Torben

I have had the tape deck connected to my Prioritisation Committee for two years but I am not having time to sit and rip the tapes.

The other day I made a test run with a few tapes. Ripping to WAN and then transforming to MP3 werks well and is easy, but it needs some work with splitting the WAN into tracks or at least some sort of chapters, and then tagging the stuff properly…

I used to spend an hour a day catching up on websites. That was procrastination and then some! When Google launched their “improved” Reader (beginning of 2007 or so?) I started using it.

I found RSS is not at all strange, it’s just different from visiting websites. Practically every “essential” website offers RSS these days, so all that I want to “catch up” on is available as RSS feed. That saves time, and I feel that I can just pick out a few interesting headlines and skip the rest, or save them for later reading.

RSS means that I am not missing any headline I care about, it just piles up like yesterdays newspapers and I can choose how to handle that in my own tempo. That’s worth a lot.

I finally managed to learn Dvorak after all. It feels nice (easy on the fingers) but I’m still not altogether convinced that it was such a brilliant idea: I took the leap while I was between jobs and trained a lot with the “Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor” – that was essential! But it’s a nuisance to use other (normal) keyboards – and I especially notice that when using my (qwerty) PDA. And I also notice that there’s only one way to really learn it: type A LOT!! At work, I’m still rather slow. What’s worse, it seems to me that I need to learn Dvorak three times because I write in three languages… can that really be? Perhaps it really can. German in particular is harder than English and Danish on Dvorak, but then it may also generally be trickier on Qwerty, what with all those “z”’s and umlauts. There’s a reason why the Germans use Qwertz instead.