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14 June 2007 - Bible In A Year

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:23:54 GMT

For the first time in my life, I can say that I've read the entire Bible. For the past year, I've been receiving a few chapters each day via email from BibleInAYear.org. I've also been using the freeware tool dictator to streamline the reading of the text, so it only took a few minutes each day.

I still wouldn't claim to be an expert, but it has certainly been interesting to walk through the entire book in a systematic way. The discipline of doing the reading first thing each morning has also been positive, as it sets the tone for the whole day.

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14 June 2007 - Bible In A Year
13 June 2007 - Dry Ice
11 June 2007 - Tudumo

13 June 2007 - Dry Ice

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:51:00 GMT

My kids and I got to play with some dry ice yesterday — I had almost forgotten how much fun that stuff is! The kids were fascinated with the home-made fog. Check out the Saturday Scientists for some "cool" (-109.3^oF!) things you can do with dry ice.

11 June 2007 - Tudumo

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 13:43:00 GMT

I've been playing some with Tudumo recently, and I think it's got great potential as a to-do list manager. Very simple, elegant and intuitive to use. Well suited to GTD.

To get a jump-start on populating some Action Items into Tudumo, I wrote a quick-n-dirty script using AutoIt that takes a text file containing one-line task descriptions and pastes each line into a new Action item inside Tudumo. The result is a "poor-man's import" function that allows me to take lists from other software and transfer at least the basic info into Tudumo. Grab the script source code if you want, of if you don't use AutoIt you can just run the compiled version of the script.

6/12 update: Richard (the author) responded:

You should be able to either:
1) Drag and drop text into Tudumo
(I think dropping on any item will do it), or
2) Move up/down to a position and 
"paste" copied text.

Both should create a bunch of actions, one action per line.

Thanks Richard, that does work. I'll still hang onto this script because I may extend it later to include processing for additional item attributes like date, tags, and notes.

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