That's right, scandal

Today I took 617 photos of documents. I think that's a personal best. Scandals are great because they generate a lot of records--I only looked at three folders today, but they were chock full of letters, reports, financial information, etc etc. This scandal seems to be a real classic, about money and control of a pretty valuable bit of property in Havana. Apparently the Cuban Baptists thought they owned it, and the US Southern Baptists thought they owned it. Yay, scandal!

Tomorrow I'm going to go visit Helen and Dave in Lexington, stopping off for a picnic and some spelunking at Mammoth Cave. I'm in the area--why not? For the geeks in the audience, check out their many fun brochures.

Note-taking programs, and other random software, for Macs

I've been doing some research on note-taking programs for Macs. I decided on SOHO Notes, but others might like something else (especially considering that once my 30-day trial is up, it will cost me $40). Many of these ideas came from Allison's blog.
VoodooPad
NoteTaker
Mori

I also use Zotero for keeping track of references, inserting footnotes, and creating bibliographies. It's free!

Also found a few other interesting software possibilities for other jobs, which I like the idea of playing around with. But realistically, I will never use them.
RapidWeaver -- for creating websites
Sente -- for keeping track of new journal articles, etc. in your field. I might use this someday
VersionTracker -- for keeping updated on, um, updates to your software
PDFShrink -- for making PDF files smaller. I have my own probably inefficient system for this
SuperDuper! -- for backing up. I really should use this
OmniOutliner -- I have several friends who swear by this
DevonThink -- I don't really know what this is; it seems to be a database, but from the way they talk about it on the website you'd think it's one of those better-than-human cyborgs or something. pretty funny.
GoogleDesktop