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Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts (56)
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Like thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmail’s unexpected 2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent a few into a Dark Afternoon of the Soul that most 19th-century Romantic poets would have found a bit histrionic. Now, as a user, polemicist, and nemesis of Apple’s MobileMe problems, I’m not here to criticize the frustration about a broken cloud service; I ...Shared by adam king / sabbatical™ (8) AJ (154) Alec Peden (6) Andrew (0) Ben (8) Bill (2) btvillarin (5) Chris Miller (1) Christopher Gillespie (4) Chuqui (5) Corvida (60) Craig Maloney (3) d0t (4) daliu (1) danliebke (47) Darkwookiee (1) Dave Arter (9) DavidS (23) EJ (9) Firethorn (11) Floyd (3) hank (2) Jack Baty (4) Jay (44) jbrauer (1) Jennifer Sardam (3) Jeroen (1) kevin (0) kfc (6) mcphee (5) Michael Nally (3) Mike (0) Mitch (1) Mitch (0) Nathan (0) Nick (0) Paul Jacobson (14) Pete Williams (0) Peter (2) peteresch (2) pflix (1) pilgrimjohn (2) powlow (15) q burns abstract message (4) ravi (12) Roberto (3) Ross (4) Scott (5) terrym (9) Theresa Irwin (0) ThinkHammer (0) Todd (2) Todd Mundt (50) True Tech Life (0) vergil66 (1) xgdfalcon (1)Explore read seven notes- Christopher Gillespie said: Merlin Mann gives a great synopsis of the Getting Things Done scheme. It's been a great time saver for me.
- Jack Baty said: Ahh sanity
- Nick said: Amen! Seriously, it's a FREE service, can people really bitch if it's down for a couple hours. I think they should schedule 2 hours down every day to get people focused on more important things.
- ravi said: Merlin has pearls of wisdom on GTD. Must read
- Craig Maloney said: For those of you who survived the GMail outage of 8/11/08.
- Dave Arter said: Pretty inspiring... I really should learn how to Get Things Done.
- ThinkHammer said: I was in my @Errands context and thus largely oblivious to the outage. This is a great recommendation to be ready to flip contexts in your GTD life.
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Gmail Outage or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love GTD Contexts (27)
onLike thousands of people yesterday, I was annoyed and inconvenienced by Gmail’s unexpected 2-hour dirtnap. But, wow. Apparently, it just irrevocably hijacked the whole day for some folks. And even sent a few into a Dark Afternoon of the Soul that most 19th-century Romantic poets would have found a bit histrionic. Now, as a user, polemicist, and nemesis of Apple’s MobileMe problems, I’m not here to criticize the frustration about a broken cloud service; I ...Shared by Andrew (0) Bill (2) Chris Miller (1) Chuqui (5) d0t (4) Darkwookiee (1) EJ (9) jbrauer (1) Jeroen (1) kevin (0) mcphee (5) Mike (0) Mitch (1) Mitch (0) Nathan (0) Pete Williams (0) Peter (2) pflix (1) pilgrimjohn (2) powlow (15) q burns abstract message (4) Roberto (3) Scott (5) terrym (9) ThinkHammer (0) Todd (2) xgdfalcon (1)Contribute comment
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- mamelouk said: chais pas si c'est parce que je viens de me lever mais ce xkcd m'as fait péter de rire
- Nikos Kouremenos said: kalo
- Alex said: So true.
- choffee said: We have all got something similar from Google maps.
- Federico Pistono said: "swim across the atlantic ocean" evolved...
- heidigoseek said: xkcd rocks today!
- Anne said: Why I don't use Google Maps...
- Pierre Phaneuf said: I blame James.
- Sean said: ... I think I followed these directions once. The spectral wolf was named Frank...
- vevck said: Awesome!!!
- lalui said: Potrei affermare che è successo un sacco di volte pure ammè :-)
- Ken Hunt said: a classic xkcd
- StartX said: google maps is both amazing and frightening
- haggaret said: Nice!
- Michael Sallmen said: At least they weren't traveling with kids!
- Razzu said: :D
- Mike said: That's pretty funny!
- Greg D said: I wish more directions included "Godspeed"
- Jeffrey said: Google Maps is amazing.
- Rick Dillon said: Legendary awesome.
- parkylondon said: genius
- Sharath said: I wonder whether my "lvl 6 Force of Nature" is sufficient to master the wolf..
- Christopher Gillespie said: Hilarious. iPhone Google Maps is not flawless.
- CKL said: Which reminds me: The Three Amigos is a great flick.
- androcles said: LOL!!
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Sour Apple: How an Apple ad sets the wrong expectations (43)
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As much as I respect Apple, Unslow, one of their new iPhone 3G television ads, has me wondering how they kept a straight face when they put this on the air. Try to follow along with your own iPhone 3G: Web pages load immediately. GPS picks up instantly. Files download about 3x faster than I’ve ever seen a file download — even over wi-fi. I don’t think standing on top of a 3G tower antenna ...Shared by Abe (0) Andrew Ruess (94) Andy (0) Brandon (2) Bruce (2) chris (21) Chris (2) danliebke (47) Dave "Blakice" Matthews (0) Dedalus (16) diwakergupta (4) fmanjoo (0) g b (28) Gregory Go (19) HejGustav (7) Jonathan (16) JonMoss-theappleofmyi (30) Kenneth (5) Lance Fisher (1) Matthew (5) mattpovey (1) Mike (0) Mike F (355) Nathan (0) niels (3) Nirav (10) Paul Helmick (24) Paulo Pereira (5) plosson (8) Ralph (4) Raphael Lullis (6) Robert Conn (6) Rodrigo Leme (2) Satya (7) Shane Conder (2) Snowmit (0) Solon (7) Stephen Glauser (23) Tim (16) Todd (14) Umesh (9) Vulpes (1) winzy (0)- Matthew said: Err, its AN ADVERT! They have 15-30secs to get an idea over. Grow up guys.
- Paulo Pereira said: in your face, iphags
- Snowmit said: The video at the bottom is great.
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Agile Project Planning (9)
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Projects are a necessary evil :-) But necessary they are.Some people really feel the need to understand precisely what the project will cost and exactly long it will take. If this is the basis for investment, of course that's a completely understandable feeling.For years, traditional waterfall projects have been sold on the false pretense that projects are predictable. Plannable. Of course the reality is, projects are highly unpredictable, and - sadly - that's why so ...Shared by Bijou (12) BluesForPablo (18) John H (6) Kurt (0) Lenny (9) Les (5) Martin Hall (13) Matt (3) Nathan (0)Contribute comment -
Google Employees Pose for Street View (54)
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For the latest Google Maps Street View update, Google not only added pics for Australia, Japan and several US cities, but also included imagery of what seem to be Google employees lining up near-by the Google headquarters. This is similar to an older Street View posing but larger in scale: The baby dangling incident An allegory for the eternal struggle between project management, development and design... “Compiling” The Street View icon dude “Dad what’s a ...Shared by AJ (154) antidigerati (4) Archit T (8) Azeem (35) bodzasfanta (19) Brenton (5) Caleb (16) Carlos Pinto (5) Chris Ryall (4) Christian (44) CKL (5) Corvida (60) Dami (0) defcon (13) dknowles (5) dobata (303) DOCBook Howto (97) Erik Arvidsson (4) Eugene (11) Farzin (12) focoma (12) Galtenbergs (4) Jason R. Hunter (21) Jeff (1) Jess Lee (4) Jonathan (1) Jrod (58) kara (0) Kristian (31) Lari Numminen (0) Laughing Squid (13) Laurie (10) Lorenzo (2) louisgray (111) marchbox (12) MiramarMike (19) Monsur (0) Nathan (0) Nirav (10) Ontario Emperor (49) Pedro Silva (8) Phreak 2.0 (44) prattmic (9) Rick Turoczy (62) Robert van Bregt (0) Sai Gudigundla (9) Sai Prasad Kothapalle (8) sidhezero (2) sparrowsmith (0) Tamar Weinberg (21) Tanath (34) tobalito (1) Toomore (3) Voyagerfan5761 (15)Explore read six notes- marchbox said: 还有几个Webgroup的同事！
- Jeff said: You can see me, holding Fred the Iguana, here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=75.908504,102.041016&ie=UTF8&ll=37.426045,-122.081001&spn=0.010633,0.018797&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=37.420717,-122.081483&panoid=rvWdNsnN-zEkNPer5t4lRQ&cbp=2,359.7180013666168,,0,14.161646687825415
- DOCBook Howto said: They so needed a guy dressed up as Waldo for this ;)
- Sai Gudigundla said: What an interesting way of proposing...
- Erik Arvidsson said: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=googleplex,+mountainview&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=39.047881,79.101563&ie=UTF8&t=h&layer=c&cbll=37.420706,-122.081322&panoid=5saz57T4p4bN_M5d5rFSdw&cbp=1,19.831406161604946,,2,5.956761582529435&ll=37.423736,-122.080851&spn=0.016717,0.026178&z=16
- Sai Prasad Kothapalle said: Folks... let me join :)
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How Image-to-Text Could Be Used in Google Street View (19)
onGoogle Street View’s photo data could be used for more than just plain showing it to users. Internally, Google could do some image analysis – like OCR, optical character recognition, to convert text contained in the images of the houses, shops and so on to text. Such text could be utilized for several things: Google could be able to make the streets searchable through a normal text input box. If a club is called “Foobar” ...Shared by AJ (154) Allison (0) Brenton (5) Charlie (3) Chris Thomson (3) defcon (13) Elias Bizannes (1) guercheLE (5) Joel (0) Jrod (58) ketszeri (8) Lu Tao (2) lxb (9) Mike F (355) Nathan (0) Priyadarsan Venugopalan (7) Sinan Yüce (1) ultraviolet (34) Uno (5)Contribute comment
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Infinitube (13)
onInfinitube plays back YouTube videos non-stop. Search for “google”, for instance, and sit back to watch one video after another without having to press the play button again or navigate. The site suggests this can be useful “while you have a meal, do some work, or have a conversation with a boring friend”. Be aware that your search queries may pop up on the site’s public “recent video searches” list. Infinitube went online in July ...Shared by Charles (0) Chris (1) ema (3) macbeach (1) Mike F (355) Murali (2) Nathan (0) Niko (21) Núria (0) Phuller10 (21) Remi (1) rOckY (113) yaron (0)
- Chris said: search for David Hasselhoff
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Delicious.com Relaunches with 1,000-Character Notes Fields (36)
onOh happy day — the new Delicious is here In the years since del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo! it’s been hard to get why it remained such a red-headed stepchild. Despite an unbelievable lead in both mindshare, functionality, and ease-of-use (yeah, it’s been my preferred bookmarker for years), del.icio.us seemed to sit there while a dozen social bookmarking sites lapped it with fancier designs and (mostly superfluous) new features. Yay, Yahoo. Today Y! revealed a ...Shared by Adam S (3) Alec Peden (6) Alpha (1) Brian (1) Chris (0) dobata (303) Eugene (11) Gienah Ghurab (14) Ingar (4) James (8) Jeff Daly (42) Jeton (5) Kim (6) krispijn (3) lghuffman (5) Matthew (1) Matthew Bischoff (29) Miguel Caetano (42) Mike McBride (1) mndoci (29) Mohammad Behdad (6) Mrs S (5) Nathan (0) Nick Nogueira (13) Phil (0) Picketwire (6) powlow (15) ppip (6) Rachael (1) Seth Anderson (10) SFSlim (8) Shack (15) Stephen Hood (8) Vincenzo (45) whatevernevermind (8) ziqbalbh (8)
- Chris said: This is awesome.
- Picketwire said: Merlin on the best part of the new Delicious.com--1,000 character notes fields. To my minds,this makes del.icio.us a self-contained linkblog platform.
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Alpha, Beta, and Sometimes Gamma (46)
