GTD with RTM
I’ve been personally using an online service called Remember The Milk (RTM) for sometime now. It allows me to manage my tasks on-line where ever I am. It also ties into some great services such a Google Calendars, GMail, and Jott (all services I use). I’ve been using RTM pretty regularly for the past couple of years but still struggled with organization and tracking of tasks.
In conjunction with RTM I’ve tried other services and application based around the “Getting Things Done” (GTD) philosophy but none of them really stuck with me. Thanks to a awesome posting on the RTM blog, I feel I’ve taken a few huge steps forward in both how I use RTM and how I manage my GTD life. I strongly recommend this read to all my friends and colleagues. RTM is a free service but there is a Pro account that gives you a couple (but not needed) bonuses and “A warm fuzzy feeling” (there words not mine 
Check out the service and check out the blog posting.
Remember The Milk - Blog (Advanced GTD with Remember The Milk)
Geek Gang Signs
For you hard core, Assembly Language Programming hommies.
Article from http://www.joeydevilla.com/2008/05/29/geek-gang-signs/
ONE MAN’S TRASH…
Just some cool art work. Could have done without the peeing sculptures but never the less, incredible. The shadows you see on the wall are being created by the strategically placed trash.
The Website is Down, Check The X-Box
Gaming consoles these days are down right powerful machines. I’ve read stories about people running Playstation3 Cluster Farms and other fun projects. This is a funny story I came across about a University using an X-Box for a web server.
Insane
One word, INSANE!
Get Down, Get Down.
He’s BIG, he’s white, and he can dance
I recently attended a conference for work and a buddy of mine (now ex-buddy) got some video of me on stage dancing it up with Wyclef Jean. It was a blast!
New Logo at Starbucks
It’s been awhile since my last post and I am sorry but I need to come out of it with a rant and here it goes.
What is the story with the new/old Starbucks logo? I guess it’s a throwback logo for Starbucks from back in the day but is this permanent? What marketing genius came up with this idea? “Hey I’ve got an idea; let’s change our globally recognized green logo that has become synonymous with coffee to something different. And while we’re at it let’s try and freak out a few people by displaying our Mermaid a little more prominently and show the fact that she actually has two tales.”
Come on, whenever you saw a green coffee cup be it on the street, on television, or in a movie, your first thought was probably, “hey there drinking Starbucks”. Yeah tamper with that type of marketing, great idea Starbucks. And the mermaid, dude she is really freaking me out. Maybe if I was a sailor or even somewhat nautical, I would understand and perhaps appreciate the two tail thing she’s got going on. But I don’t, it freaks me out and looks like Aquaman porn material. It just looks wrong. I mean I always noticed she was holding two things in the logo but never thought it was two tails. One of those; I won’t ask, please don’t tell me just give me my drip and let me be on my way. Now that image is embedded in my head.
The wife learned another interesting fact about the color change. It seems that the new color cups and the color sharpie or local Starbucks uses tend to turn her Non-Fat something (which they typically mark with a ‘N’) into a Vanilla (’V’) something because the N blends in with the color of the cup and looks like a V.
Starbucks, I am sure you are not seeing your business increase as part of th effort, please return back to the colors everyone know and loves and has made you a crazy amount of money of the same color.
Great Mac tar archive tip
Every now and then I just post things I don’t want to forget or worried that the original website might disappear. This is one of the cases. This is a blog posting I came across on a little problem that plaques those of us that enjoy using OS X but have a need to move files to other systems like Linux and Windows.
There is a dirty little secret the Mac hides from you when you are using it but becomes a glaring eyesore when you move to another OS. Some file clean up needs to happen because OSX creates these hidden files that start with a ._ which contains some extended information about the file that no other system reads so they aren’t terrible useful when moving files to these systems. This post from a person working for Splunk, outlines how to tar up files on a OSX machine that is targeted for other systems and exclude the ._ files from the tarring process. Original article can be found here
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When building Splunk applications, I’m often working on a Mac. There
are files that begin with ._ that are resource files, which contain
extended attribute information about the files for the OS. This is
great and all but I don’t want to include these files when I package up
an application and upload it to SplunkBase.
If you don’t have deep OSX knowledge, then keeping these files out
of your tarball is harder than it looks. One of our OSX gurus pointed
me toward the answer, and I was so excited (yes, I am a geek) that I
just had to share.
To build a tarball in Leopard that doesn’t contain the ._ files, use:
COPYFILE_DISABLE=true tar cvzf filename.tar.gz dirtotar
In Tiger, use:
COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true tar czvf filename.tar.gz dirtotar
This is definitely going in my .bashrc so I don’t have to fuss with it again:
export COPYFILE_DISABLE=true
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