Spreedly seems like a potential option as well.

That would be awesome. If only those with the dough felt the same way...

Granted, there are hurdles -- concern for theft, infrastructure for loss/repair/upgrades, etc. But it would be incredibly exciting nonetheless.

Well, I think if we can keep "bad" people inside prisons, then surely we can keep "bad" people outside a solid concrete block with no windows and nothing inside that is really useful outside.

We don't worry about people stealing a chunk of sidewalk for example. They do steal signs and road equipment and reprogram emergency signs, etc.

But if we look around the world, the benevolence that arises from innovative products is almost always greater than the destruction it causes. Nuclear War vs. Nuclear Energy for example.

This would be a project as owned and loved by the people as Hoover Dam or the Interstate System or Golden Gate Bridge. A wireless cloud built by the people, for the people, has the potential to make our lives better, collectively, than any of those indivdual projects. In comparison, those projects benefitted relatively few in the big scheme of things, but a public cloud would benefit all and we would make sure it would by providing access for all.

I think at this point, our ability to provide the technology services is increasing faster than producers' ability to fill it up. There is enough content already to entertain most of us for many, many lifetimes. We could record every second of our life on two video cameras every second we are alive and still have plenty of space left over...

Yes, more comment influence would be more useful than the orange.

Awful lot of markup for something that could arguably be better-accomplished with standard techniques (a tiny image and/or javascript progressive enhancement).

With DoubleCommand, you can bind the right "Enter" key to be Control. (On my MBP at least... I assume macbooks are the same)

No, you can win e-mail tetris without cheating.

You must decide for yourself which action your e-mails require: Trash, Defer, or Action. GTD gets this right.

If you don't make those decisions as e-mail enters your box, you're effectively saying (while playing tetris) "I'm going to ignore all of the L-shaped blocks and deal with the wreckage they leave behind later." Yeah, you'll lose. You have to make a decision on _every_ piece that drops into your inbox.

Filters can do wonders, if you really do have a huge influx of mail. You don't have to read and respond to every message unless you really want to.

That's true; Ruby and Python would both be worth learning. I'd push you toward Python, though, mainly because it has more traction outside of web development too (e.g. system administration, etc).

Posts are ordered by a function of both time and points, so they won't always be in point-based order.

Yea, that's how it is. But is that how it should be?

It seems plausible to me for net positive comments to be ranked vs each other in that manner and net negative comments be ranked separately, such that positive is always shown higher than negative.

What would you like to see in that quantum leap?

IMHO something like Chandler Project. PIM+PKM+GTD+Workflow

I was actually trying out Chandler earlier this week and I found it disappointingly hard to configure, and I'm not normally one to have that be the show stopper (cf occasionally spending 10 hrs figuring out how to build some unixy software and have it interact nicely with some sort of emacs package)

Mutt a la web 2.0 :)

I chuckled at that, but it's true!

I just end up using Mutt as my MUA and Gmail as my really fancy sorta-half-MDA. To finish it out I have to use something like fetchmail (which is okay), I usually end up using Mutt's built-in imap feature.

I enjoy ragging on Windows as much as the next guy, but this post reminded me how much of an accomplishment Windows really is. Few software projects need to deal with such a huge range of compatibility issues between hardware and software dating back nearly twenty years. Certainly no easy task.