I re-wrote Rebecca Black’s song “Friday” as Good “Friday” for Holy Week. I’m not kidding.
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On Real Work and OmniFocus
Be sure to check out this screen shot John Rust posted of how he uses the GTD application.
On Samsung and Apple
Nilay Patel, on Apple’s case against Samsung:
Taken as a group, it feels like a remarkably solid case — Samsung can’t just up and countersue Apple with its own patents and hope to walk away with a handshake and a cross-license because of the various trademark, trade dress, and design patent claims. How the company decides to deal with those issues remains to be seen; there’s no question in my mind that Samsung designed TouchWiz to look and feel as much like iOS as possible, and then marketed it as such.
‘Why Does Apple Hate…’
This is a hilarious list, via Neven Mrgan.
One Additional Thought on OmniFocus
Living with OmniFocus is like having a garden. If you don’t take care of it, weeds take over and ruin it, choking out anything healthy. But if you tend it carefully, it will provide you with beautiful, bountiful results that are delightful.
OmniFocus: My Life Management Software
Background
I wrote this back in September:
At the end of the day, I don’t give a crap about categorizing tasks due to location, topic, tags or what color shirt I’m wearing. All I need is a convenient way to list tasks and their deadlines. Nothing more; nothing less.
Shockingly simple, I know.
For me and my simple needs, Things and OmniFocus are overkill. With systems like this, I spend more time entering tasks than doing them. When I was using Things, by the time I was done going over the day’s to-do list, it was time for lunch. OmniFocus just gives me seizures.
‘Always Dangerous’
Harry McCracken, after listing several articles about Apple not ever entering the phone market, etc.:
It’s worth noting that while all of these stories turned out to be wrong, that doesn’t mean that the folks who wrote them were clueless. Some of their rationales, in fact, were darn logical–they just happened to be erroneous. Very few people outside of Apple have a knack for channeling Steve Jobs’ thought process. And even if you understand Apple better than most people, it will surprise you at least some of the time. Declaring that it will never do something is always dangerous.
Sophomore
I was fortunate. I found many of my passions — the Mac, journalism, design and photography — all at once.
My high school had an excellent newspaper program. The paper — named The Panther’s Prey — has won countless awards over the years. My freshman year, I applied to work on the staff. While I enjoyed writing, and had dabbled in computer graphics, I was by no means an expert in anything.
Torando Footage from Jackson, MS
A tornado ripped through Jackson, MS, south of Memphis earlier today. Here’s some incredible footage of the storm:
We are all so small.
‘Don’t Mimic Real-World Interfaces’
RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis Needs a Cookie
RIM’s leadership has gone from comical to just plain sad.
The Macgasm Podcast: App Stores, Subscription Models and Paywalls
Be sure to listen all the way to the end, and you’ll get to experience my Extended II as I hammer away on it.