I find these ‘links for’ posts on people’s sites rather annoying. They are a list of that person’s recent links on del.icio.us. I imagine it’s only a subset of all recent ones, but that doesn’t make me dislike them less.

I dislike them for three reasons:

1. Not only do I read some of these people’s sites, I also subscribe to their del.icio.us feeds. I end up getting the list twice.
2. The formatting of these posts is difficult for me to read. All the tags are underlined and the tags of the previous item but up against the underlined heading of the next item. Granted, I could adjust NetNewsWire’s stylesheet to make the links less noticeable, but I wrote that stylesheet to be how it is for a reason.
3. I feel it’s a duplication of information. If you want to provide that information to people, link to it on your site and let people search your del.icio.us bookmarks. Send out a little post informing all your readers that if you want to continue getting the bookmarks, subscribe to the feed directly from del.icio.us.

Maybe I’ll just write a script to filter out those posts.

I currently use Kinkless’ kGTD in OmniOutliner. I actually purchased a license to OmniOutliner because I thought the Kinkless system sounded very good - and it has been. I like that it’s a file on my computer that will go with me everywhere. I sync it up with a remote copy so I can get to the most current version at home and at work.

While searching around for other geeky goodies last night, I stumbled upon a web-based application for the GTD system called gtd-php. As the name implies, it’s written in PHP, stores all your contexts, actions, and projects in a MySQL database. It’s light and I was up and running with it in no time. It’s currently at version 0.2, so there’s a ways to go, but right now it has all the features you need to get things done. The only downside is that I cannot edit my contexts. When I added in my contexts from kGTD, I hadn’t realized yet that gtd-php has the ‘waiting for’ and ’someday’ contexts built in. I had to go into MySQL and remove those two contexts manually. Aside from that, it looks looked promising.

… And the markup is table-less and uses a good amount of CSS. I haven’t had a chance to dig around in it to gauge the quality; however, it’s nice to see a new app go this route.

Update: (2006-07-25) This program has a ton of code problems. You cannot enter text that has an apostrophe or quotes in it because the queries to the database don’t escape quotes. It randomly didn’t save my next actions. I attempted to clean up the PHP to correct these things so I could use it (instead of coming up with clever names for actions to avoid using quotes). However, I decided I’d have to redo the entire code to get it working as it should. Not really worth the effort when Kinkless will work for me as I need it to know. I’ve been back on Kinkless now for a few weeks. It really a nice system for Mac peeps.

I’ve taken a new full-time job. I work for Threespot. I’m a front-end developer and do some backend programming. I started last week. It’s been a fast and furious first week, but it’s been fun. It’s a good group of people.

Read more about the firm here:
http://www.designinteract.com/features/threespot/.

O’Reilly has just released O’Reilly Connection, a web application that connects people in the technology world. Useful for those who are looking for work or people. Check it out, sign up, and connect to me.

Welcome to the redesigned treevis.com. I decided to give WordPress a try and have put 90% of the site inside it. For those who might not know, WordPress is a blogging software written in PHP. I’m a PHP guy, so it’s a logical choice. Also, it’s open-source and I’ve had a good time customizing it to some of my needs. I also developed a custom treevis theme for this site. I’ll eventually release it to the public, so stay tuned for that.

I’ve changed the focus to align more with my interests in the web and urban planning. The site will house a collection of thoughts and experiments in planning and web development.

I hope you like the new look.