Great, just what we need, another reason for confused users to spend more time in Word. It’s not that I’m against rich clients, but a lot of people make the mistake of loading up an entire office suite when all they need to do is jot down a little note.

Public Notice:
A word processor is a program that formats text and does layout. It is not the best way to create and edit plain text. Now granted, blogs may justify a bit more variety than plain text can offer, but running your entries through a text filter like Textile is a much more natural way to create rich text than moving your hands off the keyboard every few seconds to make formatting changes.

Plus, wordsucks. (I had to put that in to live up to certain explanations people have of me. Hardcore hackers use Emacs, because life is better when an integrated LISP interpreter is never more than two keystrokes away.)

Recently I’ve been working with calendars and realizing that using a personal calendar is the next inevitable step to getting my life more organized. My life is not going to get more organized until I start using a calendar.

Unfortunately, calendaring software is playing catch-up to other well-worn areas of software. If I wanted a calendar to use at one single computer I wouldn’t have a problem; great ones already exist for that. Unfortunately, most organizational software problems get more complicated when you realize everything needs to be accessible across the four computers you regularly use.

But lo!—a light exists on the horizon. Hula is totally going to rock. I just have to be patient while it is finished. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get to drool over the sweet stuff they’re doing. Thanks, Novell! Ya rock.