September 2009
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GTD with OWA
Relying on Microsoft Outlook Web Access without Internet Explorer can be tiresome — being served a static web application that would have annoyed even in 1996 — but it is kind of relaxing too: the effort of constantly logging in and taming the horrible interface to get to your mail is a real motivator to get some actual work done.
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“Your request to not receive promotional emails about your subscription has been...”
– FT.com customer service: 10 working days to unsubscribe from your mailing list? That’s crazy fast! They must be using some kind of “computer”. Amazing…
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Attractive piracy
The problem with internet piracy is obvious: downloading illegal materials is easier, cheaper, faster and the acquired content is more portable, than with any legal alternative. The solution would be to close the gap between the desirability of illegal versus legal content distribution from the consumer’s perspective.
Too bad then, that the music and movie industries take the...
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Subversion branching
The main reason why developers should use Git for versioning is cheap, cheap branching. But in Subversion it isn’t so hard that you shouldn’t use it. Here’s a basic bugfix branch workflow. First, create your branch:
svn copy /path/trunk\
/path/branches/my-new-branch\
-m "Create my new branch"
svn switch /path/branches/my-new-branch
Of course, /path/ is easy...
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“In many ways, history should be regarded as a globalizing mass medium in the...”
– P. Fritzsche, Stranded in the Present
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Distribution of Academic Literature
Here’s how I get my academic literature these days:
Let a teacher e-mail me a Microsoft Word file with references.
Print the file
Go to the library, look up the titles and wait an hour before fellow students return them.
Copy the required pages on dead tree (single-sided).
Go home and scan in the dead tree.
Archive the digital article on my computer, ready to read from screen.
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