Keepin' on keepin' on...

A six-thousand word assignment just walked in the DSL connection. The translation is due in ten days, but practically speaking, I need to do them ASAP. I figure about 2K words tonight and the rest tomorrow.

Between this new assignment and the stuff I did late last week, October will be off to a good start, and since I'm going to be hors de combat, so to speak, as I travel to Toronto, Long Island, and back home, the more work now, the better.

* * *There's an interesting essay titled Picking Neither of Two Evils at LewRockwell.com. I'm not sure I buy the whole enchilada, but large parts of it make sense.

In the meantime, I should get ready to go to the store.

Cheers...

Twice as good as gmail...

I forget how I first ran across the site, but somewhere around a year ago I found fastmail.fm, which offers a Web-based e-mail solution that, for $40 per year, will provide you with 2 GB of e-mail storage, 3 GB of monthly e-mail bandwidth, 250 MB of file storage, and 750 MB of file bandwidth. And that's without analyzing your mail to see what ads to display, nor holding on to mail even if you've deleted it, as with gmail. Considering how I have clients send me assignments via e-mail, that extra level of "privacy" is appreciated.

As an additional plus, I found out recently that if you enable HTML viewing through their Web interface, the default will disable graphics and forms, which tends to make such viewing a bit safer. This is in addition to a spam filter that -- well, I can't tell how well it works, because I don't know how many spam messages are sent to my inbox, except to say that only a handful of such messages get through... maybe a half dozen per month.

It's getting to the point where I'm seriously thinking of making some fundamental changes to the way I do e-mail, since when I am on the road, I do about 90% of my e-mail through the fastmail.fm site (though with a different domain name).

Cheers...