Wow…September already? Where does the time go?
With the time given to the commute and the lack of access at the office (since I do work for a firm which does have pretty tight internet access policies), I have decided that I cannot do the photo-a-day thing, so I am not going to be updating my photo website on a regular basis. Sorry about that, but then since I started back this summer, the traffic was not there.
On the topic of my last post, I have decided to keep most things in house for now. Calendaring is the biggest issue to crack.
I hope to be able to spend some time here documenting things, if nothing else for me. Maybe someone else will find them useful.
Peace,
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No, this is not about my job.
This is about my web sites, email, and my digital life. For years, I
have had my domain (duckland.org) and my email address there (duck), and
I am not going to give those up. I have collected a few others domains
over the years, and the family has started asking for their own as well.
Now, if you know me at all, you know that for most of my professional
career, I have been in Unix operations, specifically Linux. It is what
I do. But, I am wondering if it is time for me to 'outsource' one of
the more difficult parts of keeping my own domain: email. Recently, I
have gone back to not hosting my email due to various reasons, and went
back to GMail. In the years since I left it, it has gotten much
better UI for someone who likes keyboards over mice, and the Android
clients are very nice. Plus, the addition of **Google Now **in the
Chrome browser has been very handy.
Add to the fact I still cannot find a good calendar solution which I can
host which will work seamlessly across my computers (home and work),
tablets, and cell phones, as well as let the family share besides
Google, and it makes GMail very attractive.
But, on the other side, Google makes their money on ads, and they make
no secret that they analyze your email (GMail), your appointments
(Google Calendar), and your web browsing (Google Chrome) to try
to market to you better. I am still undecided if I want to keep
swimming up-stream or just give in and use the Google services, because
they will be better than anything I can set up on my own.
*sigh*
However, I have finally made another change to the blogging solution,
and I should be able to start writing more. I do have some ideas in a
back log to talk about.
