It’s the last day of Summer but Fall colors are popping up.

Over the years I’ve used a bunch of tools for Getting Things Done, from the online service Tasks to Easy Task Manager to Midnight Inbox to iGTD to Outlook to, most recently, OmniFocus. The latter is clunky, fairly expensive and works only if you work to organize tasks, which in itself is a chore. Omni has a nice iPhone app (also expensive) but I’ve found that it’s too easy for tasks to be hidden in projects and contexts. And if you can’t see them you can’t do them.

I’ve been fooling around with the Mac application Things for, oh about a day now. And, it’s still alpha software. But I’m really liking it. There’s a ten dollar iPhone version that syncs with the desktop version. So far so good. I’ll report back later on the final verdict.

Maybe I’ll use it to remind myself to post more.

There was a lot on the line with the stadium setting and my impression, albeit one influenced by an enthusiastic crowd, was that Obama pulled it off. It was an aggressive, at times emotional speech and it hit all the key points. 

One funny moment: A guest speaker, Barney Smith from Indiana who lost his job to outsourcing was one of a group of ordinary people who spoke before Obama. His line that America should put Barney Smith before Smith Barney was a hit with the crowd who began chanting “Barney, Barney”. This promped a clueless journalist to ask me, “Who is Barney Smith, do you know?” Apparently she hadn’t been listening. 

A couple of iPhone shots: Hillary (the tiny figure in the light blue) speaks at the Convention Center downtown, releasing her delegates. Later, a ultimately peaceful march.

Besides getting a sunburn I got a few iphone shots around town, in the Pepsi Center and Invesco field, where preparations are already underway for Thursday.

A Denver TV station is reporting several arrests in connection with a plot to shoot Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday. High powered scoped rifles apparently were recovered and the suspects are reported to be tied to white supremacist organizations. More here. 

All in all, things are quiet in Denver. The excitement should come later in the week. In the meantime I am going to enjoy the beautiful weather.

A tornado touched down about five miles south of where i’m staying here in Denver. But fortunatly it doesn’t look like the storm is heading north towards the downtown.

Sunset on the river.