Wow, this looks like a very cool DHTML app for doing GtD

GTDTiddlyWiki

Simple and elegant and cool animation too. I am definitely going to have to play with this some more.

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My Toshiba A45-S250, an otherwise fine laptop which I love, started acting up a bit last night.

My wife reported a lot of apps crashing randomly and a BSoD. It sounds a lot like a problem I was having several months ago where the fan was not coming on when it was supposed to and things were getting very hot. I purchased an extended warranty at the time and then strangely the problems went away

This time I began copying documents on to my Maxtor OneTouch II 300 GB drive as a precaution in case it dies completely or I have to send it out for repairs. I might also reimage the sucker and then put apps back one by one to get rid of the accumulated gunk from all of the software that I’ve experimented with. This time I’d love to install all the stuff that I use - XP SP2, Microsoft Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, PuTTY, WinSCP, SlickRun, Yahoo! Messenger, IrfanView, iTunes, PDFCreator, MultiTimer, YAC, Cygwin, Quick Zip, TreeSize - and then use an imaging program such as Ghost to create a baseline image.

Anybody want to recommend an imaging program? It seems that Ghost was at one time a popular choice in corporate IT, but I seem to recall reading a magazine review that was extolling the virtues of Drive Image (made by PowerQuest, which was acquired by Symantec in December of 2003) over Ghost. But when I did a search for Drive Image, even the link on PowerQuest’s page is a redirect to Ghost, saying “Now with Drive Image-technology!”.

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Alex of TiVoBlog.com asked for volunteers to post to the site and keep it fresh. There’s a group of 3 or 4 of us who just got access yesterday. Now the question is - what to blog about?

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Yesterday, I bought an EZ Media V.90/V.92 Intel 536EP based modem for $10 that claims to have Caller ID on the box, but I haven’t managed to get it work with YAC or CallTrace or manually with HyperTerm. This is after updating to Intel’s latest drivers (both from Windows Update and directly from Intel’s site). A search on the Net showed that everyone and their mother is having trouble getting caller id to work with modems based on this chipset, so I am not too optimistic…

I am hoping that there are some secret initialization strings or drivers that can get this to work?

TiVoCommunity post

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Interesting little extension that lets you download a bunch of “user scripts” which let you customize aspects of web sites that are annoying or broken. Or add little integration points to other sites.

http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

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Interesting music gadget.

M-Audio Black Box : Gizmodo

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This page has some interesting-looking gcc cross-compiler building tools. It caught my attention, because it supposedly can be used to build a cross-compiler for the Linksys WRT54G (MIPS) routers and someday I’d like to do a bit more messing around with mine.

http://www.kegel.com/crosstool/

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