My answer to some of those issues have been to use a folding bike and combining transport modes.

A 15km ride might be 13km of RER and 2km of biking, on some trips it's pretty damn fast even compared with a car that has to contend with traffic.

It doesn't solve the rain issue on the other hand. Especially as folding bikes generally have smaller wheels that tend to skid on wet pavement.

Never tried a folding bike, but it might be fun...

After the previous attack on Charlie Hebdo in 2011, when their office was firebombed, their website got hacked.

Not sure why the previous poster thinks this might be ISIS on the other hand.

Same here.

It caused one graphical hang on my Mac and then it opened too many file descriptors, reaching the system limitations and I had to uninstall it and reboot.

"Babylonian twins"? Made by a Iraqi starting in the 90s.

http://obligement.free.fr/articles_traduction/itwshihab_en.p...

> The application is absolutely rock solid for me

There has been some bugs since Mavericks came out that still hasn't been fixed, mostly related to multiple monitors. That was an indication that it was going to be dropped.

It's fairly reliable but it's showing it's age right now.

Calibre is indeed my go to example when I need to demonstrate horrible FOSS GUI.

It was looking pretty good until that last picture.

That mains wiring is plain unsafe and almost criminal...

I used Notational Velocity but I switched a couple of years ago to one of its forks: nvALT:

http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Which adds a lot of very useful features, I can heavily recommend it.

I use NValt as well, but I held out for a while because I thought a new, possibly commercial, version might be on the horizon from the original developer, Zachary Schneirov. This was based on the following interview with him, which, BTW, offers some interesting background on NV.

An interview with Notational Velocity developer Zachary Schneirov

http://suratlozowick.com/blog/2011/12/notational-velocity-de...

Edit: As an aside, this is an interesting comment from the above (2011) interview:

> Now the first company to sell a mass-market wearable computer with a glasses-mounted display would get my money in an instant.

dumb Q: is this for apple OS only?

Yes, but it stores the actual notes as txt files in a directory so you can use other software alongside it in a multi platform environment.

Thanks, so is there a windows equivalent?

Closest equivalent I've found and use is ResophNotes (http://resoph.com/). Works well with nvALT.

I've used CouchDB's attachment feature for that purpose:

http://onabai.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/working-with-attachme...

Mine is in the mail. I can't wait to put it together and play with it.