John Cade

Attempt #2 at the post I was trying to make yesterday.

1.  I’m starting to collect posters from Nashville’s own Hatch Show Print, one of the oldest letterpress shops in the U.S.  A great gallery of the shop here and of some of their work here.   Currently seeking: poster from Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals’ August 2007 show at the Ryman Auditorium.

2.  If you’re on the GTD bandwagon, one way to save some time and do things faster (at least for Mac users out there) is to use one of these great productivity tools: Butler, Quicksilver, or LaunchBar.  Each of these programs (opened by pressing only two keys on your keyboard) allows you to launch applications, control iTunes, open files or folders, and complete several other tasks that would otherwise take longer, all from one window and by making only a few keystrokes.  My current choice is Butler.  I’ve heard LaunchBar is great, but it isn’t free.  Which brings me to my next point.

3.  I’m getting Married in less than 2 months!  I can’t believe how close it is.  I apologize that we have not yet sent out invites.

4.  Meredith and I signed the lease for our new home yesterday.  The place is the upstairs of a really neat, older house in the Green Hills area of Nashville.  I move in on the 20th of April.  Meredith will start living there the day we get back from our honeymoon!

5.  I was fortunate enough to attend the first showing of the inspiring documentary Sons of Lwala.  It was directed, produced, and written by Barry Simmons, a former Nashville news anchor.  The documentary follows two Vanderbilt medical students from Africa who fulfill their late fathers dream of opening a medical clinic in their small village in Kenya.   The clinic still needs a lot of support.  I bought my first hatch print at the benefit.

6.  I’m really starting to understand Twitter and some great uses for it.  Check back for an entire post about it.  Yes, it can be that useful.  And I don’t mean for telling me what you had for lunch.  While I’m on the topic, Twitterrific is a great program for Mac users to get “tweets” on their desktop.

7.  Growl may be one of the best Mac programs ever created.  Want to see a summary of that last email you got without opening your mail client?  Downloaded a new album on Amazon last week and aren’t familiar with what songs you are currently listening to?  Growl gives you system-wide notifications on your desktop.  The appear only for as long as you want them to, as a sticky note of sorts.  Still confused?  Check out their about page.

8.  This is very old news, but poster lovers and Katrina survivors alike will certainly enjoy this site:   Hurricane Poster Project.  There is some really stunning artwork to see here.  Too bad I didn’t have any money when they were for sale.

Hate is a strong word.  But I’m near using it.  Let’s face it.  When you write an entire blog post, like that one that isn’t posted here right now because of what I am about to say, and it is not formatted properly (even though the Wordpress WYSIWYG editor shows it correctly), and then you go and edit each and every line putting the appropriate <p> tags in the correct places to fix the problem, and then Wordpress decides that it’s going to duplicate every paragraph you’ve written, strip the hyperlinks out of your post, and then re-format everything however it wants, you don’t really feel like typing it all again.  And you want to say hate.  But something inside of you tells you that you may need Wordpress one day, and you don’t want to offend it.  The moral of the story:  I had something useful to say and I’m too frustrated to post it again because Wordpress messed it up.  Bad.  I’ll try again tonight.  Oh, and just a word of advice - this is probably a problem linked to Safari.  Use Firefox!