Dossier

I'm testing a new application called Dossier for Mac OS X. It is a journal application that allows you to optionally post entries to Blogger. Great idea, let's see how it works. Seems like the application is focused on workgroups (with dossier sharing for local networks), but I'll try to use it in the local setting.

I always carry a paper notebook with me, and it's how I document my life. I've got notebooks back from 1992, and I've been trying to figure out how to preserve and learn from the notes, pictures, and observations trapped within them. I scan important drawings, notes, etc., but that is very time consuming. If I ever take a long break from work (my long dreamed of one year sabbatical) I'll probably distill all of these notebooks over a year looking for gems of wisdom on work, life, and personal code projects...

Furthermore, I've been searching for the electronic replacement for the paper notebook for some time. I used a Newton, IBM/Cross inkPad, etc., but nothing has been useful to me. I think a TabletPC might be the answer, but at $2000, it's quite an expensive experiment. I wish I had my notes in an electronic form that I could quickly post to the Internet or use in my projects. Ah, someone will figure this out sooner or later.

It's over

So ends the 10 year run of Friends. The last episode wasn't everything I was hoping for, but it was still a great ending. I liked how it just ended.

I'm pretty sure that I'm going to turn off Tivo and DirectTV now. Not that Friends was the end point for my consumption of commercial television, but it sorta was. I think I'm going to sell of my current generation gear, and go without television through the Fall. Then if I miss it I'm going to upgrade to HDTV and the entire overhaul of equipment it will entail. But who knows, maybe I'll finally cut my lifelong addiction to television. As much as television is nice, I've been thinking that television is comsumption, but life is measured by creation...

This is actually a test blog as well as a real update, as I just changed hosting companies, and I need to make sure that blogging is working properly. Always mixing work with pleasure ;-)