In my morning reading, I came across a “ten things about geeks” post. (I won’t get into the source, but if you know which one I read, go ahead and giggle to yourself.) In the ten “reasons” I saw the following …
a geek has no problem accepting that sometimes you want mocha ripple cherry fudge [...]

I read this article and thought - WOW, I actually do these things ! (Of course, once I got over myself, I thought about why I do these things and the counter argument of “information overload in the inbox”.)

Use your e-mail inbox as the point of entry for all tasks
Categorize your tasks
First thing each day, [...]

I use a Thinkpad X60. I love the ultraportable form factor. I especially like it when I travel as the long battery and small size makes a light bag!
The down side to the X60 is the screen. I miss the screen real estate of my home desk monitor. I’ve been trying out various methods of [...]

For years, I’ve used “spoken” prompts for my cellphone as well as various computer alerts. Most of these have been created using the text-2-speech demo from AT&T.
Today, I entered “Welcome to theSalmonFarm blog.” What I got was something very different. Given I had chosen a British female voice, the results sounded very much like a [...]