Posts made in August, 2009

Is Plain Text The Best?

Posted on Aug 21, 2009 in blog, opinion, thinking

Some say that plain text is best. Who am I to complain? When something as simple as 140 characters is enough on Twitter to convey a message, or 160 characters for a mobile text message? We can communicate a lot with very little – and a very simple medium: plain text. So why are there so many contrasting opinions about using rich text in communications? Especially email? Email has become one of those communications tools that seem to raise the ire of the “plain text is best” crowd. Some folks just don’t appreciate the HTML emails or fancy formatting others put into...

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Happiness CCCXXVIII

Posted on Aug 21, 2009 in happiness

Learning something about myself: I’m not an IT guy anymore.

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Happiness CCCXXVII

Posted on Aug 5, 2009 in happiness

Building community is but one piece of a fulfilling day.

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Good Enough IV

Posted on Aug 3, 2009 in blog, computers & internet, hardware

It struck me today while using my netbook that economy computers have reached that baseline of being good enough at more than the minimum set of tasks. With their very portable size and impressively growing battery life these minimally powered laptops can meet the needs of many folks. The interesting thing to me is how we continuously discover how we really only need the basics. In the age when we’ve pushed computing hardware to levels that we never imagined, the utility of a basic computing platform is quite impressive. Because we’ve pushed the upper end so aggressively, the...

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Happiness CCCXXVI

Posted on Aug 3, 2009 in happiness

Change. Make it your motto.

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