To be honest, I’ve never written out to-do lists until the beginning of this semester. I’m pretty sure I didn’t because I felt my memory was good enough to remember what I needed to get done on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. Last semester’s results seem to have proven otherwise.
I am aware that Mac OS X comes pre-equipped with some to-do list capable software, namely, iCal, Stickies and Dashboard Stickies; but when it came to the point at the beginning of this semester when I actually decided to write to-do lists, none of these cut it for me.
And so I began perusing the net for an alternative. I wanted something super simple, without a bunch of features I had no use for. It didn’t take long for me to find TaskPaper by Hog Bay Software.
With TaskPaper, I simply use the Project button to label my different classes, the Task button to create, well, tasks for each class, and the Note button to include more detailed information about individual tasks. As I complete tasks, I simply click next to them and they’re crossed out and tagged as done. Ah, the great feeling of accomplishment.
Time to go back to checking off more tasks.
My new project is making a totally new website for NAUTY, a student-run organization at my university that organizes events promoting “greater cultural understanding and integration.”
Basically, they make the best on-campus parties.
The website has been pretty much inactive since 2006/2007 and my job is to bring it back to life. Hence, I’ve decided to move away from the static HTML pages that the website has been using and instead set up a blog that is both easier for administrators to manage but can also provide visitors with more up-to-date content with event announcements, photos, and more interactivity.
Not surprisingly, I will be using WordPress to power the website simply because I believe it is the best small-scale content management system out there. I will probably be designing an all new theme from Paul Stamatiou’s 281 WordPress template.
You can expect the website to be live sometime in mid to late April as I am currently having midterms and have no time to work for hours on designing. But once spring break rolls around, I’ll dive right in.
I welcome your views on what you would like to see on the new NAUTY website.
Back in September of 2005, I wrote a short little entry about the websites I visit on a daily basis. I guess it’s not too surprising that with time, the websites I most commonly visit have changed, somewhat anyway. And because yours truly wants to keep this blog alive by updating it with content – regardless of how feeble my attempts may be and how unexciting this content usually is – I present to you my list of websites I visit most often.
1. ilapko.com – that’s right
2. Gmail
3. Facebook
4. HKUST Intranet + other intra-university pages – you don’t really need links for these
5. Flickr
6. Google Analytics – to dispirit myself about how few visitors come to my website
7. YouTube
8. Economist – for world/economic news
9. New York Times – for more US-centric news
This list is in no way exhaustive and obviously some days I may access other websites more often than others. As I’ve written in a previous article, I’m frequenting Digg less and less because it is a great tool for wasting time – the last thing I should be doing at this point in my life.
