I’m sure every one who uses email frequently, has suffered more than one email discussion.
Usually you may say things in an email that you wouldn’t say in person, or reply furious about something before counting to ten. This screenshot shows my little trick:
I’m using Apple Mail with Addressbook, but most of email programs support adding pictures to your contacts.
Find a picture of every of your colleagues, or people you write most and assign it to their contact info.
Make sure he or she is smiling, or with a lovely face, or even use a picture that reminds you of the best moments you have spent with that person.
Next time you are furious with that person (no matter what the cause is) you’ll see that picture and it might help you calm down and think in positive. It works quite well for me.
If you do serious web development, you sure have multiple working environments. This is true for ruby on rails, but I’ll guess you’ll do the same using other frameworks or languages. I’ve found a quite useful Firefox extension to switch from development to production (and back) with just a click (or a keystroke: Ctrl-Shift-X): Server Switcher
This is helping me redesigning the MySQL training part of our website, and can be useful in some other situations.
Have you ever thought about getting rid of something, and found yourself wondering will I need this in the future?
If the answer is yes, you may have your house full of useless stuff, just like me. I found today 15 great de-cluttering tips, and this was the most insightful for me:
Take all your items that you unsure about getting rid of (e.g. I might need this someday…), put them in a box, seal it and date it for 1 year in the future. When the date comes, and you still didn’t need to open it to get anything, donate the box WITHOUT OPENING IT. You probably won’t even remember what there was in the box.
Quick question: am I the only one having problems to connect to feeds.feedburner.com? Tell me if my feed works for you.
Update: it seems it’s my laptop. weird!
Update: Gotcha! I don’t have any idea of how this happened, but it’s fixed right now $ route get 66.150.96.119
route to: feeds.feedburner.com
destination: feeds.feedburner.com
gateway: 192.168.101.3
interface: en1
flags:
recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire
0 0 2840 212 316 0 1500 0
warhol:~ koke$ route get google.com
route to: py-in-f99.google.com
destination: default
mask: default
gateway: 192.168.1.1
interface: en1
flags:
recvpipe sendpipe ssthresh rtt,msec rttvar hopcount mtu expire
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Today this other video is gaining popularity:
Update: the video has been removed from youtube, but here it is again, with a second part
It’s really fun and any of you who have experienced the weirdness of youtube commenters will enjoy it even more. It’s not only fun but maybe the best way to laugh at their direct competition. Brilliant!
It’s amazing how can it be that from the 150+ rss feeds I follow, one of those which make me laugh more frequently is the Urban Dictionary’s word of the day. It’s not so much about the jargon itself, which I must admit it’s sometimes incredibly fun, but the examples given.
aibohphobia: The irrational fear of palindromes (words that read the same forwards and backwards).
Dude 1: Hey, what’s your name?
Dude 2: Bob.
Dude 1: AAAAAAAAAAH! *Runs and hides behind sofa*
Bob: Wow.
Dude 1: AAAAAAAAAAH! *Runs away and falls down stairs*
Or at least, that’s what a recent study shows. According to the CDW Business Rearview Mirror survey, 73% of those who described themselves as “total geeksâ€? reported double-digit average annual growth in their businesses over the past 5 years. Nearly half – 48% – of the tech savviest reported that their businesses reached the 100-employee milestone with in 5 years of launch, compared to just one-third of all survey respondents.
Since I first knew about openID it sounded like a tremendously great idea for me. I’ve wanted a distributed login system like this for years, but nothing is perfect. We all now the advantages: you aren’t tied to a single company to handle your data, are you?
Well, if you don’t want (or can’t or don’t know how) to setup your own openID server you will have to use a hosted system. Having one common authentication system for all the web services you use is a great thing, but we have to be aware this represents a single point of failure. I don’t rely on this system to get my work done, but this error shown above could have been a real problem for me if I had.
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