Week 4: gaining speed

So here it is, another week down and another week in review post!

Thankfully, the past week has been far more engaging and active than many of those that preceded it. I got caught up in the whole Ireland SOPA/ACTA debate and wrote a letter which I sent to countless representatives. In retrospect, I feel that letter says a awful lot about how I feel about the way that the Internet benefits our modern lives and promotes culture, artistic expression and even entrepreneurism. Without any of which, we would be a much poorer nation. I'm not sure what impact, if any it had, especially considering the mostly form letter replies I received it response, but that is the way of things I suppose.

I attended two events recently: Dublin Unity3D Development Discussion and the Effective Fundraising Seminar. Ironically enough, they both took place near or at Tog and only a day apart from each other. The Fundraising seminar was particularly insightful, not least because I was the youngest person there by decent a margin. 

I left out that last week I purchased a Macbook Air to bring to these events, conferences and the like. iPads, I find are just too unwieldy for the task of accurate and quick note taking, particularly when what you want to transpose is the exact verbiage of the speaker and there's no hope of me doing that with paper and pen.

So I began using Evernote as my note taking implement of choice and it seems to be working quite well for me. In the past I have had notes summarily deleted or corrupted due to Evernote's synching so I'm still backing up my notes elsewhere until I feel like I can trust Evernote. In the meantime, however I am very much liking it for taking notes. I was able to very quickly take down points of interest from both events, which I think would've been impossible with a notepad and really difficult with an iPad, certainly given the speed at which people spoke.

The text editing leaves something to be desired, you cant edit line spacing and there are some weird bugs if you copy/paste blocks of text from other programs, but apart from that it's doing the job splendidly.

By the way, a Macbook Air 13" does in fact fit inside the iPad pocket of a Scottevest jacket. The zip wont close, but it's better than carrying a bag sometimes.

I also did a bit of investigating of one of the business ideas that's been floating around. Still waiting for a call back from the supplier(s) for that, but nothing really to say about it just yet. I've been working through some other ideas also and have recently come to something that I may be settling on, we'll see. Nothing I want to talk about publicly yet, but its a good sign.

Not much else to report other than that. My printer is playing up, I'm still working on the iOS/Web App from last year despite all efforts to complete that project with haste.