Web/Tech
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We’re Wired
A big shout-out to Jen from Gothamist, who received a Rave Award from Wired Magazine. I’m really proud to be part of the Gothamist team, and Jen truly deserves this honor!
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Just Catchin’ Up
First of all, in case anyone was wondering what was up with yesterday’s post, Vox is a new blogging system that’s in previews right now. I’ve been playing around with it — let me know if you’d like an invitation. Not sure I like the way it displays here on TypePad when you cross-post, though.
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Technology — A Love/Hate Relationship
Last weekend I purchased an iPod nano to replace the antique 4G iPod I’ve had for years. I fell in love immediately; I could hardly believe that this teeny thing held the same amount of music as my old iPod, which suddenly seemed like a brick. We got along swimmingly for a few days, until
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Feed Me
So some of you may have been getting sporadic email updates from Bloglet at times when I updated this site. As you probably know, Bloglet has been incredibly unreliable lately; I’ve gotten comments from friends that they hadn’t gotten an update in weeks and they were worried that I had cut them off. It wasn’t
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From 700 to Zero
in . . . oh, about a week. I’m using 43 Folders Inbox Zero series on how to keep your inbox empty. Given that for the past five years I have used my email inbox at work as a giant repository rather than a useful tool, this is a huge step for me. Since I
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Panic
Some of you may have noticed that if you tried to get here without typing www, you got an error from TypePad. Well, now having followed their directions to fix it, this problem is solved. I now, however, can’t access my sweetblogomine email, or my Gothamist email, which is linked up to it. I am
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Nerd Alert
I got my hot new laptop this weekend. I’ve had my previous computer for about six years — it was time for it to go, but it has served me well. With my return to the corporate world came a return of a lovely phenomenon which I had all but forgotten — the end-of-the-year bonus.