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Using IRC as Time Tracker

I have tried all sort of time tracker, todo lists and what not but still don't really get  what I want out of that tools. The requirement is very basic and simple, a tool that allow me to track how much time I have spent on certain things throughout the day. While there are lot of great tools with a degree of simplicity, it still having too much friction for me to effectively use them. Emacs orgmode  I think pretty much close to what I want. That just a guess since I just gleaned over it's features and what people are saying about it. But to learn emacs just to use this is a bit too much. I took note in vim in outline mode - that's how my mental mode work. It would be nice if vim can record the time whenever I add new outline. Most of the todo lists or time tracker out there only allow you to define simple title and explanation of the task. If that was web based app, don't ever think of having some outlining support. Then I noticed that it quite easy for me to rebui...

Read text file on non JSR-75 phone

So my Samsung GT-E2230M does not support JSR-75 which is Java API on mobile devices that allow access to the device's file system such as the SD card. This mean any midp application in the phone can't  simply open arbitrary text files and also mean I can't use Opera Mini save webpage feature. Searching around, I found EbookMe application that allow me to package a text files into a complete midp application to be installed on the phone just like any java apps on the phone. It a little bit cumbersome but at least now I have something to read while in waiting and away from my laptop and Internet connection. Using it quite simple, provided you have Java properly setup on your system. sh ebookme.sh -Dname="Whatever Prog" -Dout=whatever whatever.txt The unzipped tarball provide a wrapper script ebookme.sh that you can run by simply passing the text file name as parameter. The -Dname and -Dout is optional to customize the name of generated midp app. The command...