Remember is an Emacs mode for quickly remembering data. It uses whatever back-end is appropriate to record and correlate the data, but its main intention is to allow you to express as little structure as possible up front.

Release info

Tarball

http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-2.0.tar.gz

Zip file

http://download.gna.org/remember-el/remember-2.0.zip

Commit ID

79f69e6188e4e084c9761b24ecb54b5cac9f41e3

Instructions follow for those who track the source code using git. If you wish to track the development of Remember, visit <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/MuseDevelopment> for instructions and substitute "remember" whenever you see "muse" :^) .

This release has the signed git tag "v2.0". The tag points at a commit object with the Commit ID mentioned above. To verify the tag, do:

git fetch origin
git tag -v v2.0

To check out the release, do:

git checkout v2.0

To switch back to the master branch, do:

git checkout master

News Items

Remember is now a part of Emacs 23, and will be included with that release of Emacs when it comes out.

The NEWS items for this release are available here.

My study’s methodology, reviewer one opined,
Was flawed because a crucial part was not made double-blind
And my biased expectations were a problem, I concede
Now I’ll follow where the evidence may lead...

— The Digital Cuttlefish [original quote]

I love that a hymn was written about the scientific method. It is such a deserving topic.

I am taking several steps to try to solve this dilemma. First, when I think of something non-work-related at work, I immediately add a descriptive task for it on my home computer and stop pursuing it at that point. Second, when I start to feel overwhelmed by tasks, I reassign them to future dates so that they do not appear on the plan page for the current day. Third, if any task does not look like it is going to get done in a timely manner, email the parties involved to suggest a workaround (such as encouraging them to try their hand at fixing some bug themselves), and then move the task into a "shelved tasks" page. This ought to result in a fairly apathy-proof workflow.

One of the first things I tried was the White Pizza from the California Pizza Kitchen. I had previously tried that pizza purchased frozen from the store, and didn't care for it. Getting it fresh from the restaurant and having bacon added to it made a critical difference. It consists variety of tasty cheeses, a little olive oil instead of pizza sauce, salty chunks of bacon, and enough spinach to keep you honest. I've found that I like the pizza best when I let it cool to just above room temperature. This makes the spinach less noticeable, and gives the Ricotta cheese clumps just the right texture.

I've also been trying out some items from Pick Up Stix, since they allow me to order items online and pick them up on my way home from work. I didn't care for the Orange Peel Chicken, but the House Special Chicken was delicious. Their Cream Cheese Wantons, which have some green onion mixed with the cream cheese, are quite possibly the best thing I've had out here so far.

I have had good experiences at Tortas Mexico as well. Their specialty is the Torta, which can be ordered with different meats. It consists of lettuce, tomato, beans, mayonnaise, avocado, and jalapeños, contained between a sandwich roll. I never thought it possible to put mayonnaise on a Mexican dish, but the Torta can pull it off seamlessly. The Chicken Sopes (pronounced "So-pays") are also delicious.

I immediately remembered the first few days of OLPC ownership and the fun of playing around with the built-in webcam. I fired up the OLPC, launched the Record application, and sure enough, a bright light with some diffraction effects showed up whenever a button was pressed on the remote. I was also able to point the camera at the adapter and see periodic flashes of light, presumably due to irattach sending a signal every second or so. I didn't see any change in the flashes when pointing the remote at the adapter and clicking, however, which was disappointing.

It turns out that my old TV remote also emits these flashes, so now I am thinking that I might try to use that instead.

Update

Yeah ... the TV remote thing isn't going to fly because the dongle does not provide the right kind of access to the signals. My guess is that Apple did something proprietary with their built-in IR receiver that the dongle has not implemented.