I need better PIM solutions and integration

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Right now, my contacts and calendar information are very spread out, I need to integrate and organize them. Currently they look like this:

  • Personal email addresses in Mutt alias file on my server
  • Consulting clients information in Mutt alias files on my server
  • Personal, consulting, and photography contact info in Apple’s Address Book on my PowerBook, in different categories
  • Phone numbers on my cellphone, a Samsung A530s with no Bluetooth
  • Photography and consulting schedules in iCal on my my PowerBook, in different categories
  • M$ Outlook: Calendar for meetings, business contacts, tasks, notes
  • Palm Vx that syncs with M$ Outlook, but I rarely use the Vx anymore
  • emails in M$ Outlook, consulting and personal accounts on server under Maildir fromat, accessable via IMAP over SSL and mail reader like Mutt on server

I wonder if there is a device on this planet that would help me organize all this. Ideally, I want something that allows me to sync Outlook calendar and contacts onto the device under their own category (I’ll prolly call it Outlook), sync my personal stuff under personal category, so I can have all contacts info in one device… I think with Missing Sync I could do that on the PowerBook.

Emails, that’s a tough one. I don’t really care if I have access to my Exchange emails when I’m on the go. But it’d be nice to have my personal and especially my consulting emails. I will need something like Crackberry that pulls my IMAP accounts and post them to my handheld, or have a Treo with internet connection and a native IMAP client that handles multiple accounts nicely.

Ability to do IMs will be a big plus also… That’s one thing I really love the SKII for.

Maybe I’ll give the VZW Treo 650 a try and see if it can fullfill my needs…

TWS weekend

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Just got back from TWS, first day was real nice, not too hot until later in the day, took me a good 2 sessions to get back up to speed as the last time I was out there was about 6 months ago. The tires held up pretty well, I guess I am just not fast enough.

I really need to go to the track more often, but it’s such a PITA to drive out there and stuff. Next weekend if I work a corner on Sat I’ll get free track time on Sun, so I might do that.

Oh yeah, Peter traded in his Evo for an Evo RS, that car is sweet!! I would’ve bought an RS instead of MR if they could find me one. He had to drive out to California to pick it up, I don’t want one that bad myself. The MR is supposed to be faster at the track, but of course it’s the driver that really matters, and I suck. 🙁

Sunday was raining all day, only got one session in, but it was alright, at least I got to drive the MR in the rain. It felt pretty good, but people weren’t driving fast enough and running the 1.8-mile course you pretty much can only pass in the straigtaway…

Ecto new release

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Kudos to the Ecto development team, the new version is way better, this came when I got 3 days left in my evaluation. Very nice! I’ll probably get it when it expires. I wonder if they upgraded the Windoze version or not, I’ll find out when I get into the office tomorrow…

Schneier on Security: Blowfish on

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Schneier on Security: Blowfish on “24”

I immediately thought of Bruce Schneier when I watched 24, which is probably my favorite TV show. (I only TiVo 2 TV shows, 24 and OC, yeah, don’t laugh)…

I was like, damn, they know their shit, Blowfish algorithm… but then they said they had proprietary algo to crack it, I was like, damn, maybe the gov’t got a backdoor in this one too, but then she said brute-forcing it, LOL! Too funny!