Okay. I figure if I'm going to learning curve anyway, I probably might as well start with Tasker. I don't mind tweaking stuff ad infinitum.

My problem with Tasker is that it provides so much more potential that I get brain freeze at the possibilities. Variables, Liese, variables. You can pass variables.

But I will start off by just converting the Locale stuff that was actually useful (god, the day I turned Locale off to save battery life? So not worth it--I'd totally gotten used to my phone automatically behaving itself during work meetings. Get a charging cable instead).

Nom nom nom, variables.

Okay. I bought everything. I am going to have to do work work for, like, an hour, because I can tell already my whole evening is going to be caught up in learning curve.

And then maybe I should just sit down and do some thinking about what I *want* it to do, exactly.

then maybe I should just sit down and do some thinking about what I *want* it to do, exactly.

Seriously, do this first. You'll change your list when you get into the app and see what it can do, but I think it helps you to solve your problems if you quantify them first, and it will also give you a clear path for what to learn.

(Um, Systems Analyst reflex there--feel free to pretend it never happened)

Hee, no, you're right. Right now I'm all handwavey, "It should help me, like, and do stuff when I want it to" but there are some very clear specific cases, and I should get a distinct vision of what I'd like to see.

I created a logic for every damned place I went to more than once. It was seriously overkill. And I'm sure that once I get elbow deep in Tasker's capabilities, I will go even more insane if I don't have a clear plan going in.

Of course, lack of a clear plan is why I'm still running Locale. Well, that and the knowledge that I'm getting a new phone soon. But I can totally get a head start on my tablet.

I just found an official TiVo app. It's the first thing that's made me want to get a Premiere. That has much tighter network integration. But with this, I can do some of the basic my.tivo.com remote functionality, except from my home network. It does mean I have a better search and record interface, but it's not tight enough to tell me if there are conflicts without sending an email to my unit. Hmmph. Sadfacedness.

And I have bought the paid Scrabble iPod app, and I can't work out how to access my games I'm playing in the free app. Surely it should just be connecting to whatever FB connects to, right? I want to play Scrabble without going into FB, dammit. And without ads. I've paid my 99¢.

I should check and see if the HD Directivo works with that app. Not that I have it. But I could free if I wanted! And then I'd have to pay. But still!

Scrabble is seriously hinky on my phone. Like, crashes all the time, making me inadvertently abandon games, hinky. Which sucks because I really like it.

I have Scrabble Free for android, but I'm trying to give these motherfuckers money to take the ads away. But I can't log into EAs marvellously complex Origin system, and apparently no way I'm willing to refer to myself online to people I knew before the internet is a) valid b) not taken. Frustrating.

I already had an Origin account, so I just did that.