Archive for December, 2005

Too Many Windows

21 Dec, 2005  No Comment

If you’ve seen the Expose feature in OSX, you’ve probably been wowed. Well there are several workalike utilities for Windows…

  • Entbloess 2 : Has the most features but seemed kinda slow.
  • Exposer : For me it hosed up Konfabulator, but YMMV.
  • TopDesk : This was another solid contender.
  • WinPLOSION : Worked the smoothest for me.  I thought I was going to keep it but I was just too used to Alt-Tabing between windows.

In the end I went with TaskSwitchXP. It’s not really the same thing as the others, but it works for me.

As a side note, I’m going to give the two monitor thing a try again so I can keep MyLifeOrganized , and a few other things visable at all times. I’m working off a laptop with a 17″ widescreen and for a second monitor I have a 19″ LCD (and a 21″ CRT at home). After some messing around, my resolutions are 1440×900 and 1600×1200.

Polyphasic Sleep

19 Dec, 2005  No Comment

I’ve read several people’s experiences with it and it seems like it might be a “gotta try it” thing as everyone is different.

My current sleep patterns are all over the place.  I get between 2 and 9 hours of sleep.  On the weekend, my wife and I often take a ~2 hour nap on one day in afternoon when our daughter takes hers.  I have the occasional marathon at work where I put in a 16+ hour day and I usually use lots of caffene and sugar to stay awake. Read the rest of this entry »