Month: September 2006

LifeHacker featured a number of posts with GMail tricks and tips over the time. Now they’ve done this one last effort into combining links to all those articles in one single post. This is your bookmark of the year – Gmail Tips and Tricks Monster Roundup

The Cyber-Knowledge weblog has a pretty good roundup of cool ways you can take advantage of your Gmail account.

Since we’ve covered most of Cyber-Knowledge’s tips here before, I decided it was time to put together our own Gmail roundup.

I am about to explode. And it has nothing to do with food. It’s rather information-related. So much is happening around me right now that I can barely take it. Changes are happening in my life as well as in lives of many people around me. These changes are (or seem to be) totally independent of each other, yet they are so connected to one another that it’s almost unbelievable. Especially considering the wide range of changes – from personal to professional.

And do you know what’s the worst thing about it? It’s that I can’t blog about it all. I talk to some of you about bits and pieces. But that’s just not the same. And it …aargh… it kills me. Because I can’t make up my own mind about many things without discussing them with others, and I can’t discuss them with others because so many people are involved in all of it on so many levels.

Now… this is about as much as I can tell you…

Here are a few more tips for becoming a better writer. Blogger even.

Care about one reader — real or fictional.

By the way, that blogger vs. writer thingy – Heather, who IS an excellent writer, has recently mentioned it.

Somehow this led into a discussion about what I do for a living, and I suddenly realized that I have a hard time telling people that I am a writer. I’m always saying that I have a website, or that I write things online, but I’m reluctant to use the word WRITER because when it comes out of my mouth it sounds like I’m pleading with someone to PLEASE TAKE ME SERIOUSLY. It also makes me sound like I’m fond of wearing fedoras and plaid capes. And beige orthopedic shoes that smell like cabbage.

Here are a few tips on how to fight the writer’s block (again). Looks like this is first part in the series.

Writing is easy, it’s quality that’s hard. Any idiot who knows 5 words can write a sentence (e.g. “Dufus big much Scott is”). It might be grammarless, broken, or inaccurate but it is writing.

Also, while you’re at it, note how good the writing is.