

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• 7.21.07 Jott2iGTD After Dark posted in Geekery

  Okay. It’s 12:30AM and I never stay up this late. Mostly because I usually get up about 3 or 4 hours from now. But I’m pretty deep into the new version of Jott2iGTD right now. In order to take advantage of the new notification features of iGTD, I had to use rubycocoa, and distributing that in any decent way meant a bundled app. Then the challenge was creating a universal binary (I ended up building for PPC only and it works fine). Then I had to embed a ruby interpreter to normalize the playing field. Then I had to fake out an icon (it’ll get better), and now I’m back to debugging. This is all new to me, I’ve been scripting since my Pascal days but haven’t had to compile anything for as long as I can remember. Or write a line of C. I had to write 5 or 6 to make this one work ;). So anyway, I’ve only been able to test this on two machines, one Intel, one PPC, so if anyone would like to get an advance copy and let me know if it works, all you need is the ability to run Console and email its output. Contact me if you’re interested.

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• 7.19.07 It’s my party… posted in General

  Well, it was my Birthday today. I got a lot of good wishes, in person and via the internet, which kept me going through an otherwise perfectly awful day. But all that aside, Bartek got me an advance copy of the next iGTD and the new notification system rocks. You can add tasks and archive items through any interface that can send cocoa notifications, including rubycocoa, so porting the current version of Jott2iGTD was simple. I should be ready to release the next version about the same time he’s ready to release the new iGTD. Improved guessing algorithms, way better parsing system, date handling, all that jazz. Coming soon…

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• 7.13.07 News from CulturedCode posted in Web Design

  It’s been a little while since we’ve heard from them, but CulturedCode has released a new version of XyleScope and has plans to release a GTD-based ToDo manager called “Things”…

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• 7.4.07 Projects In The Works posted in Geekery

  I’m kind of taking the 4th off and spending some time away from the radiation production factories that are my offices, but here’s an update on the projects that are underway…

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• 6.18.07 Upgraded posted in Website Updates

  Well, I’ve been designing all of my new Wordpress sites with version 2.2, but just now finally got around to upgrading the blog. It seemed like a fairly painless experience with just a couple of plugin related glitches. I did it through Subversion so I’ll revert if anything goes terribly wrong. If you notice anything amiss on the blog, please let me know! In the meantime I’ve picked up work again on the Wordpress Theme Bundle for TextMate and will be releasing an updated version with a whole bunch of new, more advanced tags and options. I’m also almost through the testing phase for UTW-rpc and have a new AutoTag bundle to go with it. Still open to Beta Testers on that one, if you want in, let me know.

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• 5.21.07 To Whom It May Concern posted in General

  I thought I’d jot a quick post tonight. I’ve sorely neglected the blog for a few days now, having become obsessed with a complete overhaul of the main Circle Six Design site. It’s going very well, a Victorian/Noir design with a touch of javascript and a few maneuvers that I pulled out of thin air to impress the ladies. I also fixed the link on 30Cal so if you haven’t tried it yet, check it out. One of my visitors sent me an enhancement for the Wordpress Theme Bundle, so look for an updated release of that very soon. I’m seriously considering doing all of the more advanced tags and still planning to get it up-to-date with the new codex. All this and more, as soon as I get the new site online. Oh, and I’m building the new site on WP 2.2, so it’s giving me a chance to test my plugins and bundles for errors, which I’ll report/update soon.

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• 4.29.07 From Milwaukee with Love posted in General

  I slept really well on a futon last night. It’s fun being in a house with an open wireless connection, although I went and forgot the power supply for my MacBook, so this will be short lived. My friend paul shared this with me, though, so if you haven’t seen it, it’s worth a look. Go to maps.google.com and get directions, and type in New York to London. Read the instructions carefully. The map makes it pretty obvious.

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