If you want your information to keep, you should keep accessing it! This sounds kind of counter-intuitive, because the whole point of archival storage is to make it so that you don’t have to think about your data. But bits rot. Every time you find a better way of doing stuff you should transition all [...]
Archives for April 2005
paper bin
I need an idea bin to keep track of my ideas. My willy nilly thoughts are too scattered otherwise. But I also need a paper bin to keep track of what papers I have read. It should store 3 things – a .pdf or .ps of the file, a .bib with the same name as [...]
keyboard shortcuts
How come GUI applications always require me to hit a control key combination when I want to do something? That’s both stressfull, annoying, and useless. If you are going to have some hotkeys in a GUI, do everyone a favor and make it as much like Pine as possible. In Pine, when you are in [...]
