Oceanside, Nevada

It’s a downright yucky day here in Oceanside, Nevada. Cold, wet, and dark, with occasional hail. It’s one of those days when you don’t want to do anything work-wise. I managed to see a couple of clients but my heart was totally not in it. In fact, I managed to spend half an hour in the parking lot of my second client wasting time on Twitter, Jott and Sandy.

Which brings me back to my iPhone todo rant. I’ve been trying to find a simple solution to Esme’s lack of a todo and/or notes app and I gotta tell you, I’m just not finding it. Don’t get me wrong, there’s a lot of fine apps out there. So far I’ve tried Jott, ReQall, Remember the Milk, TaDa Lists, Stikkit and now Sandy and they’re all interesting and seem to do an adequate job but they’re just one more layer of abstraction.

If all I had was a plain old ordinary cell phone, any of these would work just fine, since I really couldn’t hope for any better, right? But what happens when I’m out of coverage—which happens more than you’d think, even in this day and age—and, call me impatient, but dealing with web apps is just tedious sometimes. Edge is pretty good, and WiFi is awesome, but they’re still not as fast as a native app would be and they add unnecessary complexity.

I’ve said it before but I want tasks with alarms, notes with PDF, rich text and links and an easy way to track my mileage for taxes. That’s all. These three simple things would be way more useful to me than any faux GPS or wiggling icon doohickey. When the SDK ships, I’m obviously going to have to either learn to code or kidnap a programmer and force him to do my bidding:

“Oh god, what do you want?”

“It codes the todo widget! THEN it rubs the lotion on it’s skin!

In other news, I think I’m going to take the plunge and migrate the blog thingy to WordPress. I’ve been pretty happy with BlogHarbor but there is a certain undeniable appeal behind the idea of all those lovely, lovely WordPress plugins. PressHarbor is WordPress hosting from the same folks who do BlogHarbor, so I figure to expect a pretty quality set up with minimal geekiness required from yours truly. I don’t really know what to expect, though I imagine plenty of stuff will break. Just be warned.

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