I just read a few interesting posts by Tim Bray and Alex Payne about what to read and how to stay up to date (see below).  Much of what they say I agree with.  The simple problem is that there is just too much stuff out there that is interesting or important on some level.  Combine that with an ever expanding workload, a short attention span, and a fading memory and you have a combination that just can’t work long term.  What’s interesting is that I’ve asked several knowledge workers of one sort or another what their biggest problems are and most respond with something like …

• “too many interruptions”
• “wasting time on nonproductive tasks like email”
• “no ability to focus on key tasks”
• “excessive multitasking”

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Anyone else want to run TweetDeck on openSUSE (or any Linux for that matter) but can’t because they don’t use GNOME or KDE?  When I first tried TweetDeck using XFCE everything looked okay but the interface would not respond to any button clicks.  After a quick trip to Google it appears that TweetDeck wants someplace to store your username/password information and it only knows how to use Gnome or KDEs keyring.  I got around this by launching Gnome services on startup.  This can be done by opening the menu Settings -> Sessions and Startup and choosing the Advanced Tab.  Under this tab I selected ‘Launch Gnome services on startup’.

I then wrote the little script below to extract the gnome-keyring process id and pass it to TweetDeck on startup using the (more…)

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