Verbosity 2.0 ~ Talking about life on Drupal

Dreaming in Linux. Just prior to making the switch from the Macintosh to Linux as my primary operating system you could find me in the Sonic Research Studio editing tapes and doing other fun stuff with audio. This had been going on for a couple years during my time spent in the Communication School at SFU.

For all of the domains hosted on this server they have one thing in common: they all use ecartis as their mailing list manager.

Why ecartis as opposed to mailman? It was a tough choice, but it basically came down to the configuration steps required on Debian. Mailman needed to be recompiled or something like that or I would have had to redesign a bunch of webpages to get it going. Ecartis just works once you know the system.

I am now ready to give up paper. Long ago I gave up on Outlook's calendaring functionality as my primary time management system. At work it proves useful and it does a lot of good things. As you would expect though, I have a better way.

For a long time that better way was paper. I like to have a 7-day spread in front of me at all times in meetings and at play. During my hour-long commutes to Simon Fraser this was a flexible way of managing time. Since then my needs have changed only slightly but the nature of my work has changed too.

For those of you who actually keep a regular schedule you will love this one. How often do you find that Unix is so much fun but it just can't do the simple math to figure out what week of the month it is? Well, with this script you will fix that in short order.

To accomplish this I owe one to Irek Szczesniak, who had created a script to put a calendar onto an image. Irek's code figured out what the week of the month was in some simple statements so I expanded upon these to produce some creative output.

Use 1: Finding the week of the month