Taskify Coming Soon!

My newest project, Taskify, will hopefully be available pretty soon at http://www.taskify.net (damn those .com squatters)

Taskify is something that I started to write for myself only, a simple, quick, intuitive task list management system.  After thinking about it for a while though, I kept coming up with ideas for some great features, especially along the lines of Text Message Integration, and I'm currently working on putting together a sort of "command line" parser that will really be the the guts of the app.  I think it's going to be pretty sweet, and I hope that it is at least useful to some others.

John Mayer makes Coding Music!

Let's all face it, John Mayer is probably the greatest musical talent of our generation, and I believe he will go down as one of the all time greats.  He appeals to everyone from 15 year old girls to the hardest of hard-core blues enthusiasts.  You would be hard-pressed to find someone that does a better cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Bold as Love", and his two-part saga in tribute to New York "City Love" and "Covered in Rain" are two of the most expressive, cohesive, and emotional works that I've ever heard.

Most importantly though, John Mayer writes great coding music.  My most productive 10:25 of the day is when "Covered in Rain" randomly shows up on the iPod.  His music has a beat and a rhythm that most music today lacks.  His use of an n'th of a second of silence right before a blaring chord is unparalleled in music today.  If I were going to tell you to to buy 1 CD to try John's music out, I would probably tell you to get Try, a CD he did along with two other musicians as The John Mayer Trio, but his newest work Continuum would also be an excellent choice.  Alternatively, both "City Love" and "Covered in Rain" are featured on his live Any Given Thursday CD.  All of these should be at your local CD shop (if you still have one) or from Amazon.

JM also has quite a sense of humor, which he shows quite often on his blog.