Author: fioritto

New emacs obsession – org.el

I have been using org.el the last few days and I am incredibly impressed. It contains some great features for taking notes, capturing TODO items and I think with a bit of work with tags, it would support David Allen’s GTD. I’ll write up a more detailed report later.

A Parent’s Nightmare

Since moving back to the midwest, we head out from Indiana each Christmas day and make the trek up I-94 to Detroit to spend time with my wife’s family. This year was no exception. We spent the day eating dinner and visiting and the next day we went to see The Chronicles of Narnia at the local theater. We hit…

Zora Neale Hurston on Research

I love this quote on research by Zora Neale Hurston. I ran across it in a school library over the weekend while I was judging my son’s speech tournament. “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell…