I keep a list of topics in a Google Docs document. Whenever I come across something I thing would be interesting to write about, I add it to that list. If it’s a web page I sometimes tag it on delicious.com. That way I can come back and write about any of the topics when I have the time.

Hope that helps,

Aijaz

# set the title of an xterm to $PWD
function xtitle()
  {
    if test "$TERM" = "xterm" -o "$DISPLAY" != ""; then
        ROOT=''
        if test "$UID" = "0"; then ROOT='# '; fi
        HOSTNAME=`hostname | tr [a-z] [A-Z]`
        echo -e "\33]2;$HOSTNAME $ROOT  $PWD\07"
        echo -e "\33]1;$HOSTNAME $ROOT  $PWD\07"
   fi
  }

function cd()
  {
    if [ x"${1}" = x ]
    then
      builtin cd "${HOME}"
    else
      builtin cd "${1}"
    fi
    xtitle
  }

function pd()
  {
      if [ x"${1}" = x ]
      then
          builtin pushd +1
      else
          builtin pushd "$1"
      fi
      xtitle
  }

function po()
  {
      if [ x"${1}" = x ]
      then
          builtin popd +0
      else
          builtin popd "$1"
      fi
      xtitle
  }

function sd()
{
   builtin dirs -v
}

I put them in my ~/Env/bash/funcs file which gets sourced by ~/.bashrc

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