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Is it the 5th already?
Jan. 5th, 2010 11:29 pmI sent out two small jobs this morning and accepted a longer-term item that doesn't need its deadline. Meanwhile, Galina went out to look at tile for the bathrooms.
I put a major dent in Lee Child's One Shot on Sunday, getting more than 300 pages through the thing before deciding to call it a night and go to sleep. I found the plot "hook" to be fascinating (an ex-sniper is accused of a mass shooting, all the evidence is against him, and the investigator he asks the cop in charge to find - Jack Reacher, the hero of several of Child's books - has good reason to believe the suspect is guilty as sin), and finished the book yesterday evening.
Otherwise, I've been going through my mail and trying to whittle unread messages down to manageable size, while trying to maintain some sang froid with regard to why I might be interested in keeping some older emails at all (like the one that reminds me to renew my membership in the Internet Chess Club). I've also penciled in notes on rules to filter out unwanted stuff completely and shove it into the proverbial bit-bucket unseen and unread. (I've found that "unsubscribing" often results in even more spam in my inbox, as there is apparently some commercial value to selling the names of email recipients that actually open and read mail, even if it is only to find the "unsubscribe" link.)
Apropos of email, I've verified that The Bat! handles IMAP synchronization the way I expect (in effect, making a backup copy of my emails) and that the "portable" USB version of the program encrypts the mail database, minimizing any potential impact of losing the USB drive (or having it stolen). (Unfortunately, I'm not an "under-the-hood" expert in such things, so I can't assess how well encryption is implemented, but at least the mail is not stored as plain text!)
Time to hit the sack. It's been a quiet day, but a long one.
Cheers...
I put a major dent in Lee Child's One Shot on Sunday, getting more than 300 pages through the thing before deciding to call it a night and go to sleep. I found the plot "hook" to be fascinating (an ex-sniper is accused of a mass shooting, all the evidence is against him, and the investigator he asks the cop in charge to find - Jack Reacher, the hero of several of Child's books - has good reason to believe the suspect is guilty as sin), and finished the book yesterday evening.
Otherwise, I've been going through my mail and trying to whittle unread messages down to manageable size, while trying to maintain some sang froid with regard to why I might be interested in keeping some older emails at all (like the one that reminds me to renew my membership in the Internet Chess Club). I've also penciled in notes on rules to filter out unwanted stuff completely and shove it into the proverbial bit-bucket unseen and unread. (I've found that "unsubscribing" often results in even more spam in my inbox, as there is apparently some commercial value to selling the names of email recipients that actually open and read mail, even if it is only to find the "unsubscribe" link.)
Apropos of email, I've verified that The Bat! handles IMAP synchronization the way I expect (in effect, making a backup copy of my emails) and that the "portable" USB version of the program encrypts the mail database, minimizing any potential impact of losing the USB drive (or having it stolen). (Unfortunately, I'm not an "under-the-hood" expert in such things, so I can't assess how well encryption is implemented, but at least the mail is not stored as plain text!)
Time to hit the sack. It's been a quiet day, but a long one.
Cheers...
