Archive for February, 2007
Software Development Process
I link this Lisp comic strip
Google Notebook
Maybe I’ve been hiding somewhere for a while, but I just discovered Google Notebook yesterday. In the past, while I’ve been browsing I’ve used a text editor to keep notes for myself, cutting from the webpage and pasting into a text file. Google have a Firefox plugin (I don’t know if it’s available for any other browsers) that allows you to select some text on a web page, right click, and choose “Note this”. This saves the text and the link to a web-based notebook at Google. (You need a Google account.) I’m sure that there are alternatives available that do a similar task, but I haven’t been using them.
So far, this seems pretty good.
Macbook
After months of pondering, I eventually ordered a Macbook Pro. I went for the “low-end” model, 2.16GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. €450 didn’t really make sense for the next model up, and a 17inch screen is just too big for a laptop (in my opinion). Now I just have to wait until it arrives 
trying to supress the urge to check the UPS tracking website every 5 minutes.
When it does arrive I’ll have a bit of learning to do to get use to the Mac way of doing things. Talking of such things, if you’re a Mac user, what software do you use for email, spreadsheet, wordprocessor? I just noticed that Openoffice only runs in X11 for Mac at the moment – which would probably be fine for me anyway.
