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Hidden in Plain Sight
by Andrew McCaskey
Mobile after a very long trip – early morning thunderstorms in Chicago, two hours of flight delay and then a missed flight and the drama that always surrounds fully booked aircraft and lots of passengers on standby. Finally caught a seat about four hours later than normal – and I was one of the lucky ones !
Lots of time in Concourse C, and at least some initial success with with the PublicVPN account. Once I was able to get connected to the access point and then connect to T-mobile , the VPN came up in about fifteen seconds. It wil be interesting to see how it performs when the Gnomedex crew of three hundred connects again. Most conferences you are lucky to go home with a T-shirt from a product demo. At this conference, you pay up front for your Tee-shirt but you get your own power strip and this year – not one but two dedicated T1′s for the assembled multitude. Sounds like the whole thing was planned by a bunch of geeks, podcasters and videopodcasters.. As in fact it was. There will be a lot of material coming your way in the next few days.
Sometimes there is a bonus hiding in plain sight. On this trip, I was catching up on the Antipodean Podcast on the 20Gb iPod. Mark Bradley is a fellow TPN Network member – and while trying to adjust the volume I ended up cycling the center button a few times while it was playing – and lo and behold – Show Notes ! I am not sure if it is a function of the iPod that has been there all along, or a nice new feature of the latest firmware upgrade – but it seems to be picking up show notes from many podcasts – including SDR. It’s there on One-Minute Tip and Nosilla Podcast as well.As I mentioned yesterday,
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Recent Items Mentioned:
Inbox Zero: One of the guideposts along the way will be some articles from the excellent site for personal productivity at 43 Folders , specifically an article entitled “My email diet” in the Inbox Zero – Day 1series.
From the 43Folders Inbox Zero process, I’m learning that these tools are no substitute for ruthless triage of escalating questions:
1. What does this message mean to me and why do I care ?
2. What action, if any, does this message require of me ?
3. What’s the most elegant way to close out this message and the nested action it contains ?
These questions were most valuable getting from 400 to 100 items. After that, the default
Outlook folder “Unread Items” kept the new stuff in one place – just reading headers and sender lines for easy zapping
The free 40 page downloadable e-Book from Rajesh Setty, a fellow Gnomedexer.. “Personal Branding for Technology Professionals”, It’s some heavy reality for anyone in the technology arena – especially the IT field or pure technologists.
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