It's been an interesting bank holiday weekend. MS announced that they are cutting WinFS out of Longhorn which means I need to stop using my PDC Longhorn copy to add metainfo to my photos : what's the point if I can't use it for another four years? And now Apple has announced the G5 iMac. Mark three looks remarkably like the monitor I use at work. It's pretty incredible they've managed to fit all the hardware into a 2 inch thick TFT monitor but I hope the screen doesn't wobble as much as my monitor does. One nudge of the table...
I think I'm going to knock book writing on the head for a bit save for a few book reviews now and again. It doesn't pay enough to reserve the large chunk of time it takes to create a book when I could be doing other things currently closer to my heart for the same reward. So then, the next few months will see me working on
Four short films with Dreamfinder for Screen West Midlands
A longer (maybe feature length) costume drama
A couple of proposals for a...
I like OneNote. It has allowed me to more or less centralise the random and not so random thoughts I have daily into one place as opposed to across many text files, outlook tasks, emails and bits of paper. It proves to be a great app for congregating thoughts for blog entries. However, as the number of popular random thought applications, such as OneNote, Sharepoint & RSS Aggregators increases, and new links between the two emerge, might it not become too easy to use all your time generating and organising these thoughts rather than building on top of them?