Living in text files

Here’s a crazy idea: keep all your stuff in one big text file! I really can’t see myself doing this, though I see the advantages. I use OneNote and Vault (an old shareware program) on Windows, and iOrganize on the Mac to keep track of all my stuff. Oh, and of course Palm Desktop in conjunction with my Palm i705. The result: stuff all over the place!

Google Talk

Just for yuks, I downloaded Google Talk today. I’ve never been much into IM, but since this is from Google, maybe I’ll be able to do something interesting with it at some point. I’ve been kind of curious for a while about the possibility of using IM for various system notifications and stuff like that. Other IM clients I’ve played with haven’t had useful command-line versions (or APIs) that could be called from a script. I’m kind of curious to see what’ll happen with this one.