I’ve been thinking a lot about how to optimize the Windows Mobile user interface. Palm OS and the iPhone/iPod variant of OS X get a lot of props for being so simple and easy to use, and Windows Mobile always seems to lag behind. A while back I was reading an article on WMexperts.com about [...]
I’ve been a fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done time management methodology for years. And while I had it down to a science on my various Palms and Treos, a really good GTD implementation has eluded me on Windows Mobile until just recently. There are lots of different ways to do it, of course, [...]
This is going to be a new running feature at JeffKirvin.net, where I kick around ideas about mobile user interfaces. I’ve always been fascinated by UI. I guess a big chunk of it is my own tendency to tinker with things in a continual and ultimately futile attempt to make them the perfect synthesis of [...]
A while back I wrote about different ways of capturing my thoughts in the moment to process later, GTD-style. As I mentioned then, this was dead simple in Palm OS because of an application called Slap, which provided a basic notepad and the ability to arbitrarily convert lines of text to appointments, contacts, tasks, etc. [...]
So I’m less than a page into Ghost Ronin and I’m getting all sorts of ideas. Good ideas, mostly, stuff I definitely want to do. Most of these ideas are about how I can shore up the gaps in my own knowledge and experience to make this story rock.
That’s one of my favorite things about [...]
Okay, the ball is rolling. I’ve started writing a novel, Ghost Ronin. Longtime readers have seen other iterations of this story as In Shining Armor.
Why am I revisiting this? Several reasons, really.
The first is comfort level. I’ve been picking at this story for 20 years. I still feel a strong connection to the story and [...]
I spent all of last weekend cleaning. And when I say cleaning, I mean I removed 25 13-gallon white kitchen garbage bags from my one-bedroom apartment, and that doesn’t even count the actual bedroom, which I use for storage. My apartment went from looking like ground zero of a tornado to a clean, austere living [...]