Remember The Milk

I was a dedicated omnifocus user, but I just switched to Remember The Milk. If it was just my notebook or a desktop, omnifocus is the top GTD app hands down. However the omnifocus iPhone app is just tooo..... clunky. I have all the usual complaints about it, it loads slow, too much navigation to do simple things, so on and so forth. To me it seems like their developers are too used to the high horsepower of modern macs, and are having a hard time writing an app for a processor/ram/hd constrained product like the iPhone.

Remember The Milk on the other hand, is a pure webapp for macs, with a syncable iPhone app. The webapp is slightly slower than omnifocus for mac, which is understandable. However, their webapp has gmail like keyboard shortcuts, which is nice. I do miss omnifocus's ability to add a new task from anywhere. Remember The Milk also integrates well with gmail, I subscribed to my task list as a calendar in iCal, and has nifty settings like "postpone", and understands natural language as you input data. Unfortunately for omnifocus, the faster Remember The Milk iPhone app made me a switcher. 

Stanza for the iPhone

I recently downloaded both the OSX and iPhone version of Stanza, with the intention of turning my iPhone into a good pdf reader. The verdict? Stanza on the iPhone is awesome for reading newspapers, books and magazines. Stanza is bad for reading tech documentation, especially those with diagrams and pics. I had hoped that Stanza might be good for tech docs, but alas my hopes were dashed. I still use it on an almost daily basis though, since there's a lot of classic books that are now in the public domain.

I have iPhone thumb

I have iPhone thumb, which is alternately known as blackberry thumb or nintendonitis. Trying to switch to my other fingers to give my thumbs some rest. Owie.

Omnifocus for the iPhone

So I bought an iPhone 3G. I figured iPhones are no longer trendy since everyone and their mother has one, and Apple probably has most of the bugs worked out, so I might as well get one. So far I have been impressed. I ended up purchasing Omnifocus for the iPhone, as I really liked Omnifocus for the desktop. However, the Omni Group decided that there would be no recurring tasks on the iPhone version of Omnifocus. What the bloody hell. That's the dumbest thing I've seen this week, and it cost me $20 from the app store.

Rad Studio crashing again!

It's damn frustrating, this is twice in the last 2 hours. I'm not even doing anything weird, just editing a source file. I checked the ram usage of my workstation, it's at 600mb out of 4gb total. Rad Studio crashes more than any IDE I have ever used in my entire life. 

A new age of military healthcare?

So to take a break from all my Delphi stuff, I figure I'll post about where I've spent most of my career, which is in healthcare. The majority of my experience comes in working with the VA's EHR, named VistA. VistA by the way, was created at least a decade before Microsoft Vista. Recently, I've become more interested in CHCS and AHTLA, which is part of the DoD EHR system. Interestingly, it seems that MHS (Military Health Systems) is turning to new web based technologies to gather feedback from their users. I'm glad to see some of the MHS leaders taking advantage of social technologies.

Darwin Race of Langauges is Over!

Congratulations to all who finished! My downfall was I bit off more than I could chew by using a semi-familiar IDE and language, while attempting to learn COM and WMI. No excuses though! Even though I couldn't finish the race, I had fun and I learned more about RAD Studio in the process.

My one regret is that due to all the problems to solve being GUI based, I couldn't enter using my best language, GT.M. I bet that would be something no one else has seen =P.

In any case, that's just me rambling on (and trying to find some way to work GT.M into my post). Too bad none of the people who finished the competition entered anything for OSX.