03.08.07
Link… Thursday?!
Hey. So I’m a little late with the linkage love. As a result, I’m giving you a 110% money back guarantee on the subscription fees to TFO.net*.
I’d been playing around with a few more GTD tools (that stands for Getting Things Done, incidentally) and found that my Dock was starting to get a little crowded. I briefly considered a replacement or extension to it until I decided to take a flyer on Quicksilver. The basic idea behind QS is that it instantly lets you search and automate certain tasks with just a few keystrokes. Let’s say I want to open up my “new blog post” bookmark; ordinarily I’d have to go to FireFox, click “Bookmarks”, then click “New Blog Post”. With QS, all I do is hit control-space and type “new blo”; it finds the FF bookmark and sets up a list of actions. I can hit Enter if all I want to do is open the bookmark (usually) or I can hit Tab to see what other options are available to me. All without leaving the keyboard. The iCal plugin isn’t obvious from an immediate glance but it’s damn nifty for quickly adding new events/logs. I still have to go into iCal to flesh out the details, but it’s faster to type “Friday 8am — DMV trip” than to mouse through the whole thing, especially on a trackpad.
As noted last night, I’m moving quickly through games. To be fair, I was nearly at the end of Castlevania anyway, but I still chose to add one more completion to the moratorium so as to slow myself down even further. I trimmed down my open games list on my whiteboard and will probably fix the list int he blog later today… I don’t want to get into another RPG so quickly just yet, so I’ll likely go through Hotel Dusk. I also want to talk a litte bit about FF12, but in the forums… perhaps this weekend.
I’ve collected about half a dozen agents to work with for publishing Incon. All, actually, without really reading through the copy of Writer’s Market I’d received back in November. That’s about to change, of course; I should be leafing through it and underlining stuff tomorrow in line at the DMV, though just because I should be doing it, it does not necessarily follow that I will.
Oh, yes. There will be a long rant, possibly upset, tomorrow. But it will be late; I want to save my ranting for after I have something to rant about, so as soon as I get done with the car stuff, we’ll talk. Ciao, folks.
* Refund offer expired… yeah, yesterday.