Fact: my life is chaotic, even on a day when it seems like I have a grip on things.

One of my biggest frustrations in life however, is the fact that I am extremely unorganised most of the time. To keep track of things, I make little lists – and by little I refer to the size of the actual piece of paper I make the list on … just makes it easier to move around, in plain view and unfortunately lose too.

I have been looking around for a simple system for PC and today I found one in the form of Swift To-Do List from Dextronet. I downloaded the “Lite” version, because it suits both my needs and my budget – it’s FREE. There is an upgrade available as well, at USD45.

Swift To-Do allows me to create different to-do lists with items; in other words: I can create a separate list for designwork, printing, web and more or create separate lists with various deadlines per client and subsequently set reminders for each. Lite limits me to 15 to-do lists and 25 tasks per list … clever, because by the time my requirement exceeds the limits of the Lite version, I’ll definitely be investing in the upgrade.

This just a quickie …

While I am not one to promote the use of hacks, I found myself in an emergency situation with a website that went live with a serious attitude problem in Safari.

The problem (in essence) was with a relatively positioned element (I understand than the same problem manifests in defining margin values and who knows what else) that was sitting lower than intended in Safari.

The first hack that I tried was the floating pound (#) sign hack which it turns out, much to my dismay, only works for Safari 2 and older. My efforts led me to CSS-discuss which led me to dithered.com who were kind enough to include a google custom search engine on their site which led me to theMechanism who got it from somewhere else … enough boring details already.

The solution looked thus:

@media screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio:0) {
/* Safari 3.0 and Opera 9 rules here */
}

It uses a CCS3 selector which is not necessarily entirely future proof although the -webkit portion is (according to rumour) not likely to be supported by other browsers … let’s hope the fix holds. The hack does work for Opera 9 too.

There are other minor bugs that I wish to fix on the site before revealing the url, would love to get some feedback from Safari 2 users though.