You got me! April Fools! -- Clint (aka Carsten)
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Sven Bretfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > > Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The important point I would like to make here is that for all > > intents and purposes, Org-mode *is* taskpaper! > > Here is what I think: Carsten *is* Clint! > > This was a very well planned, long prepared, identity-shifting and, > indeed, very nasty April's joke. > > I'm reminded on the philosopher Paul Riccoer, who stated that words > cease to be controlled by the speaker as soon as he writes them down > and, thereby, makes them subject to interpretation. I think I was the > first one to bring up the issue of complexity in the org/taskpaper > thread. I never wanted to complain about this. In fact, I like it that > way, because coping with complexity creates new ideas from time to > time, even for a simple user. Since I use Org-mode (for more than a > year now) I have learned many new features that I would miss very > much, the table editor being one of them. I deem it an absolutely > meaningful feature within a task management system, since it allows > one to store a certain type of "reference material" (as David Allen > would term it) directly in connection with associated projects. Great! > > I didn't take a look at the new ++ schedules and, so far, have no idea > what they are for. But sooner or later I will come across a posting in > this list, that will produce a new idea how this feature could make my > life a little more easy. I'm sure about that. This is how a non-geek > like myself makes use of complexity: slowly growing into it. And this > is one of the main reasons why I read this list. > > By the way, I don't think that many newcomers are terrified by the > complexity of Org-mode. Who -- as a non-geek newbee -- reads through > the code and notices its complexity at all? They hear of it by a short > howto on the web, download the package and start using it according to > the howto. Gradually, as they read more and more pages of the manual, > they become acquainted with the more subtle functions. Am I right? > > Thanks a lot for creating Org-mode > > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode > > -- -- Clint Clint Laskowski, CISSP [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
