Stuff that’s interested me lately… June 10, 2008
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A friend of mine on Twitter sent me an invite to a new product I’ve wanted to try called Dropbox. It’s the best online file storage system I’ve tried in a long time – and I’ve tried most others by now such as xDrive and MyDocs. Dropbox is a very fast and easy install, and the file synchronization is better than most others offer. Dropbox also allows you to publicly offer files or create folders/files and send links to your friends for easy sharing.
I’ve also been playing with FeedJumbler as a way to create single RSS feeds from multiple feeds. It works pretty well and offers some features not offered by other tools of its kind, but I’m not crazy about how none of them make it very easy to add or remove source feeds.
The Yankees are having a terrible season, and NHL hockey just ended. Good thing some new shows are starting this summer and I have a ton of movies to watch! Two favorites – new seasons of 30 Days and Mad Men have started or will be starting soon.
I finally broke down and bought a ‘new’ 80GB Classic iPod. It IS brand new, but it’s hardly the newest model anymore. I love it. I have my entire music collection and a ton of podcasts and 2-3 seasons of TV shows – such as the first seasons of 30 Days, Rome, and The Tudors.
Great video from the Onion News Network: I want to share this great video from the Onion News Network. If you don’t watch their videos, be sure to start because you’re missing some of their best content. Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The Past:
Getting caught up… June 16, 2006
Posted by krislynch in Uncategorized.Tags: Dexter, iPod, new office, New York Yankees, Steven Covey
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I can’t believe I haven’t posted in so long. I do this sort of work for a living (create web sites, configure blogs, boards, etc.) so I suppose it’s common for your own projects to end up on the back burner.
Everything’s been going pretty well over the past few months. I feel at home in the new office. It’s really a nice atmosphere. That’s not to say it comes without its own challenges. What’s important is these are all good changes and challenges and every type of worthwhile change requires some growth (and growing pains).
One really nifty benefit to come out of this arrangement is that I’ve become closer to some people I already knew who work in the building. Even though some of the people in this building drive me nuts, I honestly really LIKE most of them. There are an awful lot of people out there in the work force who can’t say that so I consider myself very fortunate.
I also like my nice not-so-new-anymore office. This isn’t such a great photo because the office is just cramped enough to make it tough to take a good picture from INSIDE the office. Oddly, the office itself isn’t cramped at all. It’s very comfortable and large enough for me to feel at home here and have plenty of room to neatly store the stuff I need to do whatever it is I do.
Our department has also changed – for the better. Two coworkers I long considered dead weight have left and there is just no comparison between these two and their replacements. We’ve really been fortunate to find some great new talent, and an added bonus that everyone here now seems to really enjoy working with each other. We’re all terribly busy but having fun so you just can’t beat that arrangement!
Since I’m adding photos, I suppose I should add a photo of the birthday boy. Dexter is 3 years old today so it’s only fitting that he gets a special birthday wish here. This is one of my all-time favorite pictures of him because this is the day we met and he has the silliest striped legs I had ever seen.
Dexter should have been named Pester but he’s a great little boy and he’s sweet and adorable and smart and in spite of all the sleep he’s cost me, I still wouldn’t trade him for the world.
It seems the Yankees are managing to remain in the lead of the AL East, but they sure haven’t been playing anywhere near their potential, so it should be interesting to see what they can do once they are healthy and get their pitching together.
I just finished listening to ‘John Adams’ on my iPod. The book was really pretty good so I recommend it if you enjoy historical biographies. I’m also listening to Steven Covey’s ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ and I’m about to give up on it. I’ve listened to the past 5 hours and thought I was almost done and then realized I only read PART ONE of the book. There’s just no way I can listen to another 7+ hours. This is unfortunate because the content itself is useful, but it’s so dry! I haven’t heard anything in the first 5 hours that didn’t sound way too serious and antiseptic. A textbook would honestly be more fun to read. I can’t blame the narrator either because it’s the author. I find myself wondering how HE read the book aloud for so many hours and never noticed this himself!
