Remember Apple’s Pippin? I barely do, and am better for it.

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DevonTHINK) is great for collecting and organizing tons of reference materials. I’ve mentioned how much I like DT before. Merlin at 43Folders does a good job explaining some of the things he likes about it), including Smart Folders.

Here’s a bit of my database (which contains 2,498,863 words so far)

Parallels on MacBook Pro

Originally uploaded by JackBaty.

It’s pretty sweet being able to easily test web sites in IE and never leave my MacBook Pro. Setting up Parallels was a piece of cake. It’s still beta, and has crashed once or twice, but I’m sure the final product will take care of that. Using full-screen mode and virtual desktops to switch between XP and OS X is a little freaky - in a good way.

Rails Day 2006) is officially on. June 17th. Get yourself a team, registration will open soon. We at Fusionary Media) are participating as a sponsor by providing the web site design and hosting. Our own Dan), Jay) and Rex) have done a fantastic job putting the site together. And of course, it’s all due to Mr. Bryan Helmkamp’s effort putting things together. See you on June 17th.

Campfire is a wonderful app. Just the right balance of immediacy and “whenever I need it.” And now, with the nifty Marshmallow library, it’s also a bot-driven notification tool. We’ve got all of our Subversion commit messages and Capistrano deployment notifications posting to a Campfire room. With the right hooks, this could be what I wanted Jabber to be several years ago.

I can’t concentrate. Not sure why. Too many times recently I’ve spotted a browser or terminal window and said “Oh, yeah, that’s what I was going to work on.” There is a subtle flaw in the way my brain works that simply will not allow me to focus. GTD has helped, but as a way to recover from distractions rather than helping me to avoid them in the first place. I wrote a short poem years ago that seems to indicate this is not a new problem. I’m going to have to try something new. When I figure out what that is, I’ll let you know - unless I forget.

I was forced to watch Last Holiday with Jessica last night. By forced I mean that she said “Please!?” It’s nice when you just know a movie is going to suck - and then doesn’t. Queen Latifah totally saves the thing. I like her, and other than a contrived and misplaced ski hill scene, I liked the movie.

I love listening to Mozart. Always have. Even when I was (was?) a die-hard metal fan there was Eine Kleine Nachtmusik right there with Motley Crue in my tape case. (We had tape cases.)

Mozart is like 18th century metal. Listen to it loud and just try not to bang your head a little. He even had the attitude. For example, he wrote a canon (K.231) called “Lick me in the ass.” Seriously.

Rock on Wolfgang.

I just found a python script that will take the output from svn diff and run it through FileMerge.app so there’s a nice pretty visual diff to look at.

It’s called svndiffshim.py and can be found here.

To use it, copy the script somewhere (like ~/bin) and make sure it’s executable (chmod +x ~/bin/svndiffshim.py)

Then add something like the following to your ~/.subversion/config file…

` [helpers]

diff-cmd = /path/to/svndiffshim.py `

Flickr gets most of the community buzz, which is fine, I love Flickr. But, if you’re not so much into the community part of things, and still want a nice place to keep your photos, don’t forget about things like SmugMug and Zoto. I used to have a SmugMug account, but let it lapse. It seems they’ve added some pretty nice features for creating clean web galleries so it might be worth another look. And Zoto, which I just discovered, is a very slick alternative to Flickr with deep and easy tagging, 2 gig storage, an API and blogging features.