Observations...
May. 6th, 2005 10:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe weather went back to being lousy today, with thunderstorms wandering about the landscape, grumbling as they left a trail of wet behind them. Instead of walking, I got my exercise going through boxes of stuff looking for a package of closing papers. What's crazy is that I think I'm going to find the thing any second.
I was fascinated by the eating habits of a blue jay as he visited our feeder this morning. He apparently favors only a certain kind of seed, which is the only way I can explain him using his beak to "rake" the contents of the feeder out of the feeding platform, causing the seed mix in the feeder to come out that much faster and fill the void.
If I weren't going down to Albuquerque on Tuesday, I'd have a lot of work on hand. I lucked out in terms of the order in which offers came in: one of my better clients offered me 7500 source words about an hour before a similar volume was offered at a lower rate, which I had to turn down (how I dislike doing that!). So my "plate" currently comprises 10,500 source words, which must be delivered by departure on Tuesday, in addition to everything else that has been piling up.
A long time ago, I used to use a program called InfoSelect to organize my stuff. Among the things I used it for was to track outgoing and incoming calls, to-dos, and terminology. A major use was to correlate numbered file folders with their contents, removing the need to constantly keep things alphabetized in the filing cabinet (searching on "alloy" reveals two hits; the one I want is the handbook, which is in folder 27). When I reinstalled an old directory recently, I was surprised to see how much detail had been preserved with relatively little effort.
The program is currently in version 8, but I deliberately went back and am using version 1.0 that, in my considered opinion, represents the pinnacle of the product's development. The application lets you create free-form units of information, represented as windows within the parent window, and among other features has a blazingly fast search algorithm that lets you find what you need without delay.
Perhaps, if later versions of the program, which introduced a lot of features I had no use for, would have supported Cyrillic, I'd be a contented user and repeat upgrader. As it turns out, as long as I use a non-Unicode Cyrillic font, I can type in the program in Russian, but at this point - having discovered EverNote - the ability to use Cyrillic in InfoSelect is moot. What is particularly cool about InfoSelect 1.0 is that it is small enough (and old enough) not to require an install that copies necessary DLLs to the Windows system directories or modifies the Windows Registry, which makes it ideal to run from a thumb drive, which is where it is installed right now.
Time to wind down. Tomorrow is going to be a fairly hectic day.
Cheers...
I was fascinated by the eating habits of a blue jay as he visited our feeder this morning. He apparently favors only a certain kind of seed, which is the only way I can explain him using his beak to "rake" the contents of the feeder out of the feeding platform, causing the seed mix in the feeder to come out that much faster and fill the void.
If I weren't going down to Albuquerque on Tuesday, I'd have a lot of work on hand. I lucked out in terms of the order in which offers came in: one of my better clients offered me 7500 source words about an hour before a similar volume was offered at a lower rate, which I had to turn down (how I dislike doing that!). So my "plate" currently comprises 10,500 source words, which must be delivered by departure on Tuesday, in addition to everything else that has been piling up.
A long time ago, I used to use a program called InfoSelect to organize my stuff. Among the things I used it for was to track outgoing and incoming calls, to-dos, and terminology. A major use was to correlate numbered file folders with their contents, removing the need to constantly keep things alphabetized in the filing cabinet (searching on "alloy" reveals two hits; the one I want is the handbook, which is in folder 27). When I reinstalled an old directory recently, I was surprised to see how much detail had been preserved with relatively little effort.
The program is currently in version 8, but I deliberately went back and am using version 1.0 that, in my considered opinion, represents the pinnacle of the product's development. The application lets you create free-form units of information, represented as windows within the parent window, and among other features has a blazingly fast search algorithm that lets you find what you need without delay.
Perhaps, if later versions of the program, which introduced a lot of features I had no use for, would have supported Cyrillic, I'd be a contented user and repeat upgrader. As it turns out, as long as I use a non-Unicode Cyrillic font, I can type in the program in Russian, but at this point - having discovered EverNote - the ability to use Cyrillic in InfoSelect is moot. What is particularly cool about InfoSelect 1.0 is that it is small enough (and old enough) not to require an install that copies necessary DLLs to the Windows system directories or modifies the Windows Registry, which makes it ideal to run from a thumb drive, which is where it is installed right now.
Time to wind down. Tomorrow is going to be a fairly hectic day.
Cheers...
