October 2009 Archives

Going Google...Completely

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Five different e-mail accounts that I know of. More than 450 RSS feeds. Over 2,000 calendar items and tasks. They now reside under a single Google account. I'm not brave enough just yet to consolidate all incoming calls to Google Voice.

Manually consolidating and uploading old e-mail to Gmail took about two days. Outlook 2007 was nice when it was a solid local-copy alternative to nebulous cloud computing. The days of a single UNIX e-mail account with several aliases are gone--especially when so much incoming data must be processed continuously and organized with a method that offers some continuity.

I am Dayhawk. And I'm free of Outlook.

But I cannot let go of FeedDemon, arguably the most versatile RSS aggregator out there. In its ad-supported version 3.0, NewsGator has switched the synchronization service to Google Reader. Another reason for this week-long consolidation process.

After about a week of relying solely on Google for data mining, aggregating and processing, I feel like a new person. No more bulky Outlook to enslave me. Just Google and me.

Self-Cleaning Toilet Off the Autobahn

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While rushing to Schleswig from Frankfurt, Shelly paid twice for the rest stop toilet. The first time to pee, the second time to videotape this cool technology. Why don't we have this cool technology at the local Texaco?

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