Jon Aquino's Mental Garden: September 2004

Thursday, September 30, 2004

gtd stop 36:40

One-Dimensional Text-Based GTD Flowchart

What is it?
Not actionable? Trash, reference, someday/maybe, tickler. End.
Multistep? Project. End.
< 2 minutes? Do it. End.
Delegate it? Waiting For. End.
Specific time? Calendar. End.
Next Actions. End.

My picks for Sunday

542 Canticle of the Sun
25 If God Is For Us

Tom McQueeney Weblog - Java Blog

http://www.mcqueeney.com/roller/page/tom/20040930#jdk_5_learning_to_read

z-values

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Wednesday, September 29, 2004

I put my hat in the dresser

Organizing my knapsack, using Morgenstein's method

What's working? Loose change in the top outer pocket; lunchbox in the outer net.

What's not working? Plates with food on it get stuffed into the inside (yuck). Papers enter the knapsack and never leave. Plastic bags are crammed into nooks and crannies. There is no rhyme or reason as to what goes where, or what the spaces are for.

What items are most essential? Loose change, lunchbox, bus schedule, walkman, documents in transit.

Why do I want to organize? Health and sanitary reasons. Having a lightweight pack so it's easier on my back. Having an orderly pack so it's easier on my brain.

What's causing the problems? A "technical error": Items have no home.

Storage units: outer net, outer top pocket, outer left pocket, outer right pocket, PDA pocket, cellphone pocket, pens pocket, chamber 1, chamber 2, chamber 3, inner top pocket

Assignments: Loose change => top pocket, lunchbox => outer net, bus schedule => chamber 1, walkman => chamber 2, documents in transit => chamber 3

Estimated time: 20 minutes

good guit on this song

a reason to start anew, and the reason is you - hoobastank: the reason

Funny video in which someone performs a "spam email" as a drama

http://www.zefrank.com/request/index_better.html

The Old Joel on Software Forum - What makes work fun? Or making work a fun game

Work is about survival. Play is about fun. It's cool when they overlap.

Stick a bunch of people on a world. They've got to do stuff to make
sure they survive. This "stuff" is work. Once things are going well,
they'll have time to do stuff they want to do. This is "play".

So the difference between work and play is the purpose of the
activity. Some activities satisfy only one purpose: work. Some
activities satisfy only the other purpose: play. And some activities
satisfy both purposes: work and play.

We really need to rename both terms. Well, "play" can stay. But let's
stop saying "work" and instead say "survival-activitying". Or I guess
we could say "contributing to society".

http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=52647

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > State of the Art: A Palmtop as Wireless Omnivore

What Jon wants: Palm+phone combo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/technology/circuits/29stat.html?ex=1249185600&en=9c98d77367736aa8&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt

"Not only does skin oil and makeup get on the glass as you hold it up
to your face, but you look as if you're talking into a pocket
calculator. "

Bytecode Outline plugin for Eclipse

http://andrei.gmxhome.de/bytecode/index.html

Vividians who play hacky sack

Eric, Eric, Tim, Martin, Bret

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekjournal.php3?action=view&journalid=1957

www.audiobooksforfree.com

http://www.audiobooksforfree.com/screen_main.asp

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Outline of Julie Morgenstein's "Organizing From The Inside Out"


Analyze

    What's working? Save yourself effort by leaving what works.

    What's not? Whine! Be comprehensive.

    What items are most essential? Big-picture goals. What would you save from a fire?

    Why do you want to organize? Pull out this list when you don't feel like organizing.

    What's causing the problems?

        Technical errors e.g. things don't have a home; things are inconveniently located

        External realities e.g. career change

        Psychological obstacles e.g. sentimental attachment, perfectionism



Strategize (1 hour)

    Kindergarten model: activity zones and fun homes for things

        Define zones (3-5 per room)

        Choose zone locations

        Move furniture

    Estimate time (usually 2 days per room)



Attack

    Sort: do what's visible first; don't purge yet

    Purge

    Assign homes for stuff

    Containerize: aesthetics, manageability, size.  Label containers

    Equalize: daily cleanup; periodic tune-ups

Morgenstein's Attack plan

SPACE

Sort - see what you have; touch everything: use it? love it? Group them. =
(cf analysis phase: why organize?). 3 secrets: do what's visible first. =
Don't purge yet, just group. Focus on 1 section of a room at a time.=20

Purge.=20

Assign a home i.e. pick storage units. 1:1.=20

Containerize (keeps categories separated in homes). aesthetics, size, =
manageability. Label containers.

Equalize: daily cleanup, periodic tune-ups.

Morgenstein on step 2: strategize

strategizing takes an hour

2 secret weapons: kindergarten model - activity zones; fun homes. How? =
Define 3-5 zones/room, assign locations for each zones (follow your =
habits - listen to the clutter), move furniture.

secret weapon#2: estimate time. 2d/room.

Morgenstein on analyzing the organizing problem

What's working? Use what's there a la Torres. Work with your habits.

What's not? Whine thoroughly. Mind sweep. Finish JM's sentences.

What items are most essential? This will help the sorting and purging =
stages. Big-picture goals. Exercise: what would you save from a fire?

Why organize? Pull out this list when I get tired of organizing.

What's causing the problems? Which technical errors, external realities, =
psychological obstacles? Repeat for each organizing situation.

ACME Label Maker

http://www.acme.com/labelmaker/

Notes on organizing the areas in which I live and work

Technical errors:
* things don't have a home
* things are inconveniently located

External realities
*

Psychological issues
* super-creativity - leaving organization systems incomplete
* sentimental attachment
* need for perfection

My Vivid 5-Year Anniversary

On September 27, 1999, a 22-year old student named Jonathan Aquino =
walked into Vivid Solutions, squeezed past the rows of plywood desks =
into the boardroom (now the kitchen), and talked with Todd Warnes, Dave =
Ash, and Martin Davis about working for Vivid.

Today is my 5-year anniversary! Yay for me!

Msgr M's homily

rich man and lazarus

To Jesus, more important than wealth or poverty is caring for people.

The sin is indifference.

A Java API to read, write and modify Excel spreadsheets

http://www.andykhan.com/jexcelapi/

Bea's picks for Oct 10

Readings: gratitude, faithfulness, thanksgiving
- E: I sing the mighty power
- R: Let all things now living

The reason for the old SDGW transactions happening - I had removed then re-added the replication (setting the last transaction id to 0).

Solution: before doing incrementals, do a refresh first. This will push the last transaction id to the end.

The reason for the old SDGW transactions happening - I had removed then re-added the replication (setting the last transaction id to 0).

Solution: before doing incrementals, do a refresh first.

BeanShell for JUMP UI testing

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if (feature.getAttribute("SrcState").equals("Matched (Reference)")) bit1 = "1";
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if (feature.getAttribute("SrcState").equals("Matched (Non-Reference)")) bit5 = "1";
}
}
if (wc.layerManager.getLayer("Vertex Transfer Vectors") != null) bit6 = "1";
print(bit0+bit1+bit2+bit3+bit4+bit5+bit6);
}

BeanShell for JUMP UI testing

Monday, September 27, 2004

Essential GIMP for Web Professionals

http://authors.phptr.com/essential/gimp/

Plan for teaching Torres rules

(Based on "The Finer Points of Teaching Rules" by Mario Lanza)

Set up the board and components.

Distill the game down to a few sentences. (Less than a minute.) "We will be taking turns moving knights around the board and adding blocks to the board, trying to get the knights as high as possible on the biggest castles."

Paint an overview for the whole game. (1 to 3 minutes.) "Core Rules & Mechanics. On your turn, you have five 'action points' to spend. You can use these action points to bring a knight onto the board, move a knight on the board, bring a block onto the board, play a card, or advance your scoring marker one space. Scoring. Your score will be the height of your knight multiplied by the area of the castle. (Example). Chronology. When you've spent your 5 action points, it will be Dale's turn, then my turn, and so forth in a circle. After we've each had three turns, we will score. Then we will have another three turns, and score. Then a final three turns, and score. Game end. Then the game ends."

Expand the overview using details—the finer points: Highest knight scores (show). Other players' knights score. King's bonus (show). Action costs.

Cover the exceptions, if any. Fiddly details about each action (show). Choose any stack; redistribution (show). Who starts. Master card.

Teach basic strategies and offer "fair warning." (1 or 2 minutes.) Try to stay in a castle someone else has built rather than expending effort building one yourself (show). Make it hard for others to move higher than you e.g. with guard knight (show). Prevent others from shimmying (show).

Sunday, September 26, 2004

examine evidence, take different perspective, tolerate
uncertainty/ambiguity, test hypothesis, prevent ritual

Jon's Perfectionism Diary

Situation:
Emotions:
Perfectionistic Thoughts:
Alternative Thoughts:
Evaluating Perfectionistic Thoughts and Alternative Thoughts:
Choosing a More Realistic and Helpful Perspective:

GeekList: Game Group Personalities

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=713

"I use Evite.com to plan my gaming nights."

GeekList: Re-writing History: A Look-Back BGG Hall of Fame

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=4495

GeekList: Useful Meta-Lists

Here's the meta-meta-meta list I made this morning. I am proud of it.

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=4515

Welcome to biblediagrams.com

Dave, Judi - this stuff's good if you're a visual person like me.

http://www.biblediagrams.com/diagrams/index.htm

wallstreetscandals.gif (GIF Image, 1000x750 pixels)

http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/wallstreetscandals.gif

JUMP

http://62.153.231.87/alk/edbs2wkt/help/jump.htm

Welcome to threetwoone.org

http://www.threetwoone.org/diagrams/

Great Works in Programming Languages

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/courses/670Fall04/GreatWorksInPL.html

Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill

http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/2/9/6/12962/12962-h/12962-h.htm

Saturday, September 25, 2004

The Emperor's New Mind by Penrose, Gardner

Hey, Penrose has helped me to understand Godel's theorem! That's a mind bender, that one!

When Perfect Isn't Good Enough by Antony, Swinson

I sense that this book is going to change my life.

The exact time at which summer turned to autumn.

That alien thing in the center sticking way up turns out to be a crane under construction.

Game o' Torres. I'm pretty far ahead of Dale. But the dog ended up beating me by a couple of points.

Mom's new oriental lamp. Nice reading spot!

I'm so grateful to the Eclipse team for their open-source IDE. Good job, y'all!

The boyz sharing a laugh.

I get annoyed when the computer freezes, even for a few seconds. Imagine if your neurons had a millisecond delay?

What's on our piano.

I get pretty frustrated with this kind of packaging (the sealed-hard-plastic kind). You can hurt yourself opening one of these puppies!

Almost near the end of a game of El Grande.

The end of our El Grande game -- Dale and Yasuhiro tie for top spot. Karrie and I are a bit behind.

Clay rocket I made in middle school.

Mom's hosting a wedding shower tonite.

plastic bugs

http://www.plasticbugs.com/

Sacred Heart Music, 2004-09-25

42Capo1
541I sing the mighty
540Guit on v3
601squick strum on v, refrain, faith hill on refrain
187City Eb. Drop last bar ofrefrain
ga: go up on became

Cool video of guy driving from LA to New York - sped up so it only takes 2 minutes.

http://www.lacquersound.com/english/opener1.html

Games that Dale and I are considering

traders, aladdin's, java, age of napoleon

Free Conversion To Acrobat PDF: PrimoPDF - RG News

GeekList: Geeklists About Number Of Players

I made this list! It points to other GeekLists about the best games
for given numbers of players.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=4488

GeekList: If I own Game X, do I need Game A B or C?

http://boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=3219

The Finer Points of Teaching Rules

http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/TeachingRules.shtml

Friday, September 24, 2004

Good games for 4

Torres, Taj, St. Peters, Acquire, Puerto, Tigris

Enemy Images

http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/enemy_image.jsp

"The best (perhaps the only) way to avoid enemy images is to keep the
parties together, trying to work out their problems."

Cool video of expert hacky-sack players

The one on the right is Steve Blough, the inventor of Blough-Chi

http://www.footbagging.com/jump.mov

G4tv.com - Press Releases - VIRTUAL HOCKEY SEASON TO AIR ON G4TECHTV

http://www.g4techtv.com/html/about/press/showrelease.asp?pressrelease_key=59

SourceForge.net: beanshell-users

Simply the Best fonts downloads free fonts library font archive font downloads

morguefile :: archive - photography course

morguefile :: archive

Fiddly El Grande things to remember

- Caballeros go either into region neighbouring the king's region or into the castillo
- Grande bonus
- King bonus
- shorter game: skip rounds 1, 4, 7
- 2 players: use only first number on scoreboard; 3 players, first and second numbers

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard by Lake Software

Not sure whether this is better than the Windows XP virtual keyboard,
but it's got transparency, macros, and you can customize the button
locations. And it's free.

http://www.lakefolks.org/cnt/

Technology Pioneered By and For People With Disabilities Benefits Everyone

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/07-26access.asp

You were inquiring about possible places to work. Well you might be
interested to read this:

""By the same token, Microsoft is committed to employing people with
disabilities, in part because their perspective really helps us build
better products for everyone," Lowney says"

Fiddly Torres Things To Remember

Add knight - 2AP. Beside and not above existing knight.
Move knight - over, over and up, or through
Place block - max castle height: area
Acquire card - max 2 cards per turn
Play card - max 1 card per turn; can't play on same turn acquired
Advance scoring marker - max 1 marker per space

Move Block card - 6-castle minimum

After turn - redistribute blocks; max stack height: 3
After scoring - in basic version, last-place player starts; in master version, first-place player starts

Google Search: "board games" near Victoria, BC

This is cool: using Google Local to find board game stuff around Victoria.

http://local.google.ca/local?hl=en&q=%22board+games%22&near=Victoria%2C+BC&btnG=Search

BEN FRY

Matt Henderson's Blog: Getting Things Done

http://matt.makalumedia.com/archives/000426.html

MetaVNC -- a window-aware VNC

http://metavnc.sourceforge.net/

Waxy.org: Daily Log: Kleptones, "Night at the Hip-Hopera"

Department Store Music

http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/kresge.html

Age of Napoleon instructions ...

The instructions for AoN are more comprehensive than our other games
-- check it out and let me know what you think:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=6601

GeekList: Tom and Debbie's Favorite Two Player Games

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=1966

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

GeekList: "Acquired Excellence" -- Persistence pays off...

GeekList: Tom and Debbie's Favorite Two Player Games

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=1966

And the 10 Torres master cards

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewfile.php3?fileid=6473

GeekList: Plays Great with 2, 3, 4 and More !!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=768

viewfile.php3 (application/pdf Object)

viewfile.php3 (application/pdf Object)

Torres stuff to remember:
* max stack height: 3
* one way to move up: 1 level per move; not when going through castles
* max castle height: castle surface area
* can't play card in the same turn it is acquired
* 1 scoring marker per scoring space
* scoring: 1 of your knights for castle score, 1 of your knights for king's bonus
* after scoring: lowest scorer may move king, then starts the next turn

Torres options:
* Add block (1 AP), redistribute . Max castle height: area. Max stack height: 3.
* Add knight (2 AP)
* Move knight over (and up) or through (1 AP)
* Advance marker (1 AP). 1 marker per space.
* Play card (once per turn)

GeekList: Need Help Finding Medium Complexity Games To Play With My Wife

A visual history of spam (and virus) email

Welcome to GIANTmicrobes!

Train Mountain World Record Attempts

Bob - I thought of you when I saw this one.

http://www.livesteaming.com/Train%20Mountain%20World%20Record%20Attempts.htm

Faster and Easier Text Entry for Tablet PCs

This is what I use on my Palm. Takes up very little screen real estate
-- there are only 9 boxes, and they translate to every letter of the
alphabet using various clicks and swipes. Steep learning curve, steep
price, and I'm not sure if it would be easy for a mouse emulator. But
it might be what you're looking for.

http://www.exideas.com/ME/Pressfolder/PressReleaseDec2-2003.html

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="JCoverage Buildfile" default="main" basedir=".">
<taskdef classpath="c:\jcoverage-1.0.5\jcoverage.jar" resource="tasks.properties"/>

<target name="instrument">
<delete dir="instrumented-classes"/>
<instrument todir="instrumented-classes">
<fileset dir="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts">
<include name="**/*.class"/>
<exclude name="test/**/*.*"/>
</fileset>
</instrument>
</target>

<target name="main">

<junit fork="on">
<classpath location="c:\jcoverage-1.0.5\jcoverage.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\Acme.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\jdom.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xercesImpl.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xml-apis.jar"/>
<classpath location="c:\jakarta-log4j-1.2.8\dist\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar"/>
<classpath location="instrumented-classes"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts\test"/>
<formatter type="plain" usefile="false"/>
<test name="test.jts.junit.MasterTester"/>
</junit>

<java fork="on" classname="com.vividsolutions.jtstest.testrunner.TopologyTestApp">
<arg line="-Files w:\dev_run\JTS\current\test\validate"/>
<classpath location="c:\jcoverage-1.0.5\jcoverage.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\Acme.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\jdom.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xercesImpl.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xml-apis.jar"/>
<classpath location="c:\jakarta-log4j-1.2.8\dist\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar"/>
<classpath location="instrumented-classes"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts\test"/>
</java>

<java fork="on" classname="com.vividsolutions.jtstest.testrunner.TopologyTestApp">
<arg line="-Files w:\dev_run\JTS\current\test\vivid"/>
<classpath location="c:\jcoverage-1.0.5\jcoverage.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\Acme.jar"/>
<classpath location="w:\dev_run\JTS\current\lib\jdom.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xercesImpl.jar"/>
<classpath location="u:\jaquino\cvs\conflate\lib\xml-apis.jar"/>
<classpath location="c:\jakarta-log4j-1.2.8\dist\lib\log4j-1.2.8.jar"/>
<classpath location="instrumented-classes"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts"/>
<classpath location="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts\test"/>
</java>

<report srcdir="c:\eclipse-deprecated-2004-05-25\workspace\jts" destdir="coverage"/>
</target>

</project>

Untitled Document

Rich Language: The Editing Process

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

5th Dene

Yo, people from 5th Dene at UBC -- I miss you guys!

Rob Kim, Jason Chabot, Julian Tang, Ernest Salcedo, Michael Fahey, Ryan Voegeli...

OrganizedHome.Com - clean house, cut clutter, get organized!

This is what a Dutch Bakery German Black Forest Cake looks like after mom "healthifies" it.

GeekList: Good three player games

Hall of Technical Documentation Weirdness

Jesse Ruderman: Google search tip: wildcard word (*)

Transformers: A History

EmacsWiki: EmacsNewbie

Design bloopers: User Experience Resource Collection

Bruce Eckel's MindView, Inc: "Cygwin Prompt Here"

Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Secret Worlds: The Universe Within - Interactive Java Tutorial

Transformers: A History

My picks

samurai, through the desert, san marco

My picks

samurai, through the desert, san marco

Ji-Hwan likes set-collection games, (he likes Halli Galli i.e. lighter stuff), so maybe St. Petersburg, High Society, or Taj would be good?

Groooooovy Babe: Jazzing Up Plain Old Java

Groooooovy Babe: Jazzing Up Plain Old Java: "AntBuilder"

CodeColorizer -- The online source code syntax highlighter for ASP C C Clipper Delphi HTML Java JavaScript Pascal Visual Basic

Dad's prayers

act of contrition
3 hail mary's - purity of soul and body
things to thank for - life, day
father, hail mary, glory be for special intentions
eja: st. x pray for us
into your hands

morn: same thing: morning off

Monday, September 20, 2004

Slashdot | Tracking The (English) Words We Use

Sunday, September 19, 2004

GeekBuddy Analysis for Hansa

Hmm -- Hansa is getting good reviews. All GeekBuddies are giving it 8.
Looks like a 45-minute Clans-like game.

http://boardgamegeek.com/geekbuddy.php3?action=doanalyze&gameid=8989

BoardgameGeek Collection for Derk Solko

Whoa - Derk Solko likes Torres, Magna Grecia (the ugly but deep game),
and Java (Greg Schloesser doesn't like Java though). Hmm!

http://boardgamegeek.com/viewcollection.php3?username=derk&own=both&rated=1&comment=both&trade=both&want=both&rating=&startletter=ALL&orderby=quickrating&dir=-1

BoardgameGeek Collection for Greg Schloesser

Whoa, Torres rates super-highly on Greg Schloesser's list of games.
Let's get this one! ... sometime. Though I really do like the
abstracts like Yinsh.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewcollection.php3?username=gschloesser&own=both&rated=1&comment=both&trade=both&want=both&rating=&startletter=ALL&orderby=quickrating&dir=-1

"Java"

richclients.org - Rich Internet Applications - News

The gift that lasts -- placemats from Takeshi.

Who's this silly bugger?

"The pit". @church.

This is a Filipino footbag called a Sipa. Mom made it out of shredded paper, some coins, and a rubber band.

Ji-Hwan did a bang-up job on painting the house numbers.

Yummy pasta! Thanks mom!

Pixagogo - Blue Note: Over 1000 great jazz album covers

Hi John - Thought you'd like this.

http://www.pixagogo.com/7180565202

Msgr M's homily

money is a good servant but a ruthless master.

- awareness needed
surtax

2: Gipf, Schotten, TTD, Hex, LOTR Confrontation

3: TTD, San Marco, High Society, Samurai

William Head Music, September 19, 2004

If God is for us GP 100
Earthen Vessels GP 64
Send Us YOur Spirit G 189
The Lord is My Shepherd G 274
Let Us BUild the City of God G 294

Footbag: Kicking the Habit of Competition (by Todd "Spike" Reinhard) - Natural Physiques: Articles

GeekList: Game Complaints

Saturday, September 18, 2004

48 - Sing To The Mountains

59 - You Are Near

146 - Speak Lord

91 - Come To Me All Who Are Weary

Sacred Heart Music, September 18, 2004

91 - Come To Me All Who Are Weary
http://www.audioblogger.com/media/26902/96073.mp3
- Carey Landry meets Jan Arden

146 - Speak Lord
http://www.audioblogger.com/media/26902/96077.mp3
- Standard alternative country fare

59 - You Are Near
http://www.audioblogger.com/media/26902/96085.mp3
- Not too slow
- Quiet down on refrain

48 - Sing To The Mountains
http://www.audioblogger.com/media/26902/96086.mp3
- Not too quick, now!

Bro - Tell Pam that I like Microsoft Money (she was asking about it a few months ago) ...

... It's good, as long as you stay away from the Budget feature, which
screws up your data (!). Instead, record recurring payments using the
Bills & Deposits feature.

The cool thing about Microsoft Money is that once you've set up your
recurring Bills & Deposits, it shows you a "cashflow graph" i.e. how
your money will go up and down in the future (I don't think Quicken
has this). Very nice for visual people like me! All I gotta do is make
sure my "low point" for the year is above 0!

I don't like selecting the music - though I like the playing/singing of it

I don't know why, but I get stressed choosing music. Would you be
willing to select the four songs for tomorrow? (We could even use
Saturday's if you wanted).

Hey Dale -- here's a sample of some of the audio books they have at the library near Save-On.

More audiobooks from the Emily Carr branch

And yet more audiobooks

I was surprised to encounter this little beast a stone's throw from home.

International� 7300 CXT;

TIME.com Print Page: Inside Business -- The End Of Management?

I don't know what this is about, but lots of people find it
interesting and it looks like something you'd be interested in too.

http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/printout/0,8816,1101040712-660965,00.html

Button Maker :: Kalsey Consulting Group

Shoulder Dolly�

The Game of Y

Poly-Y

*Star

http://ea.ea.home.mindspring.com/*Star.html

The abstract board game Hex

http://www.krammer.nl/hex/

http://www.officeinabucket.co.uk/

Interesting scrobblings.

Plan for the week.

Yay, empty inbox! Thanks GTD!

Docking station for my knapsack.

Proud owner.

Jason's and Eric's bikes

The car Mom was telling Martin about.

A day in the life.

Yay, new lamp for Jon. $15 at Staples.

More birds of a feather (if you look closely)

Birds of a feather . . .

The day I slipped on the berm walking to the bus.

Cool bikes belonging to a couple of guys at work.

Me in my rain-configuration.

Those mystery orcas that keep popping up around Victoria.

The Vivid canteen, source of Kit Kats, Wunderbars, and other goodness.

Love the name of this bus.

Friday, September 17, 2004

Europe Travelblog��Java Code Coverage Tools Evaluation

Europe Travelblog��Java Code Coverage Tools Evaluation: "Java Code Coverage Tools Evaluation"

JFolder

http://www.jfolder.com/

g4j - GMail API For Java

http://g4j.sourceforge.net/

EMMA: a free Java code coverage tool

http://emma.sourceforge.net/

Imvu Welcome

http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_index.php

Shell (sh,ksh,bash) scripting in 20 pages

http://www.quong.com/shellin20/

Windopaene's World - Game Reviews

This guy seems to have the same taste in board games that we do:
Tigris, Tikal, Torres . . .

http://www.pacifier.com/%7Emillerb1/reviews.html

Java2Html converter

http://www.java2html.de/applet.html

Google Search: java "syntax highlighted" online

keyword:java%20%22syntax%20highlighted%22%20online

Thursday, September 16, 2004

GeekList: My favorite games are Go, Netrunner, and Gipf... what should I buy next?

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=2172

"Magna Grecia"

Good boardgame store recommendations at the bottom

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=1004

Saving Dinner

Mom - check this out - you might really like it!

http://savingdinner.com/menumailer.html

GeekList: Brainlock Time !!! Games that cause brain seziures and loss of motor functions !!

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=4330

That, and eating a chocolate bar!

Hmm ...

I find that when I feel nauseous at the computer, talking with someone
(e.g. having a status meeting) helps a lot for some reason ... Maybe
it's a need for social interaction?

GeekList: Great games are still great after many sessions?

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=3054

"Tamsk"

GeekList: Games that SHINE with 3 players

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=26

Wednesday, September 15, 2004

stop work 537

torres, alladin, el grande, schotten

Yeah, Torres looks good.

Re: Hi Liza, Hi Vic

Hi Vic - I was amused with your usual humour. I dread the memory of
the Rits thanksgiving.

These days I am trying to improve myself - spiritually (rosary),
mentally (board games), physically (hacky sack), socially (relevant
books). I am also taking pride in getting organized - sorting out my
papers and the objects in my drawers. I'm really excited about a
time-management book called Getting Things Done - it's popular these
days; have you heard of it?

Jon

Games for 3 I want to play: Tigris, Goa, Princes

Games for 2 I want to play: Gipf, Schotten Totten

SHriMP User Manual | the CHISEL group

http://www.thechiselgroup.org/shrimp/manual

A9.com Search: board games

A9 is such a cool search engine. You get Google results down the left
column, images down the middle column, and definitions down the right
column.

http://a9.com/board%20games

LazyWeb idea #1: A Java thingee for Java apps that monitors all UI actions, and initializes text fields with their most frequently typed-in values. Careful with passwords though!

LazyWeb idea #2: PushThatFreakinButton extension for Firefox

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

es1868f

Potential storage areas

under the bed
bookshelf
bookshelf cabinets
on top of the bookshelf
nine dresser drawers
under the computer table
under the secondary computer tables

My Zones

Activities	Supplies
Computer	printer, paper, recycling bin, blank CDs, disks, scanner, router, modem
Music	music stand, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, small amplifier, large amplifier, effects box, song books and sheet music, music stand, violin, cassette recorder, blank cassettes
Praying	bible, rosary
Sleeping	blankets, pillows
Reading	my books, library books, lamp
Writing	stationery, paper, files
Planning	whiteboard, markers

Other stuff: trash, keyboard, Meccano, Lego, Knex, phone, answering machine, water bottles, walkmans, discmans, cassettes

Project: Organizing My Room

What's Working

Having broad categories for the books in my bookshelf has worked for the past few months.
Dumping all the stationery into a drawer hasn't produced any problems.

What's Not Working

Dresser drawers are a mess inside
Need a lamp for reading
Secondary computer and its surroundings -- taking up valuable space, it seems.
Trying to find a given CD.

What Items Are Most Essential To Me?

using the computer, practicing music, praying, sleeping, reading

I can never find papers I need.

I am tired of looking for the thing I need right now.

I can't open some of my drawers because of the clutter.

The disorganization makes me feel ashamed.

When people visit my room, I feel embarassed.

Why do I want to get organized?

Stop spending so much time looking for things
Increase my self-confidence
Gain energy and calm from my space

The Morning News - Trailers for Everyday Life

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/stories/trailers_for_everyday_life.php

HOW TO STUDY

http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/howtostudy.html

spring_map.png (PNG Image, 2443x1594 pixels)

http://www.csupomona.edu/~jelerma/springfield/spring_map.png

Jon's Morning Routine

Rise and Shine

Make your bed.
Wash up.

Think About Your Day

Check your calendar, action lists.

Now Think About Yourself

Hacky-sack with Yasuhiro

Monday, September 13, 2004

Bro, my room is clean and with any luck it's going to stay that way ...

... with the help of this website: http://www.flylady.net

FlyLady says that if you have energy to do nothing else, at least
shine your sink: "When you get up the next morning, your sink will
greet you and a smile will come across your lovely face. I can't be
there to give you a big hug, but I know how good it feels to see
yourself in your kitchen sink. So each morning this is my gift to
you."

Check it out, if you are so inclined!

Love, Jon

Jon's Before Bed Routine

Footbag
Clear hot-spots
Wash lunchbox
Review calendar: yesterday, today, tomorrow
Process In
Check Tickler
Sync PPC, camera
Get ready for bed.
Merienda
Bible
Rosary
Read

data for Mom's album

dates (including day), pics, assignments and notes, calendar

bag => kit

Monsignor Michael's homily

prodigal son. scandalizes pharisees.

habit of forgiving. [me: perhaps forgiveness = dropping enemy images]

What I want for christmas: Canon digital camera with movie+sound

I took a movie of Mom driving around, but unfortunately there is no
sound so you don't get "I wonder how your brother is" or "Look at
those rhodos!".

Free Online Unicode Character Map

http://www-atm.physics.ox.ac.uk/user/iwi/charmap.html

JGraph - The Java Open Source Graph Visualization Component Suite

http://www.jgraph.com/

SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating

http://www.seatguru.com/

Sunday, September 12, 2004

Dave and Pam's Bonsai in a central location.

Two of my favourite things.

Thursday, September 30, 2004

One-Dimensional Text-Based GTD Flowchart

My picks for Sunday

Tom McQueeney Weblog - Java Blog

z-values

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

Organizing my knapsack, using Morgenstein's method

good guit on this song

Funny video in which someone performs a "spam email" as a drama

The Old Joel on Software Forum - What makes work fun? Or making work a fun game

The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > State of the Art: A Palmtop as Wireless Omnivore

Bytecode Outline plugin for Eclipse

Vividians who play hacky sack

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geekjournal.php3?action=view&journalid=1957

www.audiobooksforfree.com

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Outline of Julie Morgenstein's "Organizing From The Inside Out"

Morgenstein's Attack plan

Morgenstein on step 2: strategize

ACME Label Maker

Notes on organizing the areas in which I live and work

My Vivid 5-Year Anniversary

Msgr M's homily

A Java API to read, write and modify Excel spreadsheets

Bea's picks for Oct 10

BeanShell for JUMP UI testing

BeanShell for JUMP UI testing

Monday, September 27, 2004

Essential GIMP for Web Professionals

Plan for teaching Torres rules

Sunday, September 26, 2004

This is a board game I played this evening. It was fun.

Complexity of rules

Good list of 2-player games, and their durations

Jon's Perfectionism Diary

GeekList: Game Group Personalities

GeekList: Re-writing History: A Look-Back BGG Hall of Fame

GeekList: Useful Meta-Lists

Welcome to biblediagrams.com

wallstreetscandals.gif (GIF Image, 1000x750 pixels)

JUMP

Welcome to threetwoone.org

Great Works in Programming Languages

Hand Shadows by Henry Bursill

Saturday, September 25, 2004

plastic bugs

Sacred Heart Music, 2004-09-25

Cool video of guy driving from LA to New York - sped up so it only takes 2 minutes.

Games that Dale and I are considering

GeekList: Geeklists About Number Of Players

GeekList: If I own Game X, do I need Game A B or C?

The Finer Points of Teaching Rules

Friday, September 24, 2004

Good games for 4

Enemy Images

Cool video of expert hacky-sack players

G4tv.com - Press Releases - VIRTUAL HOCKEY SEASON TO AIR ON G4TECHTV

Fiddly El Grande things to remember

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Click-N-Type Virtual Keyboard by Lake Software

Technology Pioneered By and For People With Disabilities Benefits Everyone

Fiddly Torres Things To Remember

Google Search: "board games" near Victoria, BC

Matt Henderson's Blog: Getting Things Done

MetaVNC -- a window-aware VNC

Department Store Music

Age of Napoleon instructions ...

GeekList: Tom and Debbie's Favorite Two Player Games

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

GeekList: Tom and Debbie's Favorite Two Player Games

And the 10 Torres master cards

GeekList: Plays Great with 2, 3, 4 and More !!

Train Mountain World Record Attempts

Faster and Easier Text Entry for Tablet PCs

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

5th Dene

My picks

My picks

Dad's prayers

Monday, September 20, 2004