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• Moved Servers This means the heavy lifting of moving garrickvanburen.com to a new server, and the firstcrackpodcast to it’s own domain is complete (finally). If anythings not working as expected, please drop me a line. Thanks. Two things I’ve noticed already: The forums haven’t migrated yet, I thought I’d take this opportunity to try and solve the spam problem
• Fore Tim Brunelle passed me the baton 4 jobs I’ve had (and would be even less good at today): graphic design laser printer repair baling hay hand-milking sick cows 4 places I’ve been (and anxiously await returning): Brussels Hamburg All those waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge That hill I used to spend winter afternoons hiking up and snowboarding down. 4 bands or artists I am listening
• Back From the Holiday The Work Better Weblog is back up and better than ever after a quick Holiday rebuild. Thanks to all the loyal readers for standing by during the past few days.
• Systems Don’t Inherently Change Behavior “One of the things I find most vexing is the implicit idea that acquiring a system is all you need to take care of a problem….that you’re going to be more organized because you have a PDA.” - Merlin Mann MP3 of Merlin Man’s Inbox Zero Talk @ Google And from the Q & A session: “Everytime you
• Are Some RSS Formats More Reliable/Faster than Others? via Twitter, I was asked the above question. It’s a good question, cutting to the core of my ambivalence over the religious wars between RSS, Atom, etc. The flavor of XML a feed is published in shouldn’t matter. Neither to the publisher nor the receiver. Any parser able to handle multiple flavors should be able to