Note to my female readers: Sorry, I’m addicted to programming

Because of my UNIX backgrounds I feel most comfortable working in the black (My girlfriends’ terminology of ‘a terminal’). Also, I’m a frequent IRC chat user. Actually, after booting up my computer, the first thing I do is re-attach my IRC session. Therefore I think it’s only adequate for me to make my personal manager available ‘in the black’.

This weekend I couldn’t resist taking a few hours to quick-and-dirty mashup these:

  • Backpack IRC interface (bot)
  • Backpack Command Line Interface (cli)

code: backpack_tt-290107.tar.gz (written in Ruby of course)

Highly Effective People 2.0

on January 28, 2007

Since my last school days are numbered – last week I had a 9 out of 10 for my final thesis – I’m preparing to get more organized. Even though this week is about celebration and slacking off, I will have to prepare for a busy and volatile life.

Backpack: Get Organized and Collaborate

That’s where Backpackit comes in! This online tool let’s you organize loosely and integrate it with email/sms/calendar. So far it works pretty neat for my situation. Loose and principle based which backs the philosophies of The Seven Habits of highly Effective People

This Friday I will move to Tokyo for two months where I will do: projects, job hunting and learn Japanese.