I was reading Joel on Software the other day and he talked about a rumor that one of the reasons that Windows Vista release was extremely inconsistent and unpolished was that the testing was fully automated (or left brain). There was no traditional (whole brain) testing where the tester not only runs the software through […]

Tim O’Reilly blog post on Chinese fast growth and pollution in his Chinese Foo Camp review made me think of the book “Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update” which I just got. If you haven’t seen it it is an analysis and computer models of where our current world is going with all the growth […]

Why do I see some emails that have my default email address and/or says “On behalf of (my name)”. Yikes. Not sure why some emails show this and others don’t. And I just realized that some mailing lists that I respond to will not let me send to it because I’m either not on the […]

You know when you select “conversations” in your inbox. I click on, say 4, so that I can “mark as read”. Then I want to un-check those “conversations”, but Gmail doesn’t seem to have a way to un-click them. There’s a “star” and “unstar” option, but not the un-check option. So far, I’ve been un-checking […]

Since I started to point all my emails to my Gmail account, I figured I’d need some kind of filtering system. Here’s what I was able to accomplish within minutes: 1. New filter- fields are labeled without confusion 2. Test run- depending on the fields you filled, you can run a test to see what […]

I configured all my emails to come to my Gmail account. I have three main emails and not only do I get them all in one place (filtered in their corresponding folders), I set up the account to respond with the email address it was originally sent to. Does this make sense? Hope so. I […]

When the day starts, I take my planner, pad of paper, pen, and clear mind to my Manager’s office to “check in” and “follow up” on new and existing tasks. I try to get in a bit earlier so that I can check email, talk to the developers, and review project information. All this, to […]

I read about a new search engine called Mahalo (“thank you” in Hawaiian) in Fast Company. Is it using some fancy algorithm to beat Google or more powerful servers to power the search? No. Mahalo uses people to do the searching. At first it seems kind of web -1.0 but perhaps there is something to […]

OMG Google maps now lets you drag the blue route line to customize your route!! Very cool use of Ajax – it updates the directions text as you drag the blue line on the map! And you can even move the start and end points with the mouse too. I love it! Here is an […]

Google Gears Is Google Gears (an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript API) a competitor to Adobe AIR? According to the google website http://gears.google.com/ It will let you: Store and serve application resources locally Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database Run asynchronous Javascript to improve […]