Monthly Archives: February 2009

Four things I want to do before 40

Monday was my 39th birthday, and I can tell I'm getting old because when I was asked "what do you want to do to celebrate?" I pretty much just wanted to hang out at home, watch some DVDs and have a nice dinner. And take a nap. Granted, I can blame the redeye home from SCALE [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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