Monthly Archives: February 2009
Back up Gmail
Gmail is a great thing, but if you want to keep an offline archive in the off chance that Google accidentally loses your email -- or if you just like to have a separate archive offine -- the easiest way to do this is to POP the email regularly.
Some use Thunderbird or other mailers for [...]
2009: The year of "Get Over It"
By all accounts, 2009 has been and will continue to be a rough year. People are losing jobs, and homes, left and right. Economic stress turns to personal stress, and before you know it -- we're all having a pretty crappy time. There's nothing we can do about some of our problems, but for the [...]
And open source! (My 7 things...)
In my 7 things post, I notice that I said: "I’m pretty sure that Road Runner cartoons are the pinnacle of Western Civilization, along with The Beatles and Douglas Adams."
Duh, I forgot to say "open source" -- perhaps because open source is no longer limited to "Western Civilization" but belongs to the entire world now.
But, [...]
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7 Things
In her debut blog post, my friend Jennifer Cloer has tapped me for the 7 Things meme that's sweeping the intarwebs. Really glad to see Jennifer starting her own blog -- she's one smart PR person, and I hope she'll be sharing some PR science over on her whiteboard.
How the 7 Things meme works:
1. Link [...]
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Four things I want to do before 40