I’ve got a bunch of documents that I want to organize, and I didn’t want to use some database system, or rely on Spotlight (which I loathe) or anything annoying like that. I wanted a different set of annoyances. I wrote a little module (File::LinkTree::Builder) to build a tree of directories based on file metadata leading back to files in a storage area. So, given (say) my iTunes library, it could build a tree in which I could look up /Rock/80s/Island and find every rock track from Island Records in the 80’s. The module is very simple and it lets you define how to find metadata.

Well, I got my copy of Castle Greyhawk. It’s every bit as bad as I recalled and then some. I mean, there’s one level that features a B-52 bomber and offers a 5-10 thousand XP bonus to the first player who mentions that B-52 did not fly in WWII. I kept thinking that the art looked very Paranoia-esque, which made sense when I finally looked and saw that the art was done by Jim Halloway. How Paranoia-esque was it? There was a drawing of a pair of smoking boots where an adventurer once stood.

Why is it so hard to find a PDF of Castle Greyhawk?

Tonight, we (mostly I) watched The African Queen, one of the three movies left on the AFI Top 100 movies that I haven’t seen. It’s set during WWI. In one scene, Bogart and Hepburn are to be hanged by a German naval captain. Bogart asks the captain to wed him to Hepburn before they are executed, and the captain agrees.

No sooner did I get my RPG notes put into nice comfortable TiddlyWikis than version 2.2 was released. Well, that’s alright. The upgrade didn’t work with the first, easiest (but weird) method they suggested, but the second method (which is the one I would’ve guessed) worked: start a new, blank TW. Import all your tiddlers.

I especially liked the accordion and inline sliders stuff… but I’m not using it yet.

Through aldaily.com, I got this link and followed it, because I greatly admire the work of W. H. Auden.

Once again, Aaron Straup Cope has written code so I don’t have to. Last time, I wanted to back up my bookmarks from del.icio.us, so I didn’t feel paranoid that they might go away and take my bookmarks with them. (This was before I switched to Rubric.) Because Net::Delicious existed, I was able to write Net::Delicious::Simple on top of it, taking only a few minutes instead of hours of toiling with XML.

There are apparently a lot of TiddlyWiki plugins or rewrites centered around “Getting Things Done” or other project management systems. That’s not what I did today.

I’ve finished converting all my OmniOutliner and LaTeX notes to TiddlyWiki, and along the way I’ve found a few things I didn’t like or that I thought were missing. Rather than just bitch, I though I’d fix these problems, and doing so has been a load of fun. Hacking on TiddlyWiki gives me the same kind of joy and awe that I felt when I first started programming in Ruby. In a lot of ways, I think TiddlyWiki is what Kwiki wants to be. Nearly everything builds atop a few simple structures, and everything is pluggable. Writing plugins is easy, editing templates is trivial, and only a very few lines of code are needed to add new features.