I’ve created a new blog on the infiniteNIL site specifically for infiniteNIL News. So for news about infiniteNIL and its products, go to http://www.infinitenil.com/blog. If you have subscribed to the Atom feed of this blog you will now need to subscribe to the feed of the new blog. This blog will continue as well, but I will only write about things not related to infiniteNIL.

On a technical note, the new blog uses WordPress. I’ve wanted to add categories to my blog for a long time and the new Blogger beta supported that but not for a blog with FTP publishing which I used. WordPress gives me what I want and more control. I will be switching this blog over to WordPress as well.

I’ve been involved in another project for awhile and I wanted to tell you about it. The project is Agenda Redux. Basically, we are creating a new version of Lotus Agenda for the web. My friend Sonjaya Tandon started up the project and ask me to be a part of it. Recreating something like Agenda is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile, so I had to be a part of it. Sonjaya used to work on Agenda when he worked for Lotus and we worked together in Park City. Plus, we’re doing it in Ruby on Rails, so that’s bonus. I invite you to google Lotus Agenda and find out what it’s about. No personal information manager since has been able to do what Agenda could do. People still use it and go to great lengths to get an old text based UI application running under Windows, Linux, OS X, you name it. That’s how good it is. Check it out and follow the Agenda Redux project. We’re still in the early stages, but things are moving along nicely.

I recently decided to get my baseball card collection in order. I did a quick search for software on the Mac and didn’t really see anything I liked. Anybody have any software they’d recommend? How many of you would like to see a nice Baseball card collection application for the Mac? Maybe I’ll write one. Something like Delicious Library only for Card collecting.

I read Jamis Buck’s post on Returning to FireFox and decided to give it a try myself. I’m liking it. It’s seems faster and most importantly for me it doesn’t seem to be a memory hog like Safari. Safari seems to have a bad memory leak. I tend to leave my browser open all the time and with Safari my memory just keeps filling up and as soon as I quit, lots of memory is freed up. Firefox seems to be nice and steady.

37signals released Backpack today, which is their personal information manager web app. It looks pretty good. You should definitely check it out if you’re looking for something to help you get organized. Not only that, it is written in the amazing Ruby on Rails. I wish it had some of the features of the old Lotus Agenda, but maybe that’s a good thing

Jamis Buck works for 37signals and is one of the developers on Backpack. He lives down in Provo and is starting a new Utah Ruby User’s Group, which I’m excited about. The first meeting should be this month, somewhere in south Salt Lake, which I’m very happy about. Finally, some cutting edge technology in Salt Lake. Now, we need to get a Cocoa developers group going.

I finally found an app to keep track of my time. Up to this point I’ve been using an AppleWorks spreadsheet, believe it or not. I bought iWork and that inspired me to get rid of the spreadsheet so I wouldn’t have to use AppleWorks anymore (wish iWork had a spreadsheet, don’t you?).

The app I found is TimeLog. It appears to be written in RealBasic, but that didn’t deter me. That app looks good enough that I can overlook that. It appears that a Cocoa version is in the works anyway.

It’s received a lot of praise and I would have to agree. It’s pretty good. Check it out if you need a timesheet app.