For the past couple weeks I’ve been using Spirited Away. Spirited Away is a program for OS X that hides applications after they have not been brought to the foreground for a set period of time. I have mine set to 6 minutes. I absolutely love the program. I used to be a compulsive application hider, instinctively hitting command-h quite often. Now I never hit command-h, the programs that I frequently use are always visible, and things I don’t need to see are magically removed from visibility and don’t distract me.
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
“We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end. It has cost a vast amount of treasure and blood … It has indeed been a trying hour for the Republic; but I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. God grant that my suspicions may prove groundless.”
– Letter from Lincoln to Col. William F. Elkins, Nov. 21, 1864
Paul Ford, author of Harper’s Weekly Review, has a niffty technique for rebooting one’s lungs when nervouse/anxious.
An email I sent to BoingBoing got quoted in the article I was commenting on. Mine is the second to last Reader Comment:
Why was Colbert press corps video removed from YouTube?
Whoo hoo! I’m especially proud to have been quoted defending C-Span, of which I am a huge fan. Man, I need to get back to watching Washington Journal. Fascinating discussion, crazed callers, and calm and collected c-span anchors — it’s truly the best way to start a morning.
I was asked to write an article about Lyceum in Red Hat Magazine. Here it is!
Looks like there’s a new tool that allows for custom filterting of RSS feeds for a highly customized agregation experience. Ironically, I learned about this through boingboing, a publication for which I have my own filter list in NewNewsWire:
(the first field is the boingboing rss feed, I guess it wrapped after the resource type for some reason)
(note that i don’t filter out posts written by xeni, only the ones about her (appearing on another tv show, blah blah))
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.
It’s cool that ABC has blogs where they discuss things like this candidly.
A few weeks ago I discovered Frictionless. Frictionless is a to-do list program that can serve as the hub of a GTD system.
Here’s is what is AMAZING about Frictionless, and what I haven’t seen in any other to-do list program: dependencies. To-do items can be set to be dependent on one or more other to-do items. In general, this is very handy for viewing a project and set of tasks in an intuitive, hierarchical structure. But more importantly, this facilitates GTD Magic, because when viewing to-do items in the Next Actions window, if item A is dependent on item B, it won’t even display item A. When looking at the next-actions window, what you see is all of your to-do items that can be done, and nothing more.
Frictionless has a smattering of other nice features like support for Roles (which I haven’t explored much yet), a This Week view which shows items that are to be done on specific days, and ‘Due On’, ‘Start On’, and ‘Do On’ properties, all with Cocoa date syntax goodness (”today” or “next week” will transform into a date).
It is however a pretty young project. As far as I can tell completed to-do items never stop being displayed, a lot of the UI could use some work, and some things are just plain buggy. There used to be regular releases, but things have slowed down lately. Give it a spin, and then send the developer some encouragement, maybe we can convince him to continue development on this amazing product.
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