Quick update on Bess, she has now entered the stage of life of motherhood. The pups are fine and healthy, 4 boys. There’s something really cute about being followed by the pitter patter of 16 little paws when you go out the door.

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Picked up a 07 Honda Hornet 600F a week ago. Seem to be a really nice bike to ride with puck of power in just about any gear.

A few years ago I was in my Boss’ office in Interactve Services. He was showing me something on his computer, and I saw that his filing system was a system of folders named according to the date. So he never had a build up of files in one particular place.

I took this system on-board and modified it to my needs, and just thought I’d share it here. I have a folder on the desktop called “_today”. Into this I put every file I create/view/save on a particular day. Then I have a little program I wrote in C# which runs at startup. This runs every time I login and takes the contents of the _today folder and moves them into a backup folder in My Documents named after the date.

Here’s the source for the app. You can have it run on startup by dragging a shortcut to the application into Start » Programs » Startup.

Dowload (zip)

Site implementation

I recently got set up on Twitter. I’ve been hearing about it and scuttling around it for a while now. I’ll preface this by saying that I’ve only been using this for a short while, so I may just not have found some stuff out. So far I’m digging it. The concept is very simple, sms for web. That’s it. Create a user and post a message in 140 characters. Everything about the service (API’s, indexing, twibes etc) is built around this. The website layout is simple and clear, the creators are obviously exponents of the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) philosophy. There is the ability to customise the look of your homepage, follow people, find friends, edit your profile and search your tweets (the name given to your messages). This is one of the sites that is held up as a standard bearer for the Ruby on Rails people (alongside basecamp). Site uptime and capacity has been called into question. I’ve seen the “too many tweets” page now once to often in the two or three weeks I’ve been using it. (more…)

If you’re looking for a bit more information than Task Manger manager provides, Process Explorer, also from Microsoft may be the answer. With it you can view your processess in a hierarchical tree, find out what processess are safe and find out which process is running a particular window.

These are just a few of the capabilities, and you can configure it to run instead of Task Manager at the click of a button. Click here to find out more.

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