OFI, as I recently learned, stands for Opportunity For Improvement. A few times over the last couple weeks, my GMail account has suddenly been suspended. The warning displayed is something like this: If we detect abnormal usage that may indicate that your address has been compromised, we may temporarily disable access. It will take between [...]
The Lights. Camera. Help Festival is happening again this year, and if you live in Austin or are visiting in the last few days of July, you should get some tickets and go. Why? First, altruism aside, it’s an interesting, engaging event. Last year just by sitting on my tookus for a few hours I [...]
As an English major, the bulk of my internship applications were editing jobs at publishing companies or magazines. I thought I was a pretty strong candidate for these jobs, and that I would certainly get one of them, but apparently the hundreds of other English majors at UT desperate for jobs in their field had [...]
I’m getting some heavy-handed guilt trips for missing their talk last night at the Austin Social Media Club, but it’s a great concept and a fine thing to have in Austin. Also, the graphic and arresting “Fowl Play,” at last year’s screenings, put us firmly on the path of not buying eggs anymore. Here’s their [...]
My email management process is a source of pride. It’s not the best in the world, but it works very well for me. It borrows a lot from Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero ouvre, and I’m sure many more neat tricks have been implemented by the community than by moi. It all starts with GMail. There [...]
