I just love Lotus Notes. Not.

God, could I have had a worse day with Notes. All bitching aside, and despite the fact that I hate Microsoft, Outlook 2007 rocked as a mail client (despite the suckiness of Exchange Server).
In other news, I am trying to understand my company’s deployment of Web 2.0. Being a vast company there are vast contradictory/complimentary/confusing [...]

Web 2.0 Update…

I am still struggling with some of this web2.0-ish stuff regarding calendars especially. Seems that iCal deleted a couple of appointments (to the annoyance of the appointees) during this whole exercise
I sure wish I could get consistent sync’ing b/w iCal and Google Calendar – for me it is only in the iCal -> [...]

RSS Feeds, etc

I spent some time looking at various options for news that work on the Mac and the iPod Touch (haven’t bought the iPhone 3G yet but soon, very soon…) and have settled on NetNewsWire. It took a while to massage all the feeds I had in Firefox and Google Reader, but I have finally got [...]

Off on vacation…assorted musings

I am off for two weeks with the wife and kid at La Tranche sur Mer in the Vendée. Some projects I plan for early September (so please come back soon
- More soft topics (what I am reading non-professionally)
- More technical stuff as well
- More playing with widgets
Trying to figure out what tool [...]

Tools and Gadgets (and GTD)

I know, Fino get with the program, but I just heard this GTD (getting things done) term on Lifehacker this week. Sounds like a career of conferences from a certain David Allen and reminds me a little of the 7 Habits craze from Steven Covey back in the nineties. Apparently, this article in Wired magazine [...]

My long road to Web 2.0

In an effort to update my brain to the new millenium, I have been heavily investing this summer in getting up to speed with what I perceive as Web 2.0 stuff. Here’s where I have gotten to so far:
1/ RSS feeds: I aggregated all my RSS feeds (and by degrees of separation by links on [...]