I have decided to reorganise my blog a little with new categories for Feeder and KIT, since many of the posts didn’t really fit that well in Software Development, because they were me blowing my own trumpet (pardon?). I’ve also added a Syndication category to deal with all things to do with RSS, RDF, Atom, etc.

Riveting post this, innit?

The problem, dear reader, is that I have been doing my accounts all day in readiness for my tax return, which means I’ve been up to my eyeballs in paper, stapling things together and filing stuff away. Being ultra-organised doesn’t really suit me, but once I get the bug I can’t stop. Now even our four cats are lined up in chronological and alphabetical order and held together with an elastic band.

I think I need help.

You can find the full transcript of Steve Jobs’ speech to the Stanford University graduates here.

Normally Jobs’s private life is justifiably and understandably just that, so make the most of it. While it could almost be considered a strange speech to give to these graduates, I thought it was very interesting and great advice, having followed a similar path to Jobs myself. I dropped out of education early for the same reasons and have experienced life joining the dots in ways I could never have planned nor would ever expect. Of course I’m only 30, so there’s a long way to go yet! 😉

The interview with Adam Curry on BBC’s Click Online that featured in his podcast a few months ago is now available online, with accompanying article here.

There is an article on Wired entitled Tiger Tweaks Could Kill Folders, the main gist being that with Spotlight the 20 year old practice of organizing files into hierarchical folders (which incidentally is another one of those metaphors that doesn’t extend to the real world) could be on the way out. It’s an interesting read and while I don’t for one minute think we’ll see the end of the Finder or nested folders I do wholeheartedly agree that people want to see their files in different ways and find them quickly. In that sense, Spotlight goes a long way to alleviating the pain of organising all your stuff. Steve Jobs mentioned also this point in his WWDC 2005 Keynote.

This was the whole idea I had behind KIT and yet the most popular feature request was that it include hierarchical folders – I had so many I decided to write something much too long, complicated and now somewhat outdated about why it was a bad idea, back in my pre-blogging days.

KIT was modelled as an iTunes for your files; something different where you could find things almost instantly and organize them in ways liberated from the file system. Like Gmail, its motto is to search not sort. Thankfully quite a lot of people got KIT but since many of its selling points were made much less persuasive by Spotlight and Smart Folders in Tiger, I will be addressing this wholeheartedly in the next few months.

Feeder and Yours Truly get a great mention on Show 19 of the MyMacGuys podcast as they break with their not-too-geeky tradition and run through what they do and use to get a show out.

As they say on the show, we’ve been trying to get together for an interview for a while, but what with my house move and their Skype problems it hasn’t happened yet, but probably will sometime.

Anyway, thanks guys!