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7:30 AM Workflow management I'm currently trying to find a decent workflow management tool both for work (issue tracking, change control, project management) and home (project management and a to-do list), but haven't found anything good yet. The most promising was wftk, but its build process is broken at the moment and it seems a bit overly idiosyncratic. I have not yet seen a commercial tool that gives you a decent trial beforehand and which will run on Linux servers without taking them over completely.

So it seems I am still likely to end up writing my own basic one, probably out of the pieces of the barely-started URQM project. This XML workflow design looks interesting, and if I do write my own tool it will probably be based on that model.

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2:10 AM Cleaning tip for 2am Having just fallen asleep before going to bed and woken up a little after 2am, I realised I still needed to empty the cat litter tray (if I don't, both cats get very grumpy during the night and might wake me up).

Here's a tip. If you are emptying a litter tray and notice the litter box itself is a bit mucky, don't decide to give it a quick wipe "while I'm there".

Ten klutzy minutes and several escaped lumps of later, and here we are.

At 2 in the morning when you're downstairs and your brain is sitting on a comfy pillow upstairs, it's a much better idea to go and join it.

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