Failing to find any free software task manager I could live with, I created my own over the December holidays. I called it “Tody”. It’s a simple GUI app, focused on quick searching, editing, and tagging for tasklists. The file format it uses is identical to the plain text format used by Gina Trapani’s Todo.txt [...]
Category Archives: experiment
Free Software for Task Management
2011/12/12 – 2:40 pm
I am perpetually trying out online task management tools. My never-ending quest is to tame the massive sea of things I should be doing at any given moment, both making sure that important tasks don’t get lost in the mix, and to extract a reduction more closely approximating “the most important thing to accomplish right [...]
Mythbusters – UEFI and Linux (Part 2)
2011/11/16 – 10:54 pm
Following up on my earlier post on UEFI and Linux, I got access to an identical system to the one with the original problem (an HP S5-1110) this week to do some install testing with various scenarios: 1) When I run through the standard install process with the Kubuntu 11.10 amd64 CD, I get exactly [...]
Quixperiment: Ubuntu and iPod
2011/11/06 – 11:41 am
I have an old iPod that I occasionally use on car trips, but haven’t really modified in years (it mostly sits on a shelf). This morning I decided to play around a bit with hooking it up with my main Ubuntu desktop. I found a good list of options for managing an iPod in Linux [...]
