TiddlyWiki and friends

If you're getting started with TiddlyWiki, you'll probably find the following links useful:

• TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us
• TiddlyVault (both via kayshapero)
• TiddlyTools (found by chasing links from TW)

If you're not using TW, and you like the idea of using a web browser to edit a web of little hypertext notes all in one file on your own hard drive, you probably ought to try it. (I just hang out in Emacs, but we already know that I'm weird.)

Retail therapy?

Stopped at Central Computer on the way home and got a new monitor. It's a Samsung 226BW; 22" diagonal, 1680x1050. So it's a little smaller than what I'm using at work (1980x1200) but with bigger pixels; by tweaking the monospaced font down from 18 pixels to 16 I can get two 80x25 terminals across the screen without overlap, the way I can at work. Courier in this size is a little spindly, but I think going to reverse video fixes it.

Central was offering a $40 mail-in rebate; Fry's has the same monitor with a $50 rebate but from a higher base price, so Central came out $5 ahead. And any day I can do better than shopping at Fry's...

It'll probably take a couple of days' worth of tweaking to get it all right. And the browser ends up a little bit too far to the right, considering that the main typing portion of the keyboard is on the left. Well, if that makes me spend more time in the editor, that's OK.

The one real disadvantage compared to a 1980x1200 monitor is the fact that I don't get any more tracks vertically in Audacity. But for nearly a factor of two in price, I think I can live with it for a year or two.

(0911T0658 and here's this morning's Fry's ad with a 20" Samsung, same resolution, about $80 less. I'm OK with that -- I wouldn't be able to drop the font size on that one.)