Here’s a matrix comparing various text-based markup languages (like Markdown, Textile, etc.) I should really learn one of these and start using it.

Interesting weblog post from David Allen, talking about experiences with web-based organizational tools. I think we can probably expect to see some sort of subscription-based service from DavidCo in the not-too-distant future.

A rather belated congratulations to Brig and Jason on the birth of Ronan.

One of the tags I follow on Flickr is whatsinyourbag. A recent photo features a Chrome Industries bag, which is great, because I was thinking I was the only person who carried one or something…

Starting to recover a bit more. Was able to shovel the inch or so of overnight snow out of the driveway, although it took a couple of rounds of work, with copious resting in between, before it was done. More reading, more TV watching. Fever broke sometime during the day, which was a big relief. Despite being fairly well caught up on sleep, still don’t have much energy reserves.

Still sick, but starting to come out of it a bit. Still spent most of the day sitting on my butt covered up in blankets, but was able to read part of the time, instead of staring at the idiot box.

Another day of being sick. Being sick starting to get more than a little bit old. From talking to TheWife, she too was still not having a very good time. The brain fog did ease up to the point where I could switch from watching bad action movies to watching old seasons of Buffy. Still not up to reading any mail.

Up at 7:30am. Still sick. TheWife and TheChild headed off to the airport; TheWife was feeling better but not 100%. I went back to bed.

Got the phone call in the afternoon, letting me know that they’d made it okay. TheWife was sounding considerably less chipper.

Woke up around 8am, to find that the crud had hit me full on. Fever, chills, snot everywhere. Sent off an email to work to let them know I wouldn’t be around, then crawled back into bed. TheChild was also running a fever, so it was drugs for her. Mostly a day of laying around and not that much activity for me. TheWife spent a good part of the day trying to get herself and TheChild packed for a trip to Chicago.

Woke up around 7am, feeling like I was coming down with something. Was more accurate than I realized. Bit of playing with TheChild before heading into work. Her “woof” sometimes changes into something that sounds quite a bit like “giga-woof”. (Clearly, this is a very large woof.)

Relatively normal work day. Lots of small face-to-face meetings for some reason, and consequently less productive work time. Got a call in the afternoon from TheWife. She’d had a lunch meeting in Delaware, and had taken sick on the way there. She soldiered on through the meeting, but now, on her way back home, she wasn’t sure she was up to watching TheChild in the evening. She was still going to fetch her from day care, but she wanted to be sure I was going to be there to meet them when they got home.

That pretty much stopped the remainder of my day in its tracks; I
tidied up some loose threads and then headed for home. Made it there
slightly before TheWife and TheChild arrived. Once they got home,
TheWife headed for bed, and TheChild and I played for a bit. We had
some dinner, and then I got TheChild ready for bed and got her to
sleep.

Rest of the evening was very quiet — was starting to feel not that
great myself. Bed at 10:30am.