Tim on June 19th, 2008

Ran across this story about sending email via snail.
I hope everyone can find some humor in this, but the Computer Scientist in me finds it awesome. It’s non-deterministic email, via snail — almost a Rube Goldberg machine. This system would give total plausible deniability, “but I sent it last month!”

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Tim on June 5th, 2008

I just forwarded an email asking for an RFP around to the team at Cloudspace, and since I use address book autocomplete, I checked the email addresses very carefully before sending the email. I’ve heard of (and seen) too many instances where someone quickly sent an email, and addressed it to the wrong person. Funny […]

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Tim on June 4th, 2008

If you’re talking to someone, you have to pay attention to make sure they’re understanding you. This goes one-on-one, as well as speaking to a group. Communication is two-way.
Saw a nifty feature of meetup.com, a site that gets helps manage group meetings, from programmers to political rallies. I go to a PHP meetup in Orlando […]

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