Florida Storms
I have to admit, there’s some relief to not being in Florida any longer.
When the Support Page Doesn’t Help
I’ve been with HostGator for my web hosting since January 2014 when I left Dreamhost. I love them. I have a reseller account that lets me sell shared hosting (i.e., assign a cPanel instance to someone who wants their own self-supported shared hosting) or provide managed hosting services to clients through my own hosting account.…
How Slack Determines Whether To Send Notifications
Here’s a process map that reflects the process by which Slack determines whether or not it should send you a notification. Source: Reducing Slack’s Memory Footprint
Read Later Process
I use Pocket to store my “read later” articles that interest me as I peruse my Twitter timeline or browse the web. I’ve written about this process in the past. I tend to hoard articles for later reading; it’s a personal flaw that I readily admit. Unfortunately, between work and owning a toddler, I’ve noticed…
Apple’s Attachments
So this really where we are, huh?
Trump and the Lack of Resistance from GOP
Despite its name, this post isn’t actually a rant about Donald Trump. It’s actually just an admiring observation about our legal system in a tweet posted by one of my favorite people on Twitter. Nothing in our system is self-executing. Trump can transgress every law and custom we have until enough people summon the will…
Busy Month
It sure has been a busy New Year so far. January was especially hectic as we started to pack for our move to North Carolina in a few weeks. In addition to this, I headed down to Orlando to get my Scrum Product Owner certification, which involved a two-day course in managing product development in…
Thoughts About the Past Election
The world (or at least much of it) was caught off-guard a couple of weeks ago when millionaire reality TV actor Donald Trump won the US presidency. He ran on a platform of (what he describes as) success as a businessman and “draining the swamp,” or clearing out all the politicians in Washington DC so that the elitists won’t…
Weekly Planning & Review
Inarguably, one of the most important pieces of the GTD methodology for time and task management is the weekly review. This critical ritual involves the practitioner ensuring that inboxes are emptied, reviewing his or her lists and making necessary adjustments to projects and tasks so that contexts, priorities, next actions and other elements are accurate. All…
The Not-to-Do List — 7 Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Productivity
I saw an article recently that hit home with me. The article, titled The Not-to-Do List — 7 Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Productivity and Happiness , was written by John Meyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Lemonly. Here are Meyer’s seven recommendations for things you should stop doing, along with my thoughts: 1. Touching emails more…
Review: 1Password
I started using Siber System’s RoboForm Password Manager in 2007 after a colleague recommended it. I tried their free version briefly and then happily shelled out $20 for a license. Since then, I’ve had different passwords on sites and have increasingly made them more complex over the years. When I decided to leave RoboForm, mostly due to…