I am so tired of getting spammed by my own employer! Somehow I belong to all these irrelevant email lists, so half of my inbox is filled with a bunch of junk that means absolutely nothing to me. I am especially tired of geting these anouncements about some shmuck being promoted to some random management position in Argentina.
Maybe someone will catch on!
Indispensable to most businesses today, e-mail can be a millstone around the necks of office workers and the corporate IT professionals who serve them. Bloated in-boxes conceal rather than expose critical e-mail messages, and vast archives of spam and useless messages clog servers and network pipes.
Skilled professionals waste precious hours scanning in-boxes and browsing Web sites for vital information. Saying “enough is enough,” many IT pros are turning to RSS technology for relief from e-mail malaise.
“E-mail was never designed to be a news source,” said Charles Kevin Hill, IT entrepreneur at consumer products giant Procter & Gamble, in Cincinnati. Hill’s job is to see that the company’s knowledge workers get news they can use in their work, free of the e-mail clutter that could so easily plague them.
RSS Offers Relief from Enterprise E-Mail Overload
Published at January 31, 2007
in Food.
A co-worker of mine brought me some chocolate from Slovenia made with the “virgin” salt from the local salt beds…. damn. Not much more to say, but if you have never had chocolate with a noticeable kick of salt. Get some.
Here’s what I tried
I am so tempted by all of this Vista Frenzy… The ready boost feature alone is so tempting…
We redesigned the memory manager in Windows Vista so that if you give the system more memory, it uses that memory much more efficiently than previous operating systems via a technique called SuperFetch — part of Windows Vista’s intelligent heuristic memory management system. And so Windows Vista on a PC with even more than 1 GB of primary memory (say 2 GB) will generally outperform Windows XP on that same machine — especially once you have been using the machine for some time because Windows Vista learns what you do the most often and optimizes for this.
check out this blog
I just love these types of articles…
The keepers of the so-called Doomsday Clock, which counts down to Armageddon, today moved its hands closer to midnight for the first time in four years to reflect the growing threats to mankind from nuclear proliferation and climate change.
Published at January 16, 2007
in Food.
I like a good steak now and then. My husband… could eat filet oscar 3 meals a day for a week and not get tired of it. We really like Smith and Wollensky. We went there on one of our first dates in New York, and it is just one of our special places… even if it is the one in Houston. This news is a little sad. Maybe nothing will change, but you never know…
I am not usually all that politically motivated, but sometimes I just have to voice my opinion. I am all for exposing children to a variety of ideas, but I ran across a book that creeped me out a bit.
I just don’t feel all that comfortable introducing partisan politics to children of picture book age. Next the Republicans will come up with a book called “God wants us to be Republicans.”
Indoctrinate yourselves here
Published at January 3, 2007
in Finance.
This is a good article about 401Ks and Roth IRAs. I hate that I am old enough to worry about these things…
The earlier the better though!
But by putting money in both a 401(k) and a Roth IRA, you’re hedging your bets. I call this strategy “tax diversification” because, like asset allocation, it prevents you from making an all-or-nothing bet (although in this case, you’re protecting yourself by diversifying your exposure to tax rates instead of different types of investments).
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