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I calculated that as of notebook #94, I had been writing in Field Notes for 3,469 days*. Since the notebooks are 48 pages long, that puts me at 4,512 pages. So it looks like I average 1.3 notebook pages per day.
A while back I bought a DYMO LabelManager Plug N Play Label Maker to help organize things. Before I bought it I had done some cursory searching and saw there were Linux drivers, and I set up CUPS, fixed permissions (of course), and installed the DYMO drivers, but nothing was showing up.
Well, turns out there’s a reason for that – the LabelManager PnP actually labels itself as a HID device, not a printer! (lsusb -v to peep the details)…
Luckily, with a bit of searching, I found a nice little Python 3 script called dymoprint (github) that reverse-engineered the USB protocol and works perfectly. Another dev subsequently wrote a Perl script that generates 64px tall bitmaps to the printer. (I have lots of existing image generation code to build a Python version of this, but honestly, the first dymoprint script does just about everything I want, which is just to print some simple labels).
I saw that someone else did get it to run on CUPS – it looks like you have to set up modeswitching, but I haven’t tested that personally.
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality, also coined by British naval historian and author Cyril Northcote Parkinson in the 1950s.
The Law of Triviality states that the amount of time spent discussing an issue in an organization is inversely correlated to its actual importance in the scheme of things. Major, complex issues get the least discussion while simple, minor ones get the most discussion.
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality is also known as “bike-shedding,” after the story Parkinson uses to illustrate it.
The new #GTD Implementation Guide: http://bit.ly/bV6xGX
4 minute David Allen podcast on goal setting: http://bit.ly/5KL1Uq #gtd
Every day, eleven time thieves gang up on you and work to take some of that precious time away from productive use.
A weblog about Getting Things Done
One Geeks Search For Productivity and Innovation
An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
I still have plenty more to say about being a slacker at work
MindMapping ist eine Strategie, Gedanken hierarchisch zu ordnen und zu visualisieren.
The basic but powerful way to get back on track