iPods, petrol, and things

Cars

My headlight bulb just blew on my Accord, so add that to the list of things I have to fix: a squeaky wheel, a vibration somewhere at the front (which may be something to do with this), and wiper blades to replace.

Music

However, David just got an iPod. I'm starting to feel like a minority, and they're so pretty… just think of the chrome…

I'm also thinking of stereos — Lisa just bought a nice Sharp mini system: 5-disc changer, MP3-capable, aux-in, remote, tape deck, 100W RMS, and pretty, and for only £120 (£107 online)! Tempting.

and more cars

Shell Optimax: 98 RON, apparently. Leaded petrol: 99.7 RON. "Premium" unleaded: 95 RON. So why do people complain about it making their engine stall? I find it a little bit smoother, but I have my reservations. I'll see how I find it after the second tank-full.

Cars get expensive!

Browsers

I have about 34 tabs open in Safari. I've also got at least two bookmarks folders full of things I have to go back to, but have lost patience with having open in a window somewhere. This must stop! Oh, evil interesting web pages, and evil lack of time!

Posted at 2004-03-10 16:17:00 by Richard • Link to iPods, petrol, and…
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Updated ab.py

Well, my Address Book to FOAF converter is improved: it now reads from a FOAF group (so your whole Address Book isn't converted), and it follows the relationships you set. Read the readme or download ab.py.

This means that my FOAF file has been updated.

Posted at 2004-03-10 09:45:24 by Richard • Link to Updated ab.py
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DEVONthink, DEVONnote, ab.py

Got email early this morning telling me what I'd just found out through VersionTracker's RSS feed: new versions of most of the excellent DEVON technologies applications. DEVONthink has a massive list of improvements — I've never seen such a reasonably-priced app continually improve like this. It's faster, more stable, and I've now indexed all 200-odd PDF papers on my hard drive. General improvements all round.

They've also stripped-down some of the functionality, tidied things up, and entered the somewhat crowded personal notepad space with DEVONnote. They're now competing against xPad, NoteTaker, NotePad, not to mention VoodooPad et al. — remember, they've got Wiki-linking now. Lots of special features (it's basically just DT for text), and a decent price, so I'm sure it'll do well.

I've done a little more work on my Address Book script; it now only outputs the people in the FOAF group, so you can restrict your database. I'll be working at extending the functionality, too.

I think I'm too late for Jen Golbeck's t-shirt prize, but I'll do it anyway — so hard to get good data these days!

Posted at 2004-03-10 03:02:36 by Richard • Link to DEVONthink, DEVONn…
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