This post from Kiko guy Richard White is a healthy read. In it he dispels the idea that once Google (Calendar) got into their game, folding was the only option. Turns out there are a lot of non-Google reasons for Kiko’s demise. As usual, I found a quote which relates to the less-is-more attitude I’m so fond of… Too many features killed the cat. It didn’t look it at first, but if you played around with Kiko 1.

Theres a rather interesting thread going on now over at the 37Signals blog, all started with Jason Fried quoting Fred Brooks… How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. If you wade through the comments on the post, youll find some interesting things. Here are my favorites… Fixed prices are broken promises And… Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.

Seth Godin points out a few all-too-often hidden benefits of having a boss.

Two questions. How many digital photos do you have stored on your computer? When was the last time you backed them up? Were going to lose a lot of history to drive failures.

tattoo_3.jpg Originally uploaded by JackBaty. Yes, she talked me into letting her get another tattoo. It says "Daddy", how could I resist?

After much hand-wringing and the selling of my 20D, Ive finally bought myself a Ricoh GR Digital This unique compact camera has gotten very mixed reviews. The fly in the ointment has generally been comprised of 2 things: noise at high ISO and very slow RAW write speeds. Both of these complaints are completely valid but they dont tell the whole story. What most reviewers tend to focus on are 100% crops of photos taken at all ISOs of things like cereal box labels, watch faces and other things none of us really want to photograph.

I’ve fallen a bit off the GTD wagon of late. How do I know? First, I missed 2 things I should’ve easily gotten done recently. Another clue is that I feel like I have too many things to think about and I just *know* I’m forgetting something. And I’ve not done a thorough weekly review in 3 weeks. This is bad. Merlin Mann talks a bit about getting back on the GTD wagon by doing a Mind Sweep.

One of the few things I find frustrating about the keyboard on my MacBook Pro is the location of the Control key. I *really* want to swap the Control and Function keys, but can’t find a way to do it. I did find that I can reassign all of the modifier keys using System Preferences->Keyboard and Mouse->Modifier Keys. This isn’t too bad, since changing the Caps Lock key to Control works almost as well.

Using Terminal in OS X is pretty nice overall. One thing that can be annoying is that when viewing directory listings, directories are rendered in blue, which is difficult to see if you’re like me and use a dark background color. I found the following somewhere and it makes things a bit better by changing directories to cyan. Just add this to your ~/.profile … export LSCOLORS=gxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad # cyan directories

I’ve got an idea. Let’s get a bunch of 2-year olds, make them cry, and take a picture of them. Then we’ll caption the photos with some political hooha and call it art. Anything for a buck right? And it’s art, so that makes it all okay. Oh damn, seems that Jill Greenberg has beaten us to it… The photos are over-processed crap. This sort of thing probably shouldn’t be illegal, but it’s sure as hell unnecessary.

Samsung’s new compact digital cameras sure are interesting. If the zoom started at 28mm instead of 38mm it would be pretty tempting. At least it doesn’t look like a silver Altoids tin.

Sweet. Dr. Katz, the funniest show of the 90s, is out on DVD. Slate has a pretty good article about it.