January 31st:

	Out of curiosity, last night I tried logging into SDF's Mastodon 
server with Nadia (my Powerbook G3 Lombard) in TenFourFox.  It loaded 
fairly quickly, rendered perfectly, and scrolled smoothly.  It took 
*forever* to type out a message, though... the text displayed so slowly 
that I thought I was back in the 300 baud days!

It *does* work, though, and I don't see much reason not to use Nadia to 
log in.  I may try cutting and pasting text from TextEdit into Mastodon's 
message entry box to see if that speeds up the posting process.  When 
there's a will, there's a way!

In other news, I've been referenced in kvothe's phlog (see footnote)!  He 
mentioned one of my previous posts wherein I detailed the software I use 
on Nadia, and mentioned some of his Daily Carry.  I was particularily 
interested in the Moleskine notepad.  Being a sometime writer and 
compulsive doodler, this appealed to me.  I'm a huge fan of paper 
planners, and carry either a Daytimer or Dayrunner daily planner with me 
everywhere I go.  Rather than buy half a year's worth of daily refills for 
$30 CAD at Staples, I print my own two-page-per-day sheets on the laser 
printer at work, and punch them with a 7-hole punch I bought for a fiver 
on eBay.

If you're a fan of paper planners as I am, you might want to check out the 
DIY Planner site at http://diyplanner.com.  There, you can download 
templates for all manner of stationary and planner-related purposes, as 
well as their Dynamic Template program that lets you create daily planner 
pages for any day/month/year in a variety of formats.  It's free and it's 
fantastic.  I've been using it for years, creating entire years' worth of 
two-page-per-day planner sheets, and printing them double-sided on the 
laser printer at work (flip on short edge).  On the sly, mind you... the 
180+ pages use a lot of toner, which the boss wouldn't like if he found 
out ;)

To supplement the Daytimer and Dayrunner, I also carry what's called a 
Hipster PDA, basically a pile of 3x5 index cards used to write down 
information.  You can download hPDA templates for things like To-Do lists, 
Calendars, contact Lists, etc, which I've found handy, as well as 
resources to create your own templates.

That's it for me for the time being.  It's month end at work, and I 
suppose I should attempt to be productive today...


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