I'm revisiting the eternal question of what-goes-where. I've made some recent changes, and I want to get them documented, to remind me of my textual data management plan.

• Tasks (to-do, Next Actions, etc.) go in my Outlook "Tasks" folder.
• GTD Projects go in Outlook in a folder (of content-type Task) named "Projects".
• The body of the project task-item contains actions that are not GTD Next Actions.
  

I was running into a problem where Microsoft Office programs, such as Excel, Word, and PowerPoint were taking "too long" to start and show an empty document. 

After I determined that there was plenty of memory and CPU available, and defragmented my drive, they were still slow to start.

• Painful learning 6,251 -- When you make a change to your database schema, and it doesn't show up in your testing with cucumber after you run "rake db:migrate", you should first run "rake features" and then "rake db:migrate" and then run "rake features" again.
  
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There is a Windows utility, QT Tabbar, that gives Windows Explorer a tabbed interface.

It mostly works, but I was seeing more Explorer flakiness than usual when I was using QT Tabbar, so I decided to remove it. 

"Remove it."  Such a simple concept.  So easy in theory (run the uninstaller); so hard in practice (no uninstaller).

I had to resort to searching for files in C:\Windows (and below) containing "QT Tabbar" and searching the registry for "QT Tabbar" to remove it.

Outlook 2003 Tasks Versus Evernote 3 (Windows Desktop edition)

Advantage Outlook:

I ran across an odd behavior in RocketDock recently.  When minimize-to-dock was enabled, and I minimized an application, nothing happened for 10 seconds, and then the window minimized.  Not "about 10 seconds."  "Exactly 10 seconds, every time."

At first I thought that my graphics card was too slow, but then I tried a fresh install, and minimize-to-dock was very fast.

You can use a pseudo-SQL called "DASL" to search Outlook items in VBA (vbscript/Visual Basic for Applications).  I never can quite remember the syntax.  To interactively discover the syntax:

Google Desktop was *sometimes* locking up on find-as-you-type, taking the CPU to 99%, and requiring me to kill and restart GoogleDesktop.exe to fix things.

I ran TCPView, both with WinInet proxy on and off, and found that GoogleDesktop was connecting to my proxy or to gx-in-f101.google.co, when it starts find-as-you-type.  For whatever reason (perhaps the  firewall is blocking gx-in-f101.google.com), connections don't succeed, and GoogleDesktop apparently spins in a tight loop, waiting for the connection.

Here's how to set up password-free ssh.  Work out any problems with passworded ssh before proceeding.

1. On the client machine, run "ssh-keygen -t rsa" (Note: Only do this if you don't have ssh without password connecting from this client to ANYWHERE.)
2. Copy your id_rsa.pub (or your identity.pub, or whatever you've named your public key) to the server as ~/.ssh/authorized_keys.  If you already have an authorized_keys, append your id_rsa.pub to that file.
3. On the server:
   1. chmod 600 .ssh