Week of 2006-08-12 17:00 to 2006-08-19 16:59

As bookmarked here a couple of months ago, Beatnik Software has a note-taking app with wiki-alike features called Tomboy. Linux.com published a review today, “Take notes with Tomboy”

A few weeks ago, I started looking around for an application that makes it easy to take notes. I do all my writing in Vim, but I wanted something that was good for quick and dirty notetaking and for organizing information without maintaining a collection of text files. After some research, I settled on Tomboy.

Tomboy is a simple desktop note-taking application for Linux and other *nix operating systems. It’s written in C# and runs on Mono. It has also just been accepted into GNOME 2.16, so Tomboy will be appearing on a lot of Linux users’ desktops soon, if it’s not there already.

via LWN

Early in 2005, Kiril Kundurazieff (AKA the ever-informative Cycling Dude) procured a bunch of maps at the LA Times Travel Show. He had intended on reporting their usefulness for cyclists and info on how to get them:

While some of the maps were specially made Bike route, and trail, maps, most were standard issue city, and state, and even country maps.

Some of those do have route details for cycling, but it is important to understand that they are useful regardless.

He’s been able to set aside time to begin a new series where he’ll…

…make my way through my stash of stuff, and any new stuff I might receive, or get my hands on in the future.

I want to write about not just the maps, but any other useful cycling info I may discover in the material.

I also plan to request maps by mail from various resources, and write about them, and to check out various websites that sell, or post, maps, and/or route descriptions, that I have in my sidebar.

So a big thank you to Kiril. Should be very cool to check out.

Myself, I’ve taken to using Google Earth to plot out my various routes, which has the added benefit of displaying things in 3D — very handy for determining which hills to avoid like the plague take gingerly.