Image via Wikipedia I’ve come to the realization that email is destroying my productivity. It’s not a distraction; it’s destruction. There are days that I find I’ve gotten nothing done but handling emails. It’s a completely victim-oriented approach to time management, having your day driven by what drops into your inbox. So I began the [...]
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Google announces Priority Inbox, only six days too late
By Lee on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
The pain of finding a domain name
By Lee on Thursday, April 10th, 2008 | 3 Comments
I know why Web 2.0 brings with it all the groovy spellings and made up words like Flickr, Friendster, and Facebook (and that’s just the F’s). It’s because the damned cybersquatters have already registered every decent English word and phrase you can imagine. There’s nothing left for the people who are actually trying to do [...]
Read More...Symlinks for Windows
By Lee on Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | 2 Comments
One of the handiest things I learned at No Fluff Just Stuff this weekend was from Neal Ford, who showed a way to set up soft links (symbolic links, symlinks, it’s all the same idea) in Windows. This allows you to install different versions of JDKs, Tomcat, Groovy, Grails, JRuby, whatever, and use the latest [...]
Read More...Can you identify the source of your spam? Can you shut it down?
By Lee on Thursday, June 7th, 2007 | No Comments
It’s amazing what I can see, thanks to the use of domain-specific email addresses. I can see when one company uses another company’s mailing list. I can see when a company doesn’t honor its unsubscribe requests. I can also see when a company’s mailing list has been compromised. Best of all, I have the power [...]
Read More...Sharpcast seamlessly syncs photos
By Lee on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 | No Comments
I’ve long thought that digital asset management for the masses is going to be one of the big challenges in coming years. Now that our personal photos, home movies, personal correspondence, and most of our productivity are stored on hard drives, the effort and expertise required to management, maintain, and preserve these important keepsakes are [...]
Read More...GMail hover “From:” address broken?
By Lee on Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 | No Comments
What’s happened to GMail? I used to be able to hover over the sender’s text name and see a pop-up hint showing the actual email address. That stopped working a week or two ago. I miss it!
Read More...And we’re back…
By Lee on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 | No Comments
Ugh! What a frustrating time it’s been, having my blog broken. There have been so many times I wanted to post something, but I couldn’t, because Pebble had lost its mind. It would sporadically accept new posts, then trash them. All the while, it’s spewing errors into my Tomcat logs at a rate of about [...]
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