Entries in Life

Since I'm using monologue to publish ClarkAlumni, I'm learning a little about C# and Mono.

For instance, I learned pretty quickly that Mono's support for timezones in its date-parsing code is pretty much non-existant and this messes up RSS.NET since it'll "disappear" any entries for which it can't grok the date. Kluged my way around that by hacking off the timezone completely.

Then there were some fun crashes when it didn't understand (among other things) that Leonard was using <guid>'s instead of <link>'s.

Did I ever tell you that Emacs is where I live? planner.el and emacs-wiki.el make life here even more pleasant.

As an example, I used to mark emails as important if I wanted to remember what was in them or respond to them. No more. Now I just create a small Wiki page and put a note in my Planner. No more month's old messages sitting there.

Of course, marking the email was probably the wrong way to do it in the first place, but, like Kai Grossjohann, I was using my INBOX as my TODO list. Using an emacs-based Wiki, I actually have a somewhat disorganised place to put things.